Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by Mel Maki

I don't know the truth of the claims. You are saying they are BS.
And when I said you have to find a link, I wasn't telling you to find a link. I'm saying that is the only way you have to know if anything is truth or fiction.

LOL!!! "I said you have to find a link, I wasn't telling you find a link"!!! 
"I'm saying that is the only way to know if anything is truth or fiction." What, YOU don't want to know if it's fact or fiction? If you do, then YOU have to find a link! Duh!
Now let's dissect the stupidity of your original post which reads: "Something I have not researched but is making the rounds against Biden. Chipman is Biden's man at ATF (Biden called it AFT)) and Chipman wants people that fail the gun background check to go to jail. But it is claimed that Hunter lied on the background check about drug usage. Photos on his computer show him using drugs. Will they put Hunter in jail? This is more ammo for people against Chipman as head of ATF."
So, to start, you cite something you've heard, which is better known as hearsay and/or rumor "that is making the rounds" And, of course, there's no link to back it up. 
Some people who fail a background check do so because they're a convicted felon and have already done their time and can't go to jail because that would be double jeopardy and, presumably, even YOU have heard about that. Other people who fail a background check may very well have a reason to do so and perhaps should be investigated with a follow-up police report. What do you think, only saints buy guns? I hate to break it you but there's a hell of a lot of criminals buying guns via all the loopholes we have in place thanks to the guns lobby and their allies in congress. 
Sheesh...

The title of the thread is what you can now do in Iowa, thanks to a Republican governor signing the  Republican "constitutional carry" law of the state. The "well-regulated militia" part of the second amendment wasn't mentioned. 
So no permit? No problem! No background check even if buying from an unlicensed dealer on the internet? No problem! BUT, if Iowans want to buy their handgun from a federally LICENSED dealer, THEN they'll after to go through a background check! That'll teach 'em to think twice before they buy from a FEDERALLY LICENSED dealer!
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/546399-iowa-governor-signs-bill-allowing-permitless-purchase-carry-of-handguns

"This unmanned stealth torpedo is powered by a nuclear reactor and intended by Russian designers to sneak past coastal defenses -- like those of the US -- on the sea floor."
"The device is intended to deliver a warhead of multiple megatons, according to Russian officials, causing radioactive waves that would render swathes of the target coastline uninhabitable for decades."
In November, Christopher A Ford, then assistant secretary of state for International Security and Non-Proliferation, said the Poseidon is designed to "inundate U.S. coastal cities with radioactive tsunamis."

Ya gotta see this shit:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/05/europe/russia-arctic-nato-military-intl-cmd/index.html

Get out that GOP "army"and "fix" those "problems":
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2021/04/10/texas-gop-common-cause-leaked-video-army-poll-watchers-hollins-nr-vpx.cnn

1,"One provision seeks to prohibit local officials from urging people to complete an early voting application."
So, even if a local public official does their current civic duty and attempts to encourage a get out the vote by early voting application in order to avoid long lines at the polls, they'll be prohibited from doing so.
2. "If someone does apply for and receive an early ballot, and if they decide to return it in person, they must hand their ballot to an actual person. That means new limits on ballot drop boxes." 
So, you've already registered, sent for and received an early ballot but instead of simply dropping it off in a drop box, you have go through the trouble of a finding a duly authorized person to hand YOUR ballot to which, of course, defeats the purpose avoiding an uncomplicated process in the first place.
3. "In many states, Democrats and Republicans alike practice what is known as vote harvesting, collecting absentee ballots from voters, already cast, signed and sealed."
"In states where absentee voting is becoming more prevalent, Republicans are starting to turn against the practice — and none go further than what the Texas law would impose. One section of the bill makes paid vote harvesting a felony, both from the person receiving pay and the person doing the paying."
So, just WHO is going to collect those absentee ballots, a republican appointee?
4. Providing more access to "poll watchers" and allowing them to record the proceedings.
“Here in Texas, partisan poll watchers have a history of harassing and intimidating Black voters and people of color,” Story said. “Giving untrained poll watchers the authority to take matters into their own hands and record Texans who are simply trying to exercise their right to vote is a recipe for disaster.”
5. Fewer voter resources like stopping drive through drop offs:
“What they are doing is essentially aiming to create lines, which a lot of busy people just don’t have the time to stand in line for hours in order to vote,” Hidalgo said. “These rigid formulas in the past have done nothing but create long lines, and we know who that impacts.”
6. Preventing disable people from curbside voting: 
“Curbside voting is folks who have limited mobility, so they have somebody drive them and then they have the machine brought to them,” Hidalgo said. “They’re afraid that they’re not going to find somebody who will drive them.”
For a bevy of additional restrictions read the link:
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/546814-whats-inside-texass-move-to-overhaul-voting-rules

Originally Posted by Mel Maki

You can deny reality for only so long.

It's an opinion piece from a solo author who concludes: "Will a wall solve all of our immigration problems? Hardly. It will take years to build, and some practical, regulatory and legal hurdles might be hard to surmount. But for anyone who hopes for America to remain a proud nation of immigrants, it has to be a part of the solution." 
After acknowledging that it will take years to build, he states this: "That deterrent is needed now. U.S. agents apprehended 170,000 migrants along the southwest border in March, a 70 percent jump over February’s numbers and the highest level in 15 years. Notwithstanding the administration’s claims to the contrary, there is a crisis, led by a massive surge in child migration spurred by President Biden’s promises of a more humane policy than his predecessor’s." "Some of this surge is seasonal. And some can be dealt with by building more shelters for unaccompanied minors and families, or speeding up the process of finding relatives or others who can take in unaccompanied children."
Reading the above seems contradictory and produces more doubt in a wall as a solution. Even without a wall, the migrants are still be apprehended in record numbers. Even with a wall, kids and adults are being dropped over from the top of it...

Originally Posted by Mel Maki

Keep trying.

Keep trying...

Mel might get his fantasy fulfilled: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/547060-omar-slams-biden-admin-for-continuing-the-construction-of-trumps-xenophobic

Originally Posted by Mel Maki

Why do you think the wall is a fantasy?

"Fixed defenses are a monument to the stupidity of man." General George S Patton.

Originally Posted by Mel Maki

Patton wasn't talking about immigration.

No, he was talking about defenses, like walls...