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.
It didn't take long for the conservative economic policy to produce negative effects.
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Prime Minister Liz Truss of Britain campaigned as a tax cutter and champion of supply-side economics, and she won the race to replace her scandal-scarred predecessor, Boris Johnson. Now she has delivered that free-market agenda, and it may sink her government.
Four days after Ms. Truss’s tax cuts and deregulatory plans stunned financial markets and threw the British pound into a tailspin, the prime minister’s political future looks increasingly precarious as well.
Her Conservative Party is gripped by anxiety, with a new poll showing that the opposition Labour Party has taken a 17 percentage point lead over the Tories. It’s a treacherous place for a prime minister in only her third week on the job.
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“It’s entirely possible she could be replaced before the next election,” said Tim Bale, a professor of politics at Queen Mary University of London, who is an expert on the Conservative Party. “It would be very, very difficult to conduct a full-blown leadership contest again, but I wouldn’t rule anything out.”
That Ms. Truss should find herself in this predicament so soon after taking office attests to both the radical nature and awkward timing of her proposals. Cutting taxes at a time of near-double-digit inflation, when central banks in London and elsewhere are raising interest rates, was always going to mark Britain as an economic outlier.
But the government compounded the shock last Friday when the chancellor of the Exchequer, Kwasi Kwarteng, unexpectedly announced that the government would also abolish the top income tax rate of 45 percent applied to those earning more than 150,000 pounds, or about $164,000, a year.
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The International Monetary Fund, which bailed out Britain in 1976, added to the deepening sense of anxiety when it urged the British government to reconsider the tax cuts. In a statement, it said the cuts would exacerbate inequality and lead to fiscal policy and monetary policy working at “cross purposes.”
Already, the specter of higher interest rates was causing the housing market to seize up. Two major British mortgage lenders announced that they would stop offering new loans because of the market volatility. Higher rates will hurt hundreds of thousands of homeowners who need to refinance fixed-term mortgages — property owners, analysts noted, who are the bedrock of the Conservative Party.
Activists driven by false theories about election fraud are working to toss out tens of thousands of voter registrations and ballots in battleground states, part of a loosely coordinated campaign that is sowing distrust and threatening further turmoil as election officials prepare for the November midterms.
Groups in Georgia have challenged at least 65,000 voter registrations across eight counties, claiming to have evidence that voters’ addresses were incorrect. In Michigan, an activist group tried to challenge 22,000 ballots from voters who had requested absentee ballots for the state’s August primary. And in Texas, residents sent in 116 affidavits challenging the eligibility of more than 6,000 voters in Harris County, which is home to Houston and is the state’s largest county.
The recent wave of challenges have been filed by right-wing activists who believe conspiracy theories about fraud in the 2020 presidential election. They claim to be using state laws that allow people to question whether a voter is eligible. But so far, the vast majority of the complaints have been rejected, in many cases because election officials found the challenges were filed incorrectly, rife with bad information or based on flawed data analysis.
Republican-aligned groups have long pushed to aggressively cull the voter rolls, claiming that inaccurate registrations can lead to voter fraud — although examples of such fraud are exceptionally rare. Voting rights groups say the greater concern is inadvertently purging an eligible voter from the rolls.
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34 minutes ago, Beerman said:
This didn't catch anyone's attention today?
Seriously?
It apparently caught everyone's attention. A good portion of the White House press briefing was devoted to it. I can only imagine that social media is teeming with "attention".
It apparently caught everyone's attention. A good portion of the White House press briefing was devoted to it. I can only imagine that social media is teeming with "attention".
I can only imagine as well. I've only seen clips of the WH press corp continually ask what was going on. Was it confusion, fatigue, misspoke? Was it a "teleprompter error"? They were serving up an out for Pierre, and she wasn't even asute enough to take it.
Biden was looking around the room for a dead congresswomen. And mumbling to get to that point. At this point, anyone who makes excuses for or deflects from his mental decline, is a effin moron. You'd have a bit more credibility simply ignoring it.
I can only imagine as well. I've only seen clips of the WH press corp continually ask what was going on. Was it confusion, fatigue, misspoke? Was it a "teleprompter error"? They were serving up an out for Pierre, and she wasn't even asute enough to take it.
Biden was looking around the room for a dead congresswomen. And mumbling to get to that point. At this point, anyone who makes excuses for or deflects from his mental decline, is a effin moron. You'd have a bit more credibility simply ignoring it.
I'll give you this.
Although I don't think he was mumbling, but clearly asked for her. The excuse from the press secretary was painful to watch.
I was expecting Fox News to be all over it but it's not on their front page. I'm sure the hosts will be all over it in the talk shows though.
There is some gaffe about Harris being in Asia and not mentioning the border crisis.
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7 hours ago, Beerman said:
I can only imagine as well. I've only seen clips of the WH press corp continually ask what was going on. Was it confusion, fatigue, misspoke? Was it a "teleprompter error"? They were serving up an out for Pierre, and she wasn't even asute enough to take it.
Biden was looking around the room for a dead congresswomen. And mumbling to get to that point. At this point, anyone who makes excuses for or deflects from his mental decline, is a effin moron. You'd have a bit more credibility simply ignoring it.
Right wing radio must have tipped you off, eh?
Yep, the press Corp were all over it.
I lost a sister, a brother in law, a cousin and my best friend during the pandemic. I still frequently think of and talk about my friend as if he's still here. It's embarrassingly emotional from time to time when I open my mouth about Jon and suddenly realize that he's dead. Those of us who suffer through this season of death may be more forgiving but...
It's entirely possible that Biden is suffering cognitive decline related to age and stress. Maybe Harris will get to run in 24 as an encumbant. It would take much more suggestion or evidence of cognitive loss to put Biden anywhere near the erratic and unstable state of the former guy in the last days of that unprecedented presidency. The people who elevated and still support that dangerously unstable and mentally ill man are concerned about the cognitive function of Biden and they remind us regularly just like we regularly remind them that Trump was the worst choice in that election (on every level he was worst).
If Biden is unable to complete his term or carry out his daily duties, the VP will assume the roll. We've practiced this a few times, there's a constitutional remedy.
Do we get to call people who ignored and panned Trump's disqualifying character flaws and would vote for him again, "effin morons" or will "indoctrinated" cover it? Because an old but politically competent patriot is still measurably better in the presidency than an old but corrupt and incompetent conman.
Do we get to call people who ignored and panned Trump's disqualifying character flaws and would vote for him again, "effin morons" or will "indoctrinated" cover it? Because an old but politically competent patriot is still measurably better in the presidency than an old but corrupt and incompetent conman.
That's a deflection, but I'm pretty sure we've already said those things. LOL
At best Biden was unprepared and didn't know what he was talking about which is sad in an of itself. Often other people are doing the staging and writing. At worst he has dementia, is incompetent and is unfit for president.
But I agree, anyone that would vote for Trump again is an effin moron.
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2 minutes ago, Tweety said:
That's a deflection, but I'm pretty sure we've already said those things. LOL
No kidding? I'm just pointing out the hypocrisy of conservatives who whine about labels and name calling... at least this time he didn't call us libtards when he felt salty.
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Truss Takes a Bold Economic Gamble. Will It Sink Her Government? https://nyti.ms/3LP7NNJ
It didn't take long for the conservative economic policy to produce negative effects.