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.
When anti-abortion groups wanted to challenge the Food and Drug Administration's approval of an abortion-inducing drug, they didn't file the lawsuit in Maryland, where the FDA is headquartered, or in any state where the pill is still legally prescribed.
They filed it in Amarillo, a Texas city that didn't have an abortion clinic even before the state all but banned the procedure.
But Amarillo does have a federal courthouse with, importantly, just one federal judge presiding. U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk hears 95% of the cases filed in Amarillo.
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The Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, the anti-abortion group challenging the FDA's approval of mifepristone, is based in Tennessee. But the group incorporated an Amarillo outpost in August 2022, records from the Texas Secretary of State's office show, three months before filing the lawsuit. One of the plaintiffs is a doctor from Dumas, north of Amarillo, who claims he and his patients have been harmed by the FDA's approval of the medication.
What would these Republicans do if they had to tell the truth and play on a level field?
Is it indoctrination when the government dictates the things that can be talked about in schools?
Of course it is ... this expansion is the natural progression of the kind of mentality that supports mandatory Christian revival meetings in high school.
Back in the day, I used to do speaking gigs for a sex workers advocacy group. I would often hear the argument that, since Christians are a majority, that they have the right to make laws enforcing their moral beliefs. I would then ask how strong could their belief be if they needed the force of the state to validate it? Never did get an answer to that one.
I wonder if it ever occurred to them that, since their tradition says that their god gave humanity free will, attempting to force others to conform to their beliefs might be a tad ... problematic.
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heron said:
Of course it is ... this expansion is the natural progression of the kind of mentality that supports mandatory Christian revival meetings in high school.
Back in the day, I used to do speaking gigs for a sex workers advocacy group. I would often hear the argument that, since Christians are a majority, that they have the right to make laws enforcing their moral beliefs. I would then ask how strong could their belief be if they needed the force of the state to validate it?
I wonder if it ever occurred to them that, since their tradition says that their god gave humanity free will, attempting to force others to conform to their beliefs might be a tad sinful.
Evangelical Christian groups in the USA are poisoned by authoritarian proclivities, IMV. When you put them in an environment where authoritarian thinking and action is celebrated, they often push societal limits.
The problem is, true free will is profoundly terrifying. It means having to accept and respect choices and beliefs that are different from, and challenge the truth of one's own.
One of the things I treasure about Paganism as a religious tradition is that there's plenty of room on the altar.
"What kind of person can charge another person, in this case a former President of the United States, who got more votes than any sitting President in history, and leading candidate (by far!) for the Republican Party nomination, with a Crime, when it is known by all that NO Crime has been committed, & also known that potential death & destruction in such a false charge could be catastrophic for our Country?" Trump wrote.
"Why & who would do such a thing? Only a degenerate psychopath that truly hates the USA!" he said.
In a separate Truth Social post on Thursday, Trump suggested that there could be "years of hatred, chaos, and turmoil" if he is arrested as part of Bragg's probe.
The former president has long thrived on chaos and turmoil as he's successfully portrayed himself to his supporters as a victim of the establishment, the "deep state," and liberal forces.
...Trump and his team have been working hard to seek political gain from the threat of a potential indictment, using social media posts and media comments to rally the MAGA base around the former president and boost grassroots fundraising for his 2024 campaign....
...As he bids a third time for the White House, Trump's concentrating his campaign in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada, the first four states to hold contests in the GOP presidential nominating calendar. And experienced Republican strategists in early voting states say that the indictment, at least initially, could provide a temporary boost for Trump....
NO info in the article about rally details scheduled for this Saturday in Waco, Texas. Thirty years ago, a fiery federal raid on the Branch Davidian doomsday sect turned the city into a symbol of government overreach. Joanna and Chip Gaines Fixer Upper TV show and Magnolia Market shopping destination has changed the tenor of how Waco is viewed today. Will be interested if area still fundamentalist and rally attendance; last rally only 1/2 venue filled. Fox and WSJ coverage Murdoch's publications definitely pulling away from promoting Trump.
NO info in the article about rally details scheduled for this Saturday in Waco, Texas. Thirty years ago, a fiery federal raid on the Branch Davidian doomsday sect turned the city into a symbol of government overreach. Joanna and Chip Gaines Fixer Upper TV show and Magnolia Market shopping destination has changed the tenor of how Waco is viewed today. Will be interested if area still fundamentalist and rally attendance; last rally only 1/2 venue filled. Fox and WSJ coverage Murdoch's publications definitely pulling away from promoting Trump.
Trump is in a political downward spiral as he is confronted with serious accountability, possibly for the first time in his privileged life. I suspect that his rhetoric will become more and more violent, until he is ordered to shut up with a gag order.
Even though Trump's fan base is shrinking, he continues to influence a very indoctrinated group of Americans who are triggered by his words. Those people have proven to be susceptible to manipulation by lies and emotionally stoked propaganda, and some of them are inclined toward violence. Who knows how many and how organized they are?
What's interesting to me is that while he was planning to retain lost power Trump actually told people that he had House Republicans working for him (in so many words). Those House Republicans are now doing that Trump work very openly. All of Jordan's committee work appears to be centered on Trump's lies and grievance, for instance. Right down to interfering in a state investigation and threatening the DA with funding changes.
"The president said, 'just say the election was corrupt. And leave the rest of me and the Republican congressman,'" Kinzinger said. "That's a direct quote from President Trump?"
"Correct, " Donaghue said. "That's an exact quote from President. Yes."
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heron said:
The problem is, true free will is profoundly terrifying. It means having to accept and respect choices and beliefs that are different from, and challenge the truth of one's own.
One of the things I treasure about Paganism as a religious tradition is that there's plenty of room on the altar.
Once again, "Christians" have aligned themselves with dangerous authoritarians.
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Senior U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan overseeing E.Jean Carroll's rape case has decided on an anonymous jury to protect those involved from Trumps wrath.
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NRSKarenRN said:
Senior U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan overseeing E.Jena Caroll's rape case has decided on an anonymous jury to protect those involved from Trumps wrath.
I wonder when someone is going to charge him for obstructing justice? There are 10+ cases collecting dust already, right?
2. No one said the Canadian material was moot, just that it's not necessarily reflecting American culture on this cultural discussion.
3. YOU are the member who persisted in assigning some blame in this matter... you used the word caused in one of your comment and then reworded and tried again... now you try to project that inability to "get past" the policy reference on me? That's richly hypocritical and wildly dishonest. Well done. I'll wait for the suggestion that you've just been attacked after I call attention to your passive aggressive tactics.
4. Your moral outrage over my lack of adequate empathy is noted. It's also irrelevant.
5. Just for the record, there's far, far many more women and children who do not report their often repeated abuse and assault by heterosexual men than who will EVER have that fear because of a transwoman experience. Larry Nassar himself probably represents more cases. I'm not dismissing those comparatively few trans experiences, you are magnifying them.
6. People who seek to pass the bathroom laws targeting transwomen and women's bathrooms are essentially saying this thing that you suggested; "oh it is too bad transwomen suffer harm by having to use the bathrooms and intimate areas according to their genitalia". And don't worry, " if they get raped, that's against the law and the rapist should be charged"? There already a law against rape do if it happens they should report it . So go use the bathroom according to your genitals. If it causes emotional harm, go see a psychologist."
Isn't that last bit EXACTLY what the bathroom laws convey? Was that the point you were making was that those republican laws are harmful and indifferent to the harm?
7. I gave you solutions the moment you asked. Don't tell untruths.
To summarize; let them pee where they feel safe, apply appropriate laws as needed, tell the scared people to look away, mind their own business and educate their world on the spectrum of "normal" in ALL aspects of sapient function and characteristics so that they can learn empathy and tolerance rather than feeling fear or anxiety.
8. Gender neutral bathrooms are great. Until they are found in all businesses and public areas, let the transgirls use the bathroom that is best for their safety and comfort. We don't need new laws. Rape and exposure and assault are all already against the law. Transfolk aren't the problem, this new culture war anxiety is the problem.
9. I'll say it again. Transpeople are not new to our society. The current right wing angst over increased acceptance of them in our society is the problem and is manufactured. You, yourself could not produce evidence that there is any history of or current public problem with transwomen conduct in bathrooms or locker rooms... only a few isolated events over years. A few cases or reports of misconduct as compared to laws introduced in more than a dozen states coupled with vitriolic right wing rhetoric in social media settings. The concern is much greater than the actual threat... considering that Tranwomen don't really represent threat to those around them.
And you are saying it's too bad women and girls who have to see, not chose to see intact male genitalia. How do you look away when you walk in and look and there it is? Or are you suggesting women and children a natural voyeurs? No one want to see that. Any curiosity can be satisfied on the internet.
So what I think you are saying is that transgender women with intact genitalia should be discreet in women's intimate spaces. If they expose their intact member and testicle, even if just changing, they should be charged with indecency crime? I agree with that. If women and children are curious? What stops the transwoman from being curious as well?
Again, people have freedom of speech so they can say whatever they wish on social media. Why don't you protest your issues with freedom of speech, thought and religion? You seem to take issue with all.
toomuchbaloney said:
If you actually read my comments you would know what my ideas are. That agitated comment makes it appear that you don't read the discussion and instead just skim so that you can mouth off to the liberals in the thread. No wonder you do often seem confused as to what has been said back and forth.
I agree, I think you are finished in this discussion.
Your opinion is noted. And it is irrelevant. I don't assume peoples political affiliation. You do. Probably race and gender too.
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https://www.texastribune.org/2023/03/15/federal-judge-amarillo-abortion-fda/
Judge shopping.
What would these Republicans do if they had to tell the truth and play on a level field?