I came across this is little story today, it's not breaking news. I suspect that a member of the housekeeping staff knows something about the bomb threat that required the sweep for weapons.
According to police in Secaucus, the bomb threat — which later was determined to be bogus — was called in to Hudson Regional Hospital on July 18. During a search, bomb detection dogs led investigators to an unlocked office closet containing dozens of firearms.
Among the weapons were 11 handguns and 27 rifles or shotguns, according to police. The closet also contained a .45 caliber semi-automatic rifle with a high-capacity magazine that was determined to be an assault rifle, and a 14-round high-capacity handgun magazine.
The arrested the guy the next day.
What the heck do you think this guy was doing? It sounds very ominous that he was keeping those weapons there.
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MaybeeRN said:
We’re the ones laughing at liberals for their incompetence and stupidity during election time. I seem to recall democrats being too stupid to figure out punch ballots in Palm Beach back in 2000.
Your recollection is yours... it reflects a larger struggle with reality. In my reality, Republican leadership in Alaska is trying to blame their recent losses on their voters inability to understand ranked choice voting. They aren't laughing at all... the voting was too hard for them... according to their own assessment.
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I'm packing for a trip and listening to the House in the Speaker nomination and voting. McCarthy received fewer votes in the second vote than in the first.
It's difficult to imagine how chaotic this Congress is going to be if this is an example of republican leadership and consensus building.
I'm packing for a trip and listening to the House in the Speaker nomination and voting. McCarthy received fewer votes in the second vote than in the first.
It's difficult to imagine how chaotic this Congress is going to be if this is an example of republican leadership and consensus building.
It’ll get straightened it in the end. I’m happy when Congress isn’t wasting Trillions of dollars.
Your recollection is yours... it reflects a larger struggle with reality. In my reality, Republican leadership in Alaska is trying to blame their recent losses on their voters inability to understand ranked choice voting. They aren't laughing at all... the voting was too hard for them... according to their own assessment.
Try again.
The people of Alaska were stupid to do ranked choice voting. Why would anyone adopt something that New York utilizes.
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MaybeeRN said:
The people of Alaska were stupid to do ranked choice voting. Why would anyone adopt something that New York utilizes.
Well... that's what the republican heavy state decided to do in a recent election... you are staying true to form by trying to shift blame away from the political party with the clout in the state. It's reflects well upon you to call Alaskans, in general, stupid... we don't expect much better from your account. Sadly.
There's nothing of value to be found in constantly responding to your delusional and rabidly partisan beliefs... I'll just let you simmer in your own juices.
I don't know how I missed this; the NYT article was published this morning, but this happened nearly 2 years ago.
Apparently he openly carried the rifle when he entered the store, when he was reported to store security "clicking sounds" where heard coming from a stall in the restroom.
While I support responsable gun ownership, I can't see any reason, other than creating panic, that someone would do something like this.
Who doesn't support responsible gun ownership? IMHO, that's why we need more gun regulation. It's happened to me that a crazy looking person with hardly any clothes on walked aggressively into a grocery store when I was at the check out line. He knew where he was going. I just yelled gun and left all my groceries there and ran out. I had no idea that people were allowed to open carry anywhere in Michigan. How very primitive. I had already experienced finding a black helicopter looming over my drive way one day and my neigbor(retired FBI) had left a message that there was a man in the neighborhood who had just killed his wife and was on the loose. I had a car full of groceries but my cats graciously covered me while I crouch-walked them into the house. It's like living in a 4th world country 200 years ago.
Well... that's what the republican heavy state decided to do in a recent election... you are staying true to form by trying to shift blame away from the political party with the clout in the state. It's reflects well upon you to call Alaskans, in general, stupid... we don't expect much better from your account. Sadly.
There's nothing of value to be found in constantly responding to your delusional and rabidly partisan beliefs... I'll just let you simmer in your own juices.
Yes, just leave them alone. I indulged in a full 4 ounces of beer this afternoon while enjoying all the shadenfreude of the post-Trump world watching the Republicans auger into the ground. Looking forward to tomorrow!
House Republicans began their new majority rule on Tuesday with a chaotic and historic debacle, an embarrassing failure to rally around a leader that showcased the difficulties they will face in performing even the basics of governing and their lack of a unifying agenda.
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The paralysis underscored the dilemma facing House Republicans: No matter the concessions made to some of those on the far right, they simply will not relent and join their colleagues even if it is for the greater good of their party, and perhaps the nation. They consider themselves conservative purists who cannot be placated unless all their demands are met — and maybe not even then. Their agenda is mostly to defund, disrupt and dismantle government, not to participate in it.
We've seen evidence of this agenda which became obvious during the Obama presidency and has grown since.
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As they sought a way out of their dilemma, some Republicans acknowledged the poor message they were sending with the stalemate but also said that it was likely to be a distant memory with voters once the leadership question was resolved.
“Just like everything in three months that becomes small ball, it becomes insignificant,” said Representative Ken Buck, Republican of Colorado. “In a year and a half, when people are starting to think about voting again, they are not thinking about that. They are thinking about what have we accomplished. It is more important to do things than it is to have a good first impression.”
I think Mr Buck is correct...by 2024 most republican voters will not remember these realities they will respond to the campaign advertising of the moment. We've also seen evidence of that behavior.
Some Russian lawmakers and military bloggers have pushed back against the swift assignment of blame, calling it an attempt by the military to fault the rank and file rather than their commanders. A number of influential bloggers criticized commanders for not taking basic precautions to protect troops, such as dispersing the newly arrived soldiers to safer locations and housing them away from munitions.
In its daily analysis, the British Defense Ministry said on Wednesday that the Makiivka attack showed how “unprofessional practices contribute to Russia’s high casualty rate,” noting the possibility that ammunition had been stored near the makeshift barracks, creating secondary explosions, as a main contributing factor to the extent of the damage.
“The Russian military has a record of unsafe ammunition storage from well before the current war,” the statement said.
The strike by Ukraine in Makiivka, using U.S.-supplied guided rockets, hit a vocational school that Russian soldiers had been using as a barracks. The Ukrainian military said that “about 400” troops had been killed but did not claim responsibility for the strike. On Wednesday, the Russian Defense Ministry put the death toll at 89, adjusted from its initial figure of 63, in a rare acknowledgment of casualties. A deputy commander of the regiment was among those killed, the ministry said.
None of the claims about deaths could be independently verified.
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Russian generals have spoken over unsecure phones and radios in the war, according to current and former American military officials, enabling the Ukrainians to locate and kill at least one general and his staff thorough an intercepted call.
But Andrei Medvedev, a Moscow lawmaker and state television host, wrote on Telegram that it was “predictable” the blame would be placed on individual soldiers. “Well, of course. It is not the commander who gave the order to place personnel in the vocational school building that is to blame,” he wrote.
A military blogger who writes under the moniker “Grey Zone” called the assessment that phone use led to the strike “99 percent a lie” and “an attempt to throw off the blame.” The blogger said that an intelligence failing was more likely the cause.
Outrage on Russian social media over the soldiers’ deaths was directed at senior officials but did not seem to extend to President Vladimir V. Putin.
Putin is still insulated from criticism in Russia...
Until now, mifepristone — the first pill used in the two-drug medication abortion regimen — could be dispensed only by a few mail-order pharmacies or by specially certified doctors or clinics. Under the new F.D.A. rules, patients will still need a prescription from a certified health care provider, but any pharmacy that agrees to accept those prescriptions and abide by certain other criteria can dispense the pills in its stores and by mail order.
The change comes as abortion pills, already used in more than half of pregnancy terminations in the U.S., are becoming even more sought after in the aftermath of last year’s Supreme Court decision overturning the federal right to abortion. With conservative states banning or sharply restricting abortion, the pills have increasingly become the focus of political and legal battles, which may influence a pharmacy’s decision about whether or not to dispense the medication.
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Whether large pharmacy chains and local drugstores would opt to make the pills available was not immediately clear Tuesday. A spokesman for Walgreens, Fraser Engerman, said the company would review the F.D.A.’s decision and would “continue to enable our pharmacists to dispense medications consistent with federal and state law.”
The steps for pharmacies to become certified to dispense mifepristone are not difficult, but they involve some administrative requirements that go beyond the process pharmacies use with most other medications, such as designating an employee to ensure compliance. Given the time and resources required by those steps, some pharmacies may not consider it worthwhile to offer a medication that only a small percentage of their customers may use.
Will conservative states try to change laws to discourage pharmacists from dispensing? That seems likely.
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Your recollection is yours... it reflects a larger struggle with reality. In my reality, Republican leadership in Alaska is trying to blame their recent losses on their voters inability to understand ranked choice voting. They aren't laughing at all... the voting was too hard for them... according to their own assessment.
Try again.