I just finished reading the second installment of the Street Level cop column, and I wanted to commend that officer for his fine writing. And he certainly could probably have a second career should he choose to go in that direction. Thank you.

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I read the article in the Jan. 12 Rhino Times, “Commissioners Want Answers, Not Requests for More DSS Jobs.” As a citizen that has been dealing with DSS, I have several recommendations to help them to be more efficient. One, provide clients with written guidelines of what is expected or what each party’s responsibilities are. When questions about policy and procedures regarding the aspect of their program came up, we were told they didn’t have any. So each social worker interprets the situations differently. McDonald’s has a policy on how to make french fries. How does DSS not have those? Treat your clients with respect. I’ve never worked with professionals whose communication practices include not returning phone calls or deleting emails without reading them. I understand the social workers are required to renew their licenses by obtaining continuing ed credits, four of which are in ethics. I only wish they applied these principles to the people and families that they are supposed to help and work with.

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Mexico pays for the wall with every company that relocates or stays in the US rather than going south of the border. Mexico pays for the wall with every job that stays in America, returns to America rather than going south of the border. Mexico is already paying for the wall.

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Yes, a police officer was violently assaulted early Sunday morning, Jan. 22, while trying to make an arrest at a local club on East Market Street. The arrest was being made because of an altercation that had erupted between two divergent groups at the club. While the two officers were making the arrest, the crowd turned against the officers and began threatening the officers and assaulted one of the officers violently. Have you heard about this officer being hurt, almost being killed by a mob? Someone needs to investigate this. What is going to happen when there are no police officers?

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Sanctuary cities? No one has sanctuary from the law.

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Yeah, listen to all the crybaby protestors against Trump. Get an airplane ticket and leave this country. If you don’t want him, leave. It’s a whole big world out there. You can go anywhere you want. But I didn’t tear stuff up when Obama got elected. Leave. All right. My man won and I like it. Maybe he will make the change. I hope he does. Got to be better than what we’ve dealt with for the last eight years. All right. Just want to voice that little opinion. If you don’t like it, leave. Bye.

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This is one more thing for the old crybaby protestors. Why don’t you go outside the Kremlin and try to do what you did in DC? I don’t think you would like it very much what they would do over there. All right. Like I said, if you don’t like America, leave. It’s a great big world out there. Quit crying. I mean, how many of you guys actually voted? If you don’t like it, vote. Bye.

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I’m calling about these protestors that were protesting about Donald Trump. I think it’s getting bad that we, the American people, are sitting watching on TV these ridiculous people busting up people’s shops and stuff, busting out windows and everything. I think it’s time that we need to stop having these protests. I don’t care what has to happen, but all you see at these protests are these people busting up people’s businesses and stuff. And also, I want to talk about John Lewis. John Lewis, the Democratic senator that didn’t go to George W. Bush’s inauguration, and then he didn’t go to Donald Trump’s inauguration. I’d like to ask him, are you prejudiced? Because you went to Obama’s.

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The mainstream media are ridiculing the notion of alternative facts, as if there were no such thing. They are wrong, as usual. They are promulgators of alternative facts. If you don’t believe there are such things as alternative facts, let me ask you this question. Of all the major G-7 economic powers, which one’s capital is the easternmost? And which one is the westernmost? The answer in both cases is London. So you can say that London is the easternmost and westernmost, because it’s split by the Greenwich Meridian. Here is another well-known example of alternative facts. The glass is half full. The alternative fact is that the glass is half empty. Both are true. Both are facts. Which one you sell to the public depends on how you’re trying to manipulate them. It’s called spin, and the same media who mock Kellyanne Conway for saying the phrase are the same people who engage in it 24/7/365. Just sign me off as An Independent Thinker.

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All you people out there who read this Rhino Times, you got to remember, we’re dealing with a businessman president, not a politician. It’s going to take some time to see what’s going to happen, because he’s got a businessman’s mind. So cut him some slack.

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I see where they’re marching in Greensboro about the immigration order that Trump’s signing. If you had a clue about what it’s costing the American taxpayers to fund all the illegal immigration that’s going on in this country, you would probably pass – well, no you wouldn’t. You wouldn’t pass that, because you don’t pay taxes. Your mom and dad pay taxes, wondering how they’re going to make their tax bill every year while we’re funding everybody that can sneak across the border. We are in a country where we’re not allowed to know the number of illegal aliens in our school systems. Our prison systems are full. Our hospitals are overwhelmed. Do you not realize that’s why Medicare, Medicaid and all of our social medical systems are overwhelmed? We’re funding people that do not have one dime invested in their welfare.

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Continuation. We’ve got people in the school systems in our state right now that we don’t know their age, and they’re in the classroom 10-, 12-, 13-year-old children. Some of these people look like they’re in their mid-20s. Even the fact a woman in Burlington not long ago was supposedly 18 or 19-year-old caught him out in the parking lot selling drugs. Didn’t hear that story but one time either. If you people marching like the situation with spending all this money on illegal immigration as much as you do, then you take them to your home personally. You fund them personally with your money. You pay for their schooling, their education, their medical care, and then you be responsible for any actions they take that harms another individual. The American people are sick of it. That’s why Donald Trump is in office.

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Well, I just come out of Wal-Mart off Cone Boulevard. And there where it says yield to pedestrians, this guy came out, just about run over me flying through the parking lot. I did come down Yanceyville, and a police officer was writing somebody a ticket. That’s good. It’s time for the police officers to step up and do their job. That’s what they get paid for. These streets are unsafe because of our police chief and mayor. Everybody who visits the triad area, Greensboro especially – I like Greensboro. I live here – need to start calling in to the Beep and get something done about these fools flying up and down the road running red lights. It’s time for the Police Department to do their job before some people get killed.

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Yes, in the parade for Donald Trump’s inauguration, I’d like to say that black marching band really ain’t nothing but a sellout. They might as well put on a minstrel show for the slave master. I don’t know what they did. I don’t know if they’re desperate for money, or was just playing ignorant, or whatever it is. That black marching band really sold themselves out to be in that parade. They should have done the right thing like Jennifer Holliday did. They should have pulled out. I wouldn’t perform for no grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. But, anyway, other than that, they might as well put on a minstrel show or put on a strip show for Donald Trump as far as I’m concerned. But other than that, that black marching band that was in the parade ain’t nothing but sellouts. That’s all I got to say. They need to check themselves. Peace.

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Editor’s Note: President Donald Trump grew up in New York City, which is not a hotbed of KKK activity. However, the late Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia, before running for office, was an exalted cyclops in the Klan.

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It is Saturday, Jan. 21, and the lead article on the front page of the sports section of the News & Record, and about half of another page, is about Roy Williams’ clothes. What’s in the article deals with Alexander Julian designing and fitting the clothes to Williams. When he does fit the clothes, I wonder if he makes allowances for when Williams jerks off his jacket and throws it at his chair, thereby setting a very poor example for his team and young UNC fans.

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I’m a retired Marine. I watched, of course, the inauguration. And, of course, through the years now, MSNBC and CBS and this bunch of clowns that’s taken over all of the news stations, NBC, especially around Raleigh, and the liberals. It’s gotten quite pathetic. But this thing about the Trump inauguration speech being dark, and the amount of people that showed up that they’re lying about. Anyways, I know what is wrong. The dark part of the speech is this. They all have their head up their behinds.   Period.

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It’s Saturday afternoon, and with all the obesity problems we have in this country, these women out marching will really improve their health. Doctors will be happy. They’ll really be happy with Trump if he’ll just keep them marching.

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Welcome to America. This is my country. This is your country. I am a constitutional American. Is it not better to light one small candle than to continually curse the darkness? Thank you, Rhino Times, for this freedom of the press. The Son of a Legal Russian Immigrant.

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Does the Democratic Party actually know how ridiculous they look and act since the Trump inauguration? The protests – how ridiculous. Chuck Schumer from New York saying he’s going to fight Trump tooth and nail. He looks like a buffoon and a clown when he’s on TV running his mouth. He is so ridiculous and looks so childish. These people are so done with the American public, it’s not even funny. The Democrats will lose what they have now. They will lose that in the midterm election. And, then, the next election, the Democratic Party will be a thing of the past. We are headed to a one-party system, and good riddance to bad trash. They are absolutely the most ridiculous people I’ve ever seen in my life.

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Chuck Mann has really gone overboard on equality. First he wants people to have equal rights. Now he wants countries to have equal rights. People weren’t born equal, and neither are countries.

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This is Old Ed over in High Point. I was pulling for the Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers last night, and they both lost. I think the Russians hacked into that game, and we need to have a congressional hearing. And, also, Matt Lauer of NBC News is really mad because Trump said they had a bigger crowd at his inauguration than Obama’s. I think we also need another congressional hearing to find out who had the biggest. Anyway, thank you for all your help, Beep.

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We keep hearing congressional complaints about Tillerson’s ownership effects on stock. I don’t recall ever hearing complaints about Kerry, Heinz, owning lots of stock in Heinz ketchup company. Also, there was not this much discussion about Hillary Clinton’s Clinton Foundation deals and taking foreign money. So is this just a partisan deal again? .

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Yes, in regard to the 68 people that in Congress decided not to show up at the inauguration, all I can say is, like Gomer Pyle would say, shame, shame, shame. And it was really disrespectful toward our government and the other people of the world to see just what some of these people are that are trying to lead this government. It does not help our picture at all around the world. And a shameful part is about the ones from North Carolina. And all I can say about Alma Adams, while she was off on Friday, was out buying a whole bunch of hats so that she can hold them in front of her face when people see her so that they don’t know who she is and she’s from North Carolina. And just because of her being disrespectful. Use your hats wisely, Alma, in front of your face. Thank you, Rhino Times. Keep up the good work.

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Hi. I’m calling about the women’s march that took place all over this past weekend. I’d like to say, you know, all those Hollywood movie stars that come out like Cher, Madonna, Scarlet Johansson, all of you. I think it’s dirty that you would come out and even put your name on anything like that. And I think that Hollywood shouldn’t even be engaged in anything like this. They shouldn’t even be putting their two cents in anything. I think American people have made these people famous for so long that they think they are above the American people. And I think that American people need to stop paying to go see their movies. They need to quit buying their records.

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This is to the police chief and all of his police officers, and to the Sheriff’s Department and all their officers. The citizens of Greensboro don’t mind if you get out and do your job, you know, take care of the streets like you’re supposed to instead of sitting around in the parking lots and stuff, waiting on somebody to call you where it’s been a wreck or a shooting. But you don’t care about the speed limits, or red lights, or people doing stupid things on the street. But we don’t mind if you take care of business and come out, you know, and patrol the streets like you’re paid to do and stop these fools from trying to kill people. It’s your job. Try it sometime. Thank you.

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Yeah, Steely Dan Fan Man. I wish everybody would lay off, you know, Trump’s taxes, and tax returns, and all this. You know? It took three or four years for us to get a fake Obama birth certificate. And who knows, like I said – and I’ve said this many times on this line before – who knows how many billions of dollars – I mean, that’s why it took three or four years – who knows how many billions of dollars that he paid Hawaii to come up with a birth certificate for him. Why don’t you leave Trump alone? Thank you.

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Yes, I am a former Marine. And in a beep in there, a gentleman with the last four words of his statement was, I feel bad for you. And, no, I feel bad for him with what he said in that paper. I would like to inform him that Donald Trump is actually the Abraham Lincoln of our time. This left and right in this country should really stop. From a military view, we don’t look at it the same way as these – I’ll just call them what they are, waterheads, trying to get one another to go against each other. And it really shouldn’t be that way. Just go ahead and lose the attitude for the left and right and get with the program. This will be a great, great president. Thank you.

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The largest historic collection of Confederate long guns in the United States has for years been on permanent display at the Greensboro History Museum. People travel to Greensboro from all over the US just to see this collection. Unfortunately, the museum manager, who is from New York, is planning on removing this historic collection from public view and putting it in storage.

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As a woman, I am embarrassed by the nasty behavior of the women’s march. It was advertised as a women’s march for their rights, but it was nothing but an anti-Trump demonstration. The rights they were demanding were nothing new, such as equal wages with men. Why didn’t they march during Obama’s administration? Their behavior was deplorable, and I felt so bad for the young children that were there. What shameful role models. Their signs asking for respect were a joke. Since they were not showing any respect for the office of president, and the votes of our fellow citizens. There can never be unity in the US as long as we have such bad behavior when we don’t get our way. Grow up and serve as a role model for our youth.

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I do not support Donald Trump, because he doesn’t support me.

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This is in answer to the handwringing and weeping by the Democrats since the march in DC of a bunch of misguided, uninformed people. The following is a fact. There are 3,141 counties of America. Donald Trump won 3,084 counties. Hillary Clinton, she won 57 counties. That is the wisdom of the Electoral College.

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If the Republican Party really wants to give you a choice, then why are they just limiting your choice to schools? They offer you a choice of schools so that they can divert taxpayers’ dollars into their own pockets. Charter schools are a profit-making machine. I asked y’all a couple of weeks ago what the profit margin was on a child’s education. And I didn’t get an answer. And if the Republicans want to offer you choice, then you ought to have the choice to decide if you want an abortion or not. The Republicans don’t get to pick and choose your choices for you.

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The thing about America is that even a jerk can be elected president. We’ve done it before, more times than once. There are two things I would say about it. First, if your jerk got elected this time, it’s not a blank check for you to be a jerk yourself. Second, winning isn’t the end of it. It’s only the beginning. What you have to do every day now for the next four years is ask yourself if Mr. Trump is making your life better, not his life but yours. If he’s not, you have to do something about it. It’s what being a citizen of America is all about. Get involved and demand more from your president and your legislators. You elected them. They work for you now, or should be.

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Put the hat back on.

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Are the Democrats pathetic, or what? The issues that they are talking about don’t mean anything. Our president is talking about bringing jobs here, 50,000, 60,000, 70,000 jobs at a time. And they’re hung up on a remark he made about the size of the crowds or illegal voters. The things they are talking about is trivial, and elementary, and it doesn’t mean anything. They’re on the outside looking in, where they should be. It’s a new day. It’s a new president. And it’s a new era. They can either get on board, or stay on the outside and continue to look in.

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