The Sound of the Beep

This is a message for all of those people who are thinking about banning guns, before you come out and say we're banning guns, go back and read some history of the rise of Hitler and Nazi Germany. They took away the guns. And remember, after you take away the guns from all the good people, the only people left with guns are the bad people. And they will get them anyway. Remember, they've taken away the drugs, but people get drugs anyway. So, before you speak real fast, you better go back and read some of your history. Thank you.

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Hello Mr. Hammer. As usual, I see you are down on Obama. Well, what's new with that? Y'all folks ought to find someone else to mess with. Give the man a chance. I bet if he wasn't black, y'all wouldn't be down on him like that. And what about Tricky Dick? As many lies as he told, you can't … about Obama.

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Editor's Note: Go back and read a few "Clinton Watch" columns. It's his politics I don't like.

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Hey, I just want to say I appreciate The Rhinoceros. I read it every week. And I got a bit of a thing on my mind. School system here, Guilford County school system is bugging me about $6 and something that my son owes on his lunch bill. And, yet, they let somebody else run up $250,000. And they want to bug me for $6? I am totally upset about that. I think the Guilford school system stinks.

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In reference to the comment about Hammer throwing in Hussein when he talks about Obama, the caller is right. John, why don't you call Obama by his real name? According to the United States Justice Foundation out of Houston, Texas, his real name is Barry Soetoro. He is the acknowledged son of adopted father Lolo Soetoro, an Indonesian citizen. Indonesia does not allow dual citizenship. To be a citizen there can be no other alliance – allegiances. And he is listed as a citizen. Indonesian-born foreign student from his public schools. Every time a child is registered in an Indonesian school the child's name and citizenship status had to be verified through the government. Obama, or should I say Barry, has spent $2 million to hide his real own foreign-bought birth certificate and college records from America.

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Continuing my call. Socialism at work, ain't it great? And, oh, by the way on that certificate under the religion he is listed Islam. Also, John, find out some information about the National Security Agencies new 1 million square foot facility being built in Utah at a cost of $2 billion. Data storage facilities to spy on the citizens of the US. This information all came from the US Justice Foundation out of Houston, Texas. I'll assume it's a legitimate organization. It's sad to know that we have this kind of stuff going on, and money is being spent now to still hide his college records from America. We need to know everything about this man before he's reelected. Thank you very much.

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You know, we spend millions bombing other countries. But we have children born in this country going to bed hungry at night. What is wrong with us? Where are our priorities? Thank you.

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Editor's Note: We spend billons bombing other countries.

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Yes, Steely Dan Fan Man. You know, I wish people would get it straight the difference between entitlements and something that you actually earned. I'm on disability and Medicare. I get Social Security Disability Income and Medicare, and that's it. I don't get any handouts. I get an entitlement, because I am entitled to it, because I paid for it. I don't get any help from the state. I did get food stamps at one point, and that's only because I had to wait two-and-a-half years for disability to get me what I had coming. And I'm very upset with people lump these two things together. It upsets me to no end.

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Yes, thank you. I love The Rhinoceros Times. And I'm thinking about these poor little children that were shot. The gun controls are not going to help. The only thing is going to help is when they stop these violent shows on TV, these violent things at the movie theater, these violent videogames. This gives kids ideas. They can't think of it on their own. And until they stop that, no gun control is going to help. Please pray for all of the children and their families.

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This is a quick note to all you selfish, immature, uninformed right-wing gun nuts out there who believe these selfish, immature, uninformed right-wing Supreme Court's decision regarding the Second Amendment is a correct interpretation of the US Constitution. Regardless of how much you and five of the nine justices would like to think that the decision is intellectually and legally defensible and justifiable, it is clearly not. Your infantile obsession with guns is an obvious and undeniable symptom of your ethical, moral, mental and physical weakness, and your need to try and overcome your continually and entirely self-justified inferiority complex. Unfortunately, we all have to grow up sometime. Because intelligent, responsible citizens need to stop child's games. It's time to throw away your guns, your Barbie Dolls and your crayons and become big boys and girls. For the first time in your life, show some courage and do the right thing.

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I wish there was some way the Supreme Court justices could read your paper. This is the country we've gone into since they've taken prayer out of school. Anything to do mention with God they take it out. We was founded on the other way. That's what this country was founded on, and we've got so smart we've taken everything out. And this is the end result. The thing of it is, anybody that's conscious has got enough sense to tie their shoes, this is not the end. The school shooting is not the end. This is just the beginning. This is what happens when a country absolutely refuses to have anything to do with religion and when one person rules like the flag up at King, North Carolina. When they wanted to fly the Christian flag, the man said, no, I don't want it flown. So, they've taken it down. They should go back. Say, we're going back. For five years we're going back to religion and see what happens.

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It's Sunday, and all the newscasts are about the Connecticut shooting and gun laws. Yes, we, as Americans, have the right to have a gun for protection and hunting. How many hunters use a Bushmaster rifle to hunt deer, bears, ducks or squirrels? The gun owner is responsible for that gun, or guns, or any action of those guns. The new law should be – the new law should be – held responsible – gun owners to be the same accountable as the one that stole or used the gun and used it in a crime. North Carolina needs the death penalty. Corporal punishment works. We don't need someone sitting …

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Editor's Note: The AR-15 is actually a popular hunting rifle.

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Hi. This is in light of the situation in Newtown, Connecticut. The nation mourns. We continue to mourn with the use of violent crimes that are happening all across the schools and campuses of this country. They say it's the youth. It's how we're raising our children. It might be mental illness. It might be broken families. It might be the accessibility to guns and firearms. I think it would be an interesting study to look into the background of the killer on Virginia Tech, in Texas, Columbine, in Colorado, and now in Newtown, Connecticut. I bet if you look into the medical history of each of those gunmen, they were all on Ritalin at one time. We are over-medicated …

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We need to stop medicating our children. We have become a violent society. Kids are left unattended in front of computer games, in front of violent computer games, violence in the movie theaters, violence all around, and accessibility to guns. Interesting. But I would almost bet dollar to donuts that all four of these estranged mental people that broke fire onto innocent lives from kindergarten classes, to movie theaters to college campuses, at one time somewhere, somehow Ritalin or a drug was put into their bodies before the ages of 10 years old so they wouldn't be a problematic child. I never medicated my children, but I was told to medicate them. It's a big buzzword once they're in first grade. Oh, this one needs Ritalin.

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This is Pam calling in with my yearly message. Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night, and God bless us every one.

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Yes, I want to talk about that tragedy that happened Friday in Connecticut where those kids got killed. I blame the NRA and the Republican Party. Because those two are one of the reasons why stuff keeps going on. All this gun violence and killing really doesn't make no sense. I mean those guns don't kill. It's the people behind the guns. But no matter how many times they can pass all this gun regulation stuff, they will never stop gun violence. Sooner or later, or somehow, someway the bad guy always has a gun. It's always the crazy ones, and the racist ones that have more guns than the normal people or the sick ones that have more guns. But other than that, the Republican Party and the NRA are the ones I blame for this tragedy that happened in Connecticut. They are the ones to blame for it. I mean they're crying for them kids, but nobody cries for the kid that gets killed in the hood every day by gun violence from drug dealers and thugs. Why ain't nobody crying about that all the time? But other than that I think the Republicans and the NRA. Peace.

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Guns don't kill people. It's people killing people. The gun has no mind of its own until you put the person behind it. How do we stop these mental deviants from going around shooting people? Mental illness is such a big health issue nowadays, and most of these people don't have insurance, or they don't want to take medicine for their problem. So, what do we do? You know, do we start banning knives because people can kill with knives, and frying pans, and baseball bats? Do we ban that? Insurance is such a big factor in all of this, and the money. Thank you. Have a nice day.

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Yes, I would like to know how much longer Bev. Perdue is got in office. I will be so glad when she gets out of there. She has done more damage than anybody I know of. People that retired from the state school system worked for their insurance. She turns around and makes them pay for their insurance now. So, don't ever say anything about the Republicans taxing people. I think the Democrats are the greedy ones, and we're not supposed to have to pay for that insurance. That's what we worked for all them years. That's the good we got from the State of North Carolina. Nothing.

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Yes, the government continues to say there's no inflation. Though I bought a carton of eggs, dozen eggs at the beginning of the year for $1.34. Just paid $1.88 at Wal-Mart, same place, different price. That's a 40 percent increase. That's a 40 percent inflation on eggs at Wal-Mart, but the government says there is no inflation. I don't know how folks keep up with all these high prices.

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John, you missed a good story last week. They had Mayor Perkins domestic hearing in district civil court. There was a lot of interesting testimony. I really am sorry you missed it. Maybe you can check out the judge's ruling later. Thank you.

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Does the Texas Longhorns basketball program now have illegal classes where nobody teaches, nobody attends classes, and they get free A's? Odd. They stomped Chapel Hill where that's rampant.

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Yo, this thing in Connecticut was really bad, and it's terrible to think about it happening to your own child. But I wonder if people would think about all these drunk drivers that have killed people over the years, how many people they have killed. If they would get up in arms as much about that as they have about the guns, and the guns don't kill. Like they say, it's the person with the gun that's got a loose screw. But they should think about other things besides the gun. It's not just the guns. They've been using clubs and knives ever since the world began. So, people should think about different things and not just try to blame it on the guns. Because like I say the guns aren't the problem, it's the people that have them in their hands. Some of them are unstable. Thank you.

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Yes, this is for John Hammer. I would like to know why he has not published none of my call-ins or letters in the last two or three months. I have written or called to the Beep four times, and I've wrote one four-page letter, and neither one of them have appeared in his paper. And he talks about free press, free press. What kind of free press is that? Surely, he could have print one of them. If a little slander or lies or anything like that in them, I'm just telling my opinion on what was going on. And I wrote a letter on Nov. 27 telling him that the Tea Party and the moderate Republicans …

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Yes, continuing. I just remarked how the Tea Party and the moderate Republicans is at each other's throat. I didn't think there would be another Republican president in the next 50 years. Hillary Clinton would be there in 2020 or 2024. If the Tea Party hasn't gone away by then, there will never be another Republican Party. And I wish he would print – find that letter and print it for me. I had a lot of information in there.

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Yes, I was just noticing today the number of cars that were not using their headlights in the rain. People, it's a North Carolina law. So, why don't the police and all enforce this law? Oh, yeah, it's raining.

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Please consider a public records request asking for a copy of the Guilford County Department of Human Resources study which led to most department directors and other employees receiving annual raises of $2,000 to $14,000 while most county employees received only a $250 one-time bonus for lack of a better word. Maybe county employees should consider joining a union for better representation.

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Editor's Note: We've made that request.

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Hello, Rhino Times. I've been reading y'all for a long time. This is for Under the Hammer by John Hammer about Grover Norquist. I'll be honest with you, he is a little evil demon who has destroyed the Republican Party. He is in charge of a committee, which is – what's the word for it – privately funded. He's a nonprofit organization. You can edit this to make it sound better. The laws for them getting money means that all donations are undisclosed. OK? So, you don't have any idea who's really pulling the strings behind Grover Norquist and his pledge that he makes to everybody in the Republican Party sign to not raise taxes. How do you know who has paid him …

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This is a continuation. Like I said, you can edit this to make this reasonable. You don't have any idea who is pulling the strings behind his nonprofit organization because you don't have to list the donors. For all you know, people in the liberal media, or support the liberal media, could be pulling his strings to cause mass confusion in the Republican Party and keep the Democratic candidates strong. And until you can understand the funding issues that Grover Norquist is doing, and who's pulling his strings, I'm going to assume that he's dirty and he has an agenda to destroy our American politics. And if you print this, and people read it, maybe they might enjoy my opinion. If you not, you don't print it, oh, well. I'm just an American expressing my opinion. Thank you.

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Editor's Note: According to your theory, I could be pulling his strings.

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Yeah, Steely Dan Fan Man. Concerning Boyd W. Thomas' letter to the editor in the Dec. 13 issue. If Medicare Part D does die in 2020, I will be well and truly disabled. I mean I am already disabled as it is. That will completely do me out of any and all medications that I take for pain or anything else that I might have. And I still want be of retirement age. So, thank you Obamacare. That's all.

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I was just wondering if you could explain to me how a Greensboro city police car is being used to pick up a student at Southwest Elementary in the carpool line on a regular basis. I don't recall the city providing me with a car and gas paid by the taxpayers to pick up my child at school. Thanks.

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This morning on NPR's weekend edition, Scott Simon of national propaganda radio conducted an extended eight or nine-minute interview with Tracy Thorne about her new Christmas album, Tinsel and Lights. Ms. Thorne continually and repeatedly and casually used the word Christmas. But during the course of the entire interview, Mr. Simon managed to never speak the word Christmas one single time, referring repeatedly to the holidays. At the end of the interview she wished him happy Christmas, and he wished her happy holiday. Who can say that national propaganda radio doesn't have an agenda? Just sign me off as An Independent Thinker.

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For all your Democratic friends that voted Obama back in, I want you just think about something. We know we're going to have trouble over where the oil comes from. We know that for a fact. He will not sign the Keystone Pipeline. He don't want you buying cheaper oil because he's dead set on solar stuff, and stuff of that nature. And he does not have your best interest at heart. All he cares about is being a ruler. He likes playing president. He don't want to be president. That's why he won't give in on signing this tax rate increase for the rich. It's something he wants to do. Just like a kid, he's childish. And that's who you voted in. And when your checks get cut off, and they will get cut off, because there's not going to be no money, I want you to think about who you put back in office.

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I graduated with current Guilford County Commissioner Bill Bencini from High Point Central High School in 1970. It's sad to read about the condition of that place now. I don't believe we had 1,400 students then. But I hope Commissioner Bencini, you know he thinks about that school and goes back and tries to get some money to fix that place up. They need additions, obviously. But that is sad that that school has gone to the dogs like that. We ate in the cafeteria back in 1970, and there was room for students.

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Yes, after reading The Rhino, I'm not really surprised at what the Perkinettes think about Mr. Perkins, because if you can remember before he was ever elected I warned everybody to leave him alone, because he was sneaky, had them shifty eyes, and you have to watch people like that. So, now you all have found out what kind of person he is, which I already knew that. And you should have known what he was up to all the time. You were told. But, no, all of you high-society people think Mr. Perkins was something beyond even knowing.

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Continue. And I'm not a bit surprised that Ms. Bellamy-Small is always hanging on to his side. Because she's of the same nature he is. They'll do anything to get what they want. It don't make no difference what. Look she did that policeman when he stopped her what, a couple of years ago, for something she was doing. So, you see, they give you a good example of what kind of personality a person is. And I think we have enough of these people that's been sitting up there on that board that does things for their favorite people and not watching for the whole people. I wish they would vote about half of them out like they did on Guilford County.

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Unless the official election results in all 50 states bring out a serious surprise, Republicans are not going to have a majority in the Senate next year. Certain people need to quit behaving as if something else is the case.

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Editor's Note: No, they won't. Senate elections won't be until 2014.

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If there is so much supposed support in the City of Greensboro for a performing arts center for $60 million, why does a small private stage called Triad Stage need $500,000 donations in order to survive? Thank you.

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Yes, I'd just like to say I'm sitting her watching a concert for the relief of Sandy. And my heart goes out to these people, but we spend millions helping other countries, and we spend millions going to war with other countries. I think it's about time we stop and started taking care of ourselves. Thank you.

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Good morning, Beep. Reading the news and fish wrap this morning. There is an article about a Latina lady in Alamance County being rewarded for having a fake ID, a fake Social Security card, and being in the country illegally, but, yet, they're going to turn her loose. And now they've jumped on the police department there. It's just a – why do we keep rewarding people for breaking our laws? That's what I can't understand. Thank you, and have a nice day. Merry Christmas.

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What is the status of the request by the Sheriff's Department to buy the multi-million dollar property currently leased from the Koury Corporation? I understand this property is in the flood plain and has flooded in the past. Is it really worth the huge price being asked by Koury? Would anybody else pay this price? Since the old jail in Greensboro no longer houses prisoners, why couldn't the Sheriff's Department use that property instead of buying property in the flood plain for millions of taxpayers' dollars? Thank you, Rhino.