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.
I think it's long because it used to require days for the important people to travel for the funeral. The monarchy maintained order in the transition with the ceremony and ritual and displays of finery.
There was quite a bit of pomp when we buried Kennedy. Do you remember?
with the almost ritualistic throwback to BLM protests and now SCOTUS protests not that it contributes anything but a snide off comment.
Back on track, you're right about that bussing out undocumented immigrants to ease the border isn't really new. Only it's been a more coordinated approach. But not everyone likes that idea. I'm reminded of the people protesting the busloads entering California. But it was Obama, who was disliked by immigrant advocates for his high rate of deportation, while being disliked by conservatives for allowing illegal children into the country, so easing the situation at the border like this had to be wrong. It looks like the reception in Mass. was a bit different.
I was and I don't even remember it. It was 59 years ago. But we have buried some Presidents since then and I imagine ex-President Carter might be the next one as he's in his late 90's. It's a big deal.
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I was in the 7th or 8th grade. We got sent home from school. I remember standing that afternoon in the middle of the living room floor and watching our b+w TV set with Walter Cronkite. Also watched the funeral. I was stunned by it all.
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57 minutes ago, No Stars In My Eyes said:
I was in the 7th or 8th grade. We got sent home from school. I remember standing that afternoon in the middle of the living room floor and watching our b+w TV set with Walter Cronkite. Also watched the funeral. I was stunned by it all.
The first threat is acute: a growing movement inside one of the country’s two major parties — the Republican Party — to refuse to accept defeat in an election.
The violent Jan. 6, 2021, attack on Congress, meant to prevent the certification of President Biden’s election, was the clearest manifestation of this movement, but it has continued since then. Hundreds of elected Republican officials around the country falsely claim that the 2020 election was rigged. Some of them are running for statewide offices that would oversee future elections, potentially putting them in position to overturn an election in 2024 or beyond.
“There is the possibility, for the first time in American history, that a legitimately elected president will not be able to take office,” said Yascha Mounk, a political scientist at Johns Hopkins University who studies democracy.
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The second threat to democracy is chronic but also growing: The power to set government policy is becoming increasingly disconnected from public opinion.
The run of recent Supreme Court decisions — both sweeping and, according to polls, unpopular — highlight this disconnect. Although the Democratic Party has won the popular vote in seven of the past eight presidential elections, a Supreme Court dominated by Republican appointees seems poised to shape American politics for years, if not decades. And the court is only one of the means through which policy outcomes are becoming less closely tied to the popular will.
These are perilous times.
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The acute threats to democracy — and the rise of authoritarian sentiment, or at least the acceptance of it, among many voters — have different causes. They partly reflect frustration over nearly a half-century of slow-growing living standards for the American working class and middle class. They also reflect cultural fears, especially among white people, that the United States is being transformed into a new country, more racially diverse and less religious, with rapidly changing attitudes toward gender, language and more.
The coach was never fired, he was put on paid leave. He was hired on a year to year basis and he never reapplied. The school district has offered to let him come back, but apparently he is too busy making political appearances. His lawyer claimed six times in front of the Supreme Court that the coach was fired. When opposing council called these lies, "Justice Samuel Alito interrupted him, saying 'I know that you want to make this very complicated.'"
A federal judge in Texas just ruled that requiring employers to provide coverage of HIV meds is unconstitutional. Go to npr.org - the article was published on Sept.7, 2022.
Not sure what I think about it yet. My first reaction was oh, goddess, it’s starting again. I was a staff nurse at a college health service in Boston during the middle 80s at the beginning of the epidemic. I went from there in ‘87 to the only dedicated HIV inpatient unit in New England and stayed until ‘98.
Whooping cough, Covid, measles, polio … all have all started popping up again since prevention, especially vaccines, is getting less accessible or utilized effectively. Trust me … you don’t want untreated HIV loose again. The butcher’s bill is growing exponentially. Something tells me that we going to be seeing some fancy cost shifting going on.
On the other hand, I’m not at all comfortable with having healthcare tied to employment or the government. I don’t think it’s fair to small businesses and it totally reeks for employees.
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45 minutes ago, heron said:
A federal judge in Texas just ruled that requiring employers to provide coverage of HIV meds is unconstitutional. Go to npr.org - the article was published on Sept.7, 2022.
Not sure what I think about it yet. My first reaction was oh, goddess, it’s starting again. I was a staff nurse at a college health service in Boston during the middle 80s at the beginning of the epidemic. I went from there in ‘87 to the only dedicated HIV inpatient unit in New England and stayed until ‘98.
Whooping cough, Covid, measles, polio … all have all started popping up again since prevention, especially vaccines, is getting less accessible or utilized effectively. Trust me … you don’t want untreated HIV loose again. The butcher’s bill is growing exponentially. Something tells me that we going to be seeing some fancy cost shifting going on.
On the other hand, I’m not at all comfortable with having healthcare tied to employment or the government. I don’t think it’s fair to small businesses and it totally reeks for employees.
A federal judge in Fort Worth agreed Wednesday with a group of Christian conservatives that Affordable Care Act requirements to cover HIV prevention drugs violate their religious freedom.
U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor also agreed that aspects of the federal government’s system for deciding what preventive care is covered by the ACA violates the Constitution.
U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor’s ruling could threaten access to sexual and reproductive health care for more than 150 million working Americans on employer-sponsored health care plans. The ruling will likely be appealed....
...In the suit, a group of self-described Christian business owners and employees in Texas argue that the preventive care mandates violate their constitutional right to religious freedom by requiring companies and policyholders to pay for coverage that conflicts with their faith and personal values.
The lawsuit was filed in 2020 by Austin attorney Jonathan Mitchell, the legal mind behind Texas’ civilly enforced six-week abortion ban. In the suit, Mitchell also challenges the entire framework through which the federal government decides what preventive services get covered. ,,,
PrEP reduces the risk of getting HIV by 99% when taken as recommended, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In spite of the assertions by the Christian group in Texas, the CDC also says that 1 in 5 new cases are in women, not men who have sex with men.
“The virus doesn’t choose who to infect, it can infect anyone,” said Dr. Satish Mocherla, an infectious disease specialist at Legacy Community Health Services in Houston. “So why a particular demographic is being targeted is a mystery to us.”
And contrary to what the lawsuit asserts, PrEP does not “facilitate or encourage homosexual behavior,” said John Carlo, CEO of Prism Health North Texas and former public health director of Dallas County. “PrEP prevention research shows that its use does not increase risky behaviors or cause people to have more sex or use more intravenous drugs when using it,” Carlo said. “This is well studied.”,,,
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LOL I wasn’t born yet