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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.

https://apnews.com/article/new-jersey-newark-bomb-threats-d0a59b80d460f9354f6bfe86f65475c6

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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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https://www.lifelongadoptions.com/adoption-statistics

Is our policy goal to put more infants and children into the adoption cycle? 

5% of all US adoptions are in the 0-2 year age group. When adoption is brokered by private adoption agencies and lawyers 62% of the adoptions involve children 1 month or less in age. 

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Adoption is certainly a real option for women who CHOOSE to carry a unwanted oregnancy to term. It is not justification for FORCING a woman into undergoing that. That would be slavery.

HiddenAngels said:

Not true.  Have you ever visited a home for teens that have been placed for adoption and grown up in a facility never to have been adopted.  It's heartbreaking to hear some of their stories.  But they still try and have hope.

It is true.  Why do you think people have to look overseas for babies to adopt?  Because there are not enough here.

heron said:

Adoption is certainly a real option for women who CHOOSE to carry an unwanted oregnancy to term. It is not justification for FORCING a woman into undergoing that. That would be slavery.

What do you term forced abortions?  Utopia?

heron said:

Yes ... and most pay the same taxes as their citizen counterparts, if not more.

How much taxes does a low wage earner pay?  It doesn't cover schooling for their children.  It doesn't cover medical expenses.  

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MaybeeRN said:

It is true.  Why do you think people have to look overseas for babies to adopt?  Because there are not enough here.

What do you term forced abortions?  Utopia?

So, you support slavery. Gotcha.

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MaybeeRN said:

How much taxes does a low wage earner pay?  It doesn't cover schooling for their children.  It doesn't cover medical expenses.  

 No one's taxes cover the services they receive. If they did, those services would be privatized. You are arguing that no low income wage earners should get social services?You are arguing the we are justified in taking hard-earned money from people and giving them nothing in return? That's theft.

heron said:

So, you support slavery. Gotcha.

No Margaret Sanger I don't support the Democrat party that lynched Emmit Till and murdered black men women, and children throughout the South.  And whose policies keep blacks incarcerated and continues to decimate families.

heron said:

 No one's taxes cover the services they receive. If they did, those ser ices would be privatized. You are arguing the we are justified in taking money from people and giving nothing in return. That's theft.

Plenty of people's taxes cover the services they receive.  Ask Buckhead near Atlanta why they want to leave that blue cesspool.  That's why the US has form I-864.  Educate yourself as to why that form exists or are you a free loader also?

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MaybeeRN said:

No Margaret Sanger I don't support the Democrat party that lynched Emmit Till and murdered black men women, and children throughout the South.  And whose policies keep blacks incarcerated and continues to decimate families.

Wish I had the impact Margaret Sanger had on reproductive rights. After all - she founded an organization that's been around more than 100 years and continues to promote women's reproductive freedom.

As for those democrats that that murdered Black people all through the South - the right-wing Southern Strategy turned them all into Republicans back in the 70s.

Stop trying to gerrymander history.

heron said:

Wish I had the impact Margaret Sanger had on reproductive rights. After all - she founded an organization that's been around more than 100 years and continues to promote women's reproductive freedom.

As for those democrats that that murdered Black people all through the South - the right-wing Southern Strategy turned them all into Republicans back in the 70s.

Stop trying to gerrymander history.

So you believe in eugenics.  Figures

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heron said:

Wish I had the impact Margaret Sanger had on reproductive rights. After all - she founded an organization that's been around more than 100 years and continues to promote women's reproductive freedom.

As for those democrats that that murdered Black people all through the South - the right-wing Southern Strategy turned them all into Republicans back in the 70s. They did so by pandering to their racism.

Stop trying to gerrymander history.

 

MaybeeRN said:

It is true.  Why do you think people have to look overseas for babies to adopt?  Because there are not enough here.

What do you term forced abortions?  Utopia?

They're looking overseas because most times they want a specific type of baby.  There are PLENTY of babies here.

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toomuchbaloney said:

https://www.lifelongadoptions.com/adoption-statistics

Is our policy goal to put more infants and children into the adoption cycle? 

5% of all US adoptions are in the 0-2 year age group. When adoption is brokered by private adoption agencies and lawyers 62% of the adoptions involve children 1 month or less in age. 

And it's increasingly difficult to find foster families.  Infants used to be easy but even they are becoming difficult.  Kids in foster homes always had to wait months to see a psychiatrist and now they are on waiting lists just to see any type of therapist.  The large majority of these kids end up homeless.  Their traumas are too numerous for the system to make a difference.  So I can't take any anti-abortionist as a serious person until they have either taken a kid or have worked in the system.  They are willfully ignorant of the suffering they create for kids.

 

 

 

 

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