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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16 minutes ago, Tweety said:
When I leave the work force it will be for good. A lot of retirees here get some part gigs as baggers in grocery stores but it might be to pass the time rather than financial necessity.
No for the long term, offering retirees an incentive to work isn't a solution. Immigration support is one solution but we aren't about that even though there are literally thousands of people knocking at our doors to work.
We are about immigration, we are a nation of immigrants, where no indigenous individual has ever held the highest positions of authority. Haaland is the native American holding the highest office. We struggle with a segment of our population that doesn't want to fix our immigration laws while also demonizing immigrants who enter through our southern border.
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
During the Wayne County training call, obtained by CNN, the presumption that Democrats cheat -- thus justifying Republican rule-breaking -- permeated the discussion. It offers a snapshot of one of the ways Trump-backing, MAGA-minded conspiracy theorists are intervening in the election process across the country, sometimes encouraging poll workers or volunteer observers to violate election rules in hopes of finding evidence that Democrats might be doing the same.
It's an approach election experts fear could spur chaos and conflict in November's mid-term elections and in 2024.
"There is no exception to following the laws; there is no 'two wrongs make a right,'" said Wendy Weiser, a vice president at The Brennan Center for Justice, which tracks potential insider threats to the election process. Weiser said the center is seeing a spread in efforts by election deniers to infiltrate and manipulate the voting and vote counting process.
"If poll workers are not committed to following the law, to following the directions of election officials, to protecting the integrity of the election process, they can do serious harm," Weiser said.
The consumers of right wing media are easily convinced that democrats cheat in elections (without actual evidence) and that belief allows them to justify breaking rules and laws during the election. A certain percentage of those misled citizens will then proceed to break election laws and create chaos around elections.
These are perilous times. Our republic and democratic processes and norms are under attack by people identifying as Republicans.
The United States is the oldest democracy in the world if you count how many years we've had an elected government. (Mind you of course not all races and genders could vote, so you can argue we're not that old of a democracy). It saddens me to see that suddenly we're so corrupt and that "election experts fear could spur chaos and conflict in November's mid-term elections and in 2024." I wish that they were being overly dramatic because that's how it sounds.
In my heart of hearts, I still have faith in Democracy and that the elections will be peaceful, fair, legitimate, and the results accepted by the large majority of voters. Although the mass belief that Trump won the election stupefies me, so my faith is being whittled away.
Attorneys for two men convicted of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer sent private investigators to a juror's workplace, hoping to uncover pre-trial bias by that panelist, court filings revealed.
Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr., found guilty last month on federal charges connected to the plot, want new trials based on "the appearance of judicial bias which impacted the proceedings," according to newly unsealed papers.
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8 minutes ago, Tweety said:
The United States is the oldest democracy in the world if you count how many years we've had an elected government. (Mind you of course not all races and genders could vote, so you can argue we're not that old of a democracy). It saddens me to see that suddenly we're so corrupt and that election officials " election experts fear could spur chaos and conflict in November's mid-term elections and in 2024."
In my heart of hearts, I still have faith in Democracy and that the elections will be peaceful, fair, legitimate, and the results accepted by the large majority of voters. Although the mass belief that Trump won the election stupefies me.
Isn't that belief without supporting facts evidence of indoctrination? It's dangerous when that indoctrination is accompanied by extremism and radicalized threats/mentions of violence.
HIMARS, short for High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, is a five-ton truck that can fire long-range guided rockets. The Pentagon announced it was sending the first of four launchers to Kyiv, Ukraine, at the beginning of June, about six weeks after it started providing 155-millimeter howitzers and ammunition.
Since then, the United States has sent Kyiv a total of 126 such howitzers and authorized shipments of up to 807,000 rounds of ammunition for them to fire.
Ukraine now has 26 advanced mobile launchers that can fire rockets even farther than those howitzers can — 16 HIMARS vehicles from the United States and 10 older American-made M270 launchers that Britain and Germany provided.
Russia is having some difficulty maintaining the Ukrainian territory that they've occupied. These weapons are difficult for Russia to match as they struggle to keep their dwindling troops supplied.
Protect the patients from accessing health care in a timely and affordable fashion?
MD's have long resisted advanced practitioners. I don't think it's fair to hold up a case of someone missing something when there are probably 1000 other examples of MDs missing a diagnosis.
I used to see an NP for my annual physicals for several years in my MD's practice and at the time I was on no medications and felt perfectly fine with this situation. (I'm now on something for insomnia). I'm with a different doctor and see him now.
We have NPs and PA's in our ER. They see the less complicated cases and the MD's see the traumas and serious issues. Seems to work out. Like you said they give access to health care in a timely manner. There just aren't enough doctors for our sickly population and some of our care isn't all that complicated that an NP or PA can't handle.
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I always used to say that when I retired and couldn't retire...I'd be bagging groceries. (Hardeeharhar !) But right now I can't think of any part-time job that wouldn't be aggravating all my "Itis's (shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips, knees, ankles). Can't be on my feet for a long while without causing my lower back to ache and cry. Hopefully I will not need to get any employment soon. I'd just as soon not be doing patient care.
I'm not a movie critic, but I like going to and streaming movies. I'll pass on this one, not just because of the anti-Biden bias, but it just looks like a bad movie.
Hunter Biden’s life has made it to the big screen—or at least to the computer screens of anyone willing to pay $21.99 to watch My Son Hunter, a dramatization of the presidential son’s shady business deals and drug abuse, released Wednesday. Distributed by Breitbart, My Son Hunter is probably the best conservative movie to emerge from the right-wing media in recent memory.
Regular readers know that the burden of proof falls on the person or entity making the claim. We tried to verify the ad’s accusation that “every dollar” Trump has raised from his supporters has been diverted for personal and business purposes. Actually, he has spent little of what he raised, and thus far there is no evidence he has steered the funds for his own benefit.
Fact checking anti-Trump rhetoric from the Lincoln Project.
Side note, interesting that Trump is sitting on 100 million in donations and that he can use them to pay his lawyers.
MD's have long resisted advanced practitioners. I don't think it's fair to hold up a case of someone missing something when there are probably 1000 other examples of MDs missing a diagnosis.
I used to see an NP for my annual physicals for several years in my MD's practice and at the time I was on no medications and felt perfectly fine with this situation. (I'm now on something for insomnia). I'm with a different doctor and see him now.
We have NPs and PA's in our ER. They see the less complicated cases and the MD's see the traumas and serious issues. Seems to work out. Like you said they give access to health care in a timely manner. There just aren't enough doctors for our sickly population and some of our care isn't all that complicated that an NP or PA can't handle.
Agree with this. I used to see the MD at my office but switched to the NP because I can get a timely appointment.
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We are about immigration, we are a nation of immigrants, where no indigenous individual has ever held the highest positions of authority. Haaland is the native American holding the highest office. We struggle with a segment of our population that doesn't want to fix our immigration laws while also demonizing immigrants who enter through our southern border.
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"