Thank you for the article on the election by Uncle Orson in the Oct. 18 issue. I wish everyone could read it before they vote. It was so logical and informative. Thank you, Rhino Times. What would we do without you?

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Nancy Vaughan wanted to know where all the Duke Power crews are. Well, they’re down in Panama City, Florida, helping those people out. Also, little footnote, if Duke Power had buried those power lines 50 or 60 years ago, we wouldn’t have this problem today. Have a nice day.

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Hey, John. I really liked your weekly Hammer column, “Got Power?” You might want to take a close look at all these new developments going up around Greensboro. You don’t see an overhead electric line anywhere. It can’t be much more expensive putting them underground than it is to do that fancy sculpting they do on some of the trees that grow up into their lines. Have a good one. Northeast Greensboro here.

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Hello. I’ve got a couple of things I’d like to say. First, and foremost, this T.I. video of a fake Melania Trump in the Oval Office stripping with that coat on, I think that is a total disgrace for him to make a video of that. And, not only that, you know, they make a mockery out of Melania Trump. And I think that that’s a disgrace. She’s never been on a magazine cover since she’s been in office. But, boy, didn’t they spread Michelle Obama everywhere, you know, such a double standard. Number two, I’d like to say this about Hillary Clinton. We’re sick of you. You’re sitting there trying to say that your husband and Monica Lewinsky were adults. Well, so, that just blows this #MeToo movement all to pieces. Because all these women were adults. And most of this #MeToo movements, they did it because they wanted power. They wanted jobs …

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So, the worst thing that Trudy Wade can come up with on Michael Garrett is that he works at a business that his dad owns, and he lived at home with his mother while his house was being worked on. And these are the worst things that she can come up with about him? That is pathetic. And she’s going to send out a flier talking about how he was sworn in at a trial and testified to these things that he worked for his dad and lived with his mom. So what that tells me is that he’s not a liar. So, she just made the decision on who to vote for really, really, really easy for me. Anybody that votes for her is a fool.

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You may or may not be aware of the North Carolina Supreme Court election. There are two candidates running against Barbara Jackson, the Republican, is a lifelong Democrat, Christopher Anglin, who flipped just so that he could split the Republican vote and help Anita Earls to be elected. Everybody needs to be aware of that and don’t be tricked by this pseudo-Republican, Anglin. A word to wise should be sufficient.

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The leftist propaganda merchants of NPR and the BBC are pathetic.   National progressive radio aired a piece on an anti-Brexit march in London, consulting with Charlotte Gallagher, a reporter for the rabidly pro-EU BBC.  Ms. Gallagher was all but fawning over the anti-Brexit protesters and echoed their sentiments repeatedly.  However, she did not feel it necessary to inform us of a pro-Brexit march conducted by “Leave Means Leave” on the same day in the north of England.   That protest got no mention.   The fact that the majority of voters in a free, fair, nationwide referendum voted to leave the EU was not mentioned either.  But Ms. Gallagher was gung-ho about a so called people’s vote, which is their strange term for another referendum.   Who do they think voted last time?  Martians, dogs and sea creatures?   The left can’t believe they lost, so they throw tantrums, same as they do here.   Just sign me off as An Independent Thinker.

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If you want to clean up the mess in Washington, vote for Ted Budd. If you want to continue the corruption and stuff in Washington, then think about Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi or Maxine Waters. And Ms. Manning would be another one that would fall right in place with them. So vote for Ted Budd for US Congress. Thank you.

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Yes, as far as Nancy Vaughan driving for two hours and not seeing any power crews working, I’ve been driving the streets of Greensboro for I don’t know how many years. And at least in the last three or four, I haven’t seen any crews out patching holes or doing any resurfacing. And I mean the streets are terrible. When we moved here in ’89, I don’t think there was a bad street in Greensboro. Now you have to look real hard and fast to find a good one. I know this City Council doesn’t have all the responsibility, but they’re in here for four years. Somebody better do something to take care of us like they’re supposed to instead of every Tom, Dick, and Harry and so-called nonprofit organization that comes along that gets our money. It’s time to look out for the citizens of Greensboro. Thank you.

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This is for all my Democrat friends that are decent and good law-abiding citizens. I don’t know whether you know it or not, a lot of people don’t, you’re going to get about a $35 or $36 raise on your Social Security. The reason you’re getting that raise is because there’s more people working and there is more people paying into Social Security. All the news, except Fox, and most of the newspapers, including the Greensboro news that you probably take, is against Trump. He has done this with all the people against him, and he’s still made it work. Joe Biden got up and said we’re going to take our country back. Our country back from what? About everybody is wanting a job is working. If the Democrats get in, the only thing they’re going to do is try to impeach Trump and just cause a mess. That’s all it’s going to be.

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Yeah, I’m calling about this Mitch McConnell wanting to cut Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid. He might be rich, and the rest of his people he socializes with may be rich, but if he wants to cut something, then how about us cutting about 20 percent off of Congress’ pay and start making them pay for their own insurance, and then put them on Social Security like the rest of us so they have to support the system where they should have been to start with? And take away his pig feeding stuff. He’s sucking on the taxpayers all the time is what he’s doing. He probably never had a job and had to get out here and work. So I think they ought to start up there at the top of their selves and their families. The rest of us are trying to get something to eat down here. That’s all I got to say about it.

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Hello. I’m calling in regards to all of these people that are calling white people white privileged. And everything is going on is about racism, racism, racism, racism. You know, I’m sick of it. I’m a white woman. And I’m sick of it. You know? Every time you turn on the TV, it’s racism. It’s white privilege. The men, the white men are being put down. Now they’ve started on the white women. Because you’re a white woman, you’re not going to vote for Democrats. You know, they don’t know nothing. Last night on the Laura Ingraham Show there was this black woman on there. And she said that predominantly mostly white women don’t vote for Democrats. Well, how does she know that? She don’t know what white women do. She said that most people go and marry whatever, like if you’re a Democrat, you marry a Democrat. That’s not true. That is totally not true.

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Yeah, I’m calling about the great president Donald J. Trump I think it is who spends too much time doing things like calling people horseface, Pocahontas. This man looks like he’s got a haystack on top of his head. And he’s calling people names. This is below the office of the president of the United States. The man is not fit to be president. Most people that call in to this are Republicans. They voted for this man because he has that little R beside of his name. If this man was a Democrat, you guys would be calling him the worst president this country has ever seen. There is no word strong enough to describe that level of ignorance. The man is just not fit.

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It’s a crying shame that the North Carolina State Fair charges $50 per day to rent a motorized wheelchair and the fee is nonrefundable. All of us are probably disabled anyway to rent one. So that’s ridiculous that there is a fee that the State Fair doesn’t provide that for free.

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If it is true, how can the City of Greensboro get taxpayer dollars to support keeping the black historical museum open on the ballot for Nov. 6, 2018? If this can be done, why not put on the ballot to put all the historical statues back in their original places and have taxpayers pay for this? What is good for one race is good for another. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Beep.

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Editor’s Note: The International Civil Rights Center and Museum is not on the ballot.

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There is a time and place for everything. You compliment Melania Trump for what you call being funny by wearing combat boots on a visit to Florida after Hurricane Michael. I think it was very inappropriate in the midst of all that devastation. You would expect the first lady to be demure and sympathetic in that situation rather than trying to be a comedienne.

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Yes, I’m calling in regards to The Sound of the Beep caller that called in. This is for the Thursday, Sep. 27 edition of the Rhino Times where he quoted that Trump supporters are brain dead. I just want to let you know. First of all, you need to back off, whoever you are, saying all of us are ill-informed just because you speak to a few people who thought that Obama was president of 9/11. Well, I happen to remember that. I also happen to remember that Bush was president at that time. So, you can’t sit there and say that all of us are brain dead just because you talked to a handful of people that thought that Obama was president at that time. And we want to bet you that you’re probably the very one that sat there and supported Obama. And you also supported poor Hillary when she was running for president against Trump. So, if that’s the case, then who’s brain dead in this case? It looks like it’s you. So, to sit there and call us brain dead, actually, we’re the smart ones, because of what such a good job that Trump is doing with this country.

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Yes, I’m calling in regards to the caller who called in The Sound of the Beep from the Sep. 27 edition of the Rhino Times. And you have indicated that you are comparing Donald Trump to Nixon and saying that Donald Trump was a liar and a criminal. First of all, it was confirmed that Nixon was a liar and a criminal. Second of all, it has not been confirmed that Trump is a liar or a criminal. So I don’t know where you’re getting this from. And you need to be paying more attention to the news. Because you’re automatically saying that Trump is a liar and a criminal, and it hasn’t been proven that he is.

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Looks like to me if I was a Democrat that I’d get tired of the news bashing the president of the US and calling him a liar every day all day long. Right now, a Friday, I just flipped over to this Morning Joe on MSNBC. He said Trump was a great big liar. He was not going to send any military to stop the people and he don’t know why he told such a lie. Well, the people hadn’t got here that’s on the way, but we’ll find out if Morning Joe knows what he’s talking about. But why they just sit around and talk. Anybody that can tie his shoes and get in a car and drive down the street with a valid North Carolina driver’s license must know that things is better now than it was four or five years ago. If he don’t know that, he needs to go back to school.

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Folks, I believe the most important thing to keep in mind when you vote in the midterm elections is simply this: President Trump and the vast majority of Republicans offer results, not excuses. Democrats offer excuses and absolutely no results. Let that sink in before you push the button in the voting booth. I am very concerned about my future now that I had to take early retirement, not of my choosing. That’s why I vote Republican. I will vote Democrat when Hades freezes over, not before.

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You know, someone should find out who’s paying for all of this and causing all of this. From all of the Guatemalan illegals that are getting ready to literally invade our country. And a lot of these liberals are not – don’t want to do a thing about it. But the bulk of the American people want it stopped. They’re killing us. They’re killing us in a bad way, and they’re killing us economically. And it’s an invasion. Something should happen. And I hate that it’s going to be – one of these days it’s going to turn violent. Have a great weekend.

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I’m a news watcher. There’s two things I want to touch on. The first thing, next week, not next year, next week the federal government should pass a law that if you kill a police officer, it’s automatically the death penalty. That’s the first one. The next thing, these people that’s marching towards the border, and everybody knows what I’m talking about, they need to put on the ground razor wire. If they don’t have no more sense than to walk into it, then they should get cut. I’m talking about the women and children together. You’re not going to step out in front of a tractor-trailer if you see it coming down the road, and they won’t walk into that razor wire. That will stop them. And I don’t know what they’re going to do about getting the Democrats to help them close the border. They just can’t get that done, it don’t seem like.

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Good morning, Beep. Want everybody to look at the news. Just look at those wonderful Guatemalans, those plump, well-dressed Guatemalans that are rioting to get into our country. That’s just what we need in our country. We need more family deaths by motor vehicles and MS-13s. We need more people on the dole so that the taxpayers can pay for it. That’s what we need.