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The last two of eight prototypes for President Donald Trump's proposed border wall took shape Thursday at a construction site in San Diego.
The prototypes, including one built by Israeli defense firm Elta, form a tightly packed row of imposing concrete and metal panels, including one with sharp metal edges on top.
[...] The models, which cost the government up to $500,000 each, were spaced 30 feet (9.1 meters) apart. Slopes, thickness and curves vary. One has two shades of blue with white trim. The others are gray, tan or brown — in sync with the desert.
Bidding guidelines call for the prototypes to stand between 18 and 30 feet (5.5 and 9.1 meters) high and be able to withstand at least an hour of punishment from a sledgehammer, pickaxe, torch, chisel or battery-operated tools.
Features also should prevent the use of climbing aids such as grappling hooks, and the segments must be "aesthetically pleasing" when viewed from the US side.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday October 21 2017, @05:36PM (2 children)
Illegal voters exist. Nobody knows in what numbers but that they exist is an inarguable fact. Why does nobody know in what numbers? Because Democrats raise holy hell when anyone tries to verify someone is eligible to vote before they do. Why is that, do you think?
And people are dependent on government handouts because every single race anyone with a D by their name is telling them how they can't possibly succeed in life, but here, have some money. If we spent a quarter of what we do on entitlements teaching people to be self-sufficient, there would be no need for handouts.
Don't get me wrong. The Republicans are absolutely in the pockets of big business and only too happy to sell out the American public. The Democrats are far, far worse though. Republicans only take opportunities from people; Democrats take hope. Their entire political strategy consists of telling you it's impossible to succeed on your own but vote for me and I'll take care of you. People would be better off losing power over their lives at the point of a gun. At least that would be honest.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 21 2017, @11:29PM
I don't know. What I do know, however, is that the FBI enters people's ID and drivers license photos into a facial recognition database, thereby increasing their ability to conduct unconstitutional mass surveillance on the populace. If I could trust the government to do a single thing without abusing my rights either now or at some point in the future, that would be nice.
They both take away hope, since politics is a soul-crushing game of authoritarianism and corruption. Neither party supports the Constitution. Even though they claim to, most gun rights advocates don't even support the 2nd amendment, since they support gun control as soon as they deem a weapon to be 'too dangerous' (like with fully-automatic and explosive weapons). Obviously gun control advocates don't care about the 2nd amendment. Very, very few politicians in either party seem to support the fourth amendment. Nearly all of them support limitations on freedom of speech that do not exist in the first amendment (some combination of obscenity, free speech zones, protest permits, hate speech, etc.).
I am not convinced that democrats are far, far worse. They are almost equally abysmal.
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday October 24 2017, @12:08PM
There are millions and millions of illegal voters, at least 7 million. We know because we have a database. Kris Kobach found them with his Interstate Crosscheck. His database. The Dems obstructed it in a lot, a lot of states, but he found millions in the database. There's massive voter fraud in Virginia, New Hampshire, and California. These are people who vote in two, three, four, five states on the same day. People, in my opinion, that are voting many, many, many times. Which is a very serious crime. And some have been charged. Believe me, they have been charged. Several faced charges and had to appear in court. There's a very credible study, the Richman study, that found a lot, a lot of illegals are voting. Tremendous voter fraud, very crooked. And if you deduct those millions of people who voted illegally, I won the popular vote.