Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by Mel Maki

Rod, admit it. Nobody in this forum thinks shootings are only in the inner-cities. You are getting worse!

From your post, #11: "Most of the shootings are inner-city".
And, of course, nobody in this forum or elsewhere thinks shootings are ONLY in the "inner cities". Look at Texas, for example. You are getting worse!

Originally Posted by Mel Maki

You have reduced the forum to, "I know you are but what am I?"

Lol! Read your own posts. And I know what and who you are and I know the same about myself. You're the one that obviously needs to ask your own question about yourself. Trouble is, you've lost it a long time ago...

Originally Posted by Mel Maki

No, I was referring to the schoolboy taunts in what, the third grade?

Like this one: https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/06/us/police-chief-retires-racist-incident/index.html

Originally Posted by James Brown

"Chicago has seen at least 336 homicides for the first six months of the year, just two more than at this point in 2020 but 33 percent more than 2019’s 252 homicides, according to an analysis by the Sun-Times.

The city has recorded at least 1,892 shootings through June 28, the most recently available statistics, an increase of almost 12 percent compared to 2020’s 1,692 and a 53 percent increase over 2019’s 1,234 shootings during the same time."  

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-shootings-homicides-are-up-at-halfway-point-of-2021-cpd-statistics/2545666/

Rod, I don't think any location can match Chicago and Illinois in 2021.

Probably not but the point is it's getting worse nationally over time. Remember that many of the guns used in the shootings in Chicago come from states and areas outside of their gun laws and regulations.

Originally Posted by Chris Pagan

I feel for the scientists involved but a little piece of me rejoices by knowing it's not just me who experiences  their gear hanging up once in a while.   Seriously I hope they get it fixed because that would be a great loss.

Chris

Well, I don't feel for some of  the people who made the Hubble telescope. We already know about the fiasco with the primary mirror and that's history.
I get the part about the primary system failing after years of use. But the backups failing as well? I guess I've got a pet peeve in knowing what some of these people get paid to get it right and I'm talking about software engineers and the like, not to mention their extended vacations, benefits, and stock options. Same feelings about the cyber security people whose companies they're paid to protect get hacked left and right...

Looks like they've got it back up and running:
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/563441-hubble-telescope-to-go-back-online-after-nasa-repair-job

Even the backup systems don't work:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/30/opinions/hubble-telescope-glitch-opinion-lincoln/index.html

"Stillwater" opens this weekend:  https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/562399-matt-damon-research-for-trump-supporter-role-eye-opening
Kinds reminds me of  Rep. Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina who railed against Biden's push to go door to door to get people vaccinated because he's not only against that but he'll get your guns AND your Bible's too!...

A black voter whose experience went viral after he had to wait six hours in line to vote in Texas now languishes in prison. Subsequent voter reforms to correct what happened to him were enacted and worked effectively in the 2020 general election and are now under threat of repeal by the Republican controlled state. It seems this particular voter had a prior conviction for burglary in 1995 and was paroled in 2004 and reportedly kept his nose clean while working hard to support himself. Republican attorney general Ken Paxton, himself under indictment for felony securities fraud charges, chose to prosecute him in a county other than where the alleged act occurred and one in which is likely to seat an all white conservative jury. In the meantime, the black voter remains imprisoned, unable to post a bail of $100,000.  He faces 2 to 20 years in prison: 
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/562406-man-in-texas-arrested-on-charges-for-illegal-voting-after-casting-ballot

Contrast that to the treatment of white Republican voters convicted of voter fraud in the 2020 general election:
1. Pennsylvania man got 5 years probation and lost his right to vote for four years. "Voter records show that Bartman used Pennsylvania's online voter-registration portal to register both his late mother, Elizabeth Bartman, and his deceased mother-in-law, Elizabeth Weihman, who died in 2019 -- illegally registering both as Republican voters, the district attorney's office said."  https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/03/politics/pennsylvania-probation-illegal-ballot-trump-2020/index.html
2.  "Edward Snodgrass, who is a Porter Township trustee, has admitted to forging his dead father's signature on an absentee ballot and then voting again as himself, court records and other sources revealed. Snodgrass was busted after a Delaware County election worker questioned the signature on his father's ballot"
"and [will] receive a sentence of three days in jail and a $500 fine."  https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/another-gop-voter-accused-casting-ballot-dead-relative-n1272241
3. "Kansas Republican Rep. Steve Watkins charged with voter fraud" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/14/kansas-gop-rep-watkins-indicted-for-voter-fraud-362072 I don't see this guy being asrrested and imprisoned while awaiting trial...

Faux news had to issue a disclaimer while Trump was speaking at CPAC yesterday:   https://thehill.com/homenews/media/562493-fox-news-airs-disclaimer-during-trump-cpac-speech-about-2020-election
Geez...