These players and coaches have shown the ultimate disrespect for our veterans and their families who have lost their husbands, wives, sons and daughters. You have no respect for this country and what it stands for. You are nothing but a traitor to the USA, as is anyone who supports these teams in any way. If the true Americans don’t insist these players and coaches are fired, this country is in a serious downward spiral and all that she stands for. You’re not protesting the president. He’s not at the game. You’re disrespecting our national heritage, our national rights and American pride. It’s the national anthem, not hail to the chief. Obviously, you don’t know the difference.

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Hi, Beep. This is for the Page coach who said he let his players make the decision about respecting our flag and country. Coach, you are a patsy – one who is easily manipulated, a sucker. I played on all three sports in high school, two sports in college. I played on three championship teams in college and went to the NAIA World Series. I am an NAIA All-Conference third baseman. We finished third in the nation in NAIA Baseball World Series. No coach ever let me make the decisions. Evidently, you know very little about discipline.

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Millionaires. Unbelievable. You know, fantasy football is exactly what the NFL’s engaging in. It’s their little adolescent fantasy if they think we give a darn about anything but the game. Start playing football or enjoy the drought the next four years.

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Yeah, I was just reading the Beep in last week’s issue. A caller said in there about the naive Trump supporters calling everything fake news, not believe in earthquakes and hurricanes. I’d just like to remind them, we do believe 100 percent in hurricanes, earthquakes and any other natural disasters. What we do not believe in is things that have no evidence except for rumors that are widespread such as, you know, just speculation. You got some proof, we’d love to see it. But if you don’t have any proof, then it’s just a rumor. Thank you very much.

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According to Fox News it took 72 minutes from the first 911 call for law enforcement to get to the Las Vegas shooter and kill him. Seventy two minutes. If I remember rightly, it took hours before the police stopped the shooter in the gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.  Hours. So let’s tell the truth about the government’s idea of protection.  Someone breaks into your home, you frantically dial for help from the people whose salaries you’ve been paying all these years, and you wait. In Detroit the average response time is nearly an hour. Perhaps we are expected to ask the criminal if he would like to sit down, have a cup of tea and wait for the cavalry to arrive. Meanwhile, in the real world, I suggest you do not rely on  government providing protection for your wife and sons and daughters. I suggest you buy a 357 Magnum. It might save your life one day, and theirs. Just sign me off as An Independent Thinker.

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Hello. I’m going to start this Sound of the Beep with a direct quote from your article by Scott Yost in last week’s issue. It says, quote, High Point leaders took most of the commissioners around the blighted downtown area earlier this year and showed them what a wasteland that area now is, quote, unquote. I’d like to know how an area that is ripe with upscale, medical offices, doctors’ – dentist’s offices and other upscale furniture market showrooms could possibly be considered a wasteland. In fact, the reason that the City of High Point is paying these property owners 300 to 400 percent of the current tax values of those properties is exactly because it’s not a wasteland in the least. It’s a very upscale area. And, then, the city is going to turn around and resell these properties to developers for no more, if even tax value. This whole thing is an absolute sham.

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Hi. I’m calling about the shooting that took place in Las Vegas. The first thing that Hillary Clinton does is gets on Twitter and starts talking about gun control. I would like to tell her, when she gives up her Secret Service that carries guns, you know, we’ll give up our guns. She has no right to come out and start talking about gun control. And neither do any of these senators up there that are Democrats need to start talking about gun control. That’s the first thing that comes out of their mouth every time something bad happens in America: gun control, gun control, gun control, just because somebody that might be mentally sick or something does something, they start gun control. There are people out here that carry guns that are responsible people. And all they start talking about is gun control.

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It’s Monday. Of course, I’m like everybody else, watching Fox News and what’s going on out in Las Vegas. But the very idea that the Democrats are trying to make something out of this about guns with Chicago, Illinois, people being killed by the hundreds and nobody has done anything about it on the Democrat side. And they’ve got a Democrat mayor. They don’t seem to know about that. Maybe Hillary Clinton never heard of Chicago. But I do not understand why they would jump on it with people grieving like it is, children being shot, some of them still probably going to pass away. And they’re talking about gun control. Give me a break.

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Editor, do you still think guns should be so easily accessible?

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It’s Oct. 3, and the Democrats keep on talking up on ways to stop this. If they can figure up a way to chain up the devil, I’d like to hear it. The man could use a truck just like they did overseas and done the same thing. Taking the guns away from people is not going to solve anything. It gets you in the headlines. Sounds good. But it won’t work. It absolutely will not work. There’s other ways of killing people. If a person wants to shoot people or run over them in a truck or fix sticks of dynamite and throw it out in a crowd, they’re going to do it. The devil is on the loose. Hillary Clinton doesn’t know that.

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President Trump’s travel ban on terrorist nations is always characterized by leftists as a ban on “predominantly Muslim countries,” which is correct. That’s because there is a strong correlation between Islam and terrorism. Liberals are engaging in character assassination by innuendo, implying that there is Islamophobia and bigotry behind the ban, rather than the clear need to protect ourselves from terrorists.  That’s the classic liberal M.O., of course – smearing the people they disagree with rather than debating the merits of the issue. And if they want to use that parameter to describe different countries, why do they never describe the US as a predominantly Christian nation? Just sign me off as An Independent Thinker.

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President Obama had in Congress law to make it harder for people to get guns and ammunition. Trump and the Republicans rolled that back. They got rid of that law because Obama put it in motion. So, now, thanks to Trump and the Republicans, they just made it easier for mentally ill people to get guns and ammunition. So, thank you, President Trump supporters.

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Yeah, the NRA gave Trump a big campaign contribution to get rid of half of these laws. So, since Trump got in office, he signed it away to make it easier for mentally ill people to get guns. It’s a fact. Look it up on Fact Check, you people that don’t believe it. And my heart goes out to Las Vegas massacre. My heart goes out to those people.

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It is Tuesday, and I am watching Trump in his departure for the partial day trip to Puerto Rico. Stops before boarding the Marine One helicopter for the news to speak with him while the background noise from the aircraft gives little chance for a proper Q&A for the press. It would be fitting if Air Force One could take off when he and Melania got off the plane at the military base leaving them to spend the night to possibly to stay at what is or was the ruins of the Cocoa Beach Golf and Country Club, which in 2015 the Trump organization filed a bankruptcy case.

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I’m 82 years old. And I’ve learned just a little bit after I got out of school. How can anybody that graduated college, a lot of them are lawyers, got elected to Congress and Senate, how do they think that you can make a law that can stop human behavior? That’s impossible. It sounds good. Make a law. Make a law. We’ll make one that don’t rain on Saturday on the golf course. Same thing. You can’t make a law to stop people from doing things. There’s a law on the books right now, I understand, that you can’t kill. There’s a penalty for killing. But that don’t bother anybody. But these Democrats, especially Hillary Clinton, thinks that you can make a law. And Schumer does too. And I’m sure Nancy Pelosi, I’m sure her and Pocahontas, the blonde-headed Indian with blue eyes, I’m sure they think we can make some kind of law to stop people doing this.

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Hello, Beep. I was taught not to hate anyone, but I despise Stephen Colbert. The air he breathed could be used for better things. But like I say, I don’t hate anyone. Southern Guilford here. Have a nice day.

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Hello. I hope this message gets into the Rhino Beep for this issue that it may be seen Oct. 12. I think that the politicians that are currently running for office should, on Oct. 12, attend the job fair, annual job fair, at the Coliseum, just to see how anemic our prospects are for employment in the area. In addition to that, the economic developers in our community should also be required to attend to really get an idea of what is real life and what is fantasy.

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If you’re a multimillionaire and you decide to open fire and mow down hundreds of people, all of your assets should go to your victims, down to the last penny. Southern Guilford and Otis here. And that’s not near enough.

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Hello. I’m calling about all these Democrats coming out asking for gun control because of what happened in Las Vegas. And Gabby Giffords, you know, I’d like to say this about her. I’m sorry about what happened to her, but the only time you ever see her come out, her and her husband come out, is when something like this happens. And I’d like to ask her, where are you about Chicago? Nobody is mentioning Chicago at all. Look at all that gun violence going on up there. All them mass shootings going on up there every day. Little children getting shot for just being outside, setting on the porch and playing. No Democrat is saying anything about Chicago at all. But, boy, they’re standing up there on the steps of the White House and the Senate and all that. And they’re talking about gun control. Where are they about Chicago?

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The Las Vegas shooting was a terrible, terrible tragedy. It’s a black mark in history that we don’t ever need to return to. It’s really, really sad. My heart goes out to the families and the victims. It’s so sad. It’s just unthinkable. One has to wonder what would spark someone to commit such a horrible crime. I think it’s possible that the liberal talk shows, the late-night media the way they continue to push their hate on conservatives and Mr. Trump, the hate that they continue with every day, every night, 24/7 since the election, and they will not stop. I think this is possibly a contributing factor.

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Yes, what I’d like to know is, I have called for the last two months and have reported about the thievery going on in Glenwood. You have refused to print it. And I would like to know why. Is it because of those fat cats setting up there on City Council that keeps you from it? The truth is the truth. And I called in because I thought the people of Glenwood should know about the thievery that’s going on. And I still think they should know. Something is not right, because you won’t print it. And I got a pretty good idea.

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Editor’s Note: We print as many calls as we have room for. Thanks to our new website, any beeps that cannot be run in the print version will appear at rhinotimes.com.

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It looks like the NFL is going to sacrifice one of their own, eat him alive or whatever. Everybody is taking a knee for that.

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Yes, I just got done watching the news concerning Cam Newton and his stupid mouth. When are the Panthers going to understand you cannot put stupid up in front of everybody. He just insulted a female reporter talking about routes. And thinking she doesn’t understand what she’s talking about. Then he stands up there with his big ugly smile like he’s somebody very highly intelligent. When are the Carolina Panthers going to understand? Every time he opens his mouth, stupid just falls out. Now Cam Newton has just lost a sponsor due to that. Dannon Yogurt has decided to end their sponsorship with Cam Newton saying, we share our concerns and will no longer work with him.

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Special thanks to the Grimsley Reunion Committee for their class of ’72 reunion. A great time was had by all. Thanks, again, for doing such a great job and having it at the Elks Lodge. And looking forward to some more years. Maybe I can make another one. Come by and see me near Jacksonville if you get a chance this way. Correction for John. Hurricane Hazel hit right around Calabash on Oct. 15, 1954. Greensboro was almost out of water. And Hazel, obviously, solved that problem real quickly.

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Dad used to joke with me that he didn’t know if we had enough water to sprinkle everybody being baptized. When I was about six months old I got baptized in that October ’54. Dad was saying we didn’t know if we had enough water. Greensboro was about out. Long Beach had something like 382 homes out of 385 destroyed. An aunt and uncle in Concord knew a couple from High Point in that ordeal. Anyway, just wanted to get that straight and add to your historical archives. Call me back if you need to. Take care. And the Demented One from the Class of ’72 is signing off.

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Editor’s Note: Thanks for the correction.

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I’m tired of hearing Black Lives Matter. I hear it every day dozens of times. This saying was created on a farce of a common thug committing a crime. And, then, fighting with law enforcement, he got his self killed. What needs to be said is black crime matters. It matters to everyone in each and every committee. It’s on the rise. It continues to rise. Two beautiful young women killed in Greensboro by three common thugs running from the law in a stolen car with rap sheets as long as their arms. These two wonderful young ladies will never see another daylight. Their parents are just devastated.

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This is for NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. He does not speak for the majority of the NFL fans, because I’ve been a fan since 1962 when the Green Bay Packers won their Super Bowl. And anybody who kneels during the national anthem is a traitor to his country. My son has fought in the military. My uncle has fought in the military. And there’s been someone in my family that’s fought in every American war. That includes the French and Indian War because we go back to 1607. And anybody that would kneel during the national anthem is a traitor, and they’re multimillion dollar salaries need to be voided.

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This is Joe from Archdale. All these people who are kneeling, and all the movie stars that think they can dictate to the American people, they need to leave the country. If they don’t want to stand up for our flag, which stands for our country and our way of thinking, they need to be gone. And I’ll help them any way I can. I got no money but I can help them ride out on a rail.

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Yep, we have so much stuff going this week. We had the shooting in Vegas. We had Tom Petty expire and a couple more things. So, I figure I want to talk about something totally different than the same old stuff about Trump. But, anyway, has anyone seen the new Superman movie that just came out last year? It doesn’t make any sense, because the movie before that Superman had basically got depressed and down and out and had basically packed his stuff and left. He came back to find that Lois Lane was married to someone else and had a child. Now this is what my curiosity is. You find out at the end of the movie that the child is actually part Superman’s and part Lois Lane’s. And he has asthma problems because his body has problems with the atmosphere.

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I sure miss the Three Stooges and Laurel and Hardy. But when I start missing them real bad, I simply just turn on MSNBC or CNN. That is a comedy show like you have never seen. They could easily take the place of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, the Greatest Show on Earth. These people are not journalists, they’re comedians. Thank you.

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Well, Beep, another happy day in Greensboro. I see you didn’t put in there what I said last week. That’s OK. I’ll start all over. I’d like to know when our Greensboro Police Department is going to start patrolling the streets again. I saw a police car on Yanceyville this morning. And I like what it had on the back. Protect and serve. Isn’t that what they ought to be doing here, protect and serve and do their job. And let the City Council leave them alone. And all these signs in the yards about Mayor Vaughan. We need some that say mayor gone. We don’t need her no more or the rest of them either. And if somebody – I don’t know who you call – come down Yanceyville, that the peach orchard. The man has got a junkyard there on Yanceyville. We used to have a nice neighborhood. But he’s got garbage cans. He’s got stoves, car engines, lawnmowers sitting out there at the fence. He’s running a junkyard behind that fence. And he’s ruined our neighborhood. It used to be a nice neighborhood.