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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.Yahoo.com/news/native-american-tribe-ditches-dirty-090000770.html

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To put that in perspective, that much electricity would be "enough clean energy to power more than 250,000 homes during peak generation," according to Sun Bear (or more reliably estimated as enough power for 215,000 homes, per the website). Construction will create up to 1,000 jobs and significant revenue for the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, per Electrek.

I think that there's only a couple thousand tribe members living on the reservation. 

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https://www.axios.com/2024/03/17/biden-state-of-the-union-invitation-republicans

Interesting.  Republicans think that Biden's remarks are/were too divisive. I wonder if they realize that they are projecting and that lots of us can recognize it for what it is. 

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toomuchbaloney said:

https://www.axios.com/2024/03/17/biden-state-of-the-union-invitation-republicans

Interesting.  Republicans think that Biden's remarks are/were too divisive. I wonder if they realize that they are projecting and that lots of us can recognize it for what it is. 

That's just dirty politics.  Presidents have long used the SOTU address to criticize across the aisle and promote their agenda.  The opposing party has long criticized the SOTU no matter which sitting president gives it.  Trump got booed during his SOTU address but Democrats never questioned that he wouldn't be giving it did they?  

Anyway, it will only make them look petulant on the chance Biden is re-elected and SOTU speech time comes as he will find a way to give it anyway, maybe not in congress, but he will do it.

 

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Tweety said:

That's just dirty politics.  Presidents have long used the SOTU address to criticize across the aisle and promote their agenda.  The opposing party has long criticized the SOTU no matter which sitting president gives it.  Trump got booed during his SOTU address but Democrats never questioned that he wouldn't be giving it did they?  

Anyway, it will only make them look petulant on the chance Biden is re-elected and SOTU speech time comes as he will find a way to give it anyway, maybe not in congress, but he will do it.

 

It makes them look petulant only outside of the cult. Those who isolate themselves to only media with a right wing bend will think it's perfectly justified and acceptable.  They're conditioned and groomed now to accept all manner of un-American or ideas as long as it's achieving some victory over their opponents. They prefer partisan lies to truth now.  

This talk of uninviting the sitting president from delivering the SOTU because you don't like his message or tone is pretty predictable for the political party that also wants to remove books from schools, silence inclusive language and teaching.  

All of this is motivation for Americans to vote against Republicans at every opportunity. 

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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mississippi-goon-squad-ex-deputy-gets-20-year-sentence-racist-torture-rcna144104

Holy cow. 

This suggests to me that casual racism isn't history in Mississippi, it's life. I wonder how many people the Goon Squad have victimized over the years.  

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toomuchbaloney said:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mississippi-goon-squad-ex-deputy-gets-20-year-sentence-racist-torture-rcna144104

Holy cow. 

This suggests to me that casual racism isn't history in Mississippi, it's life. I wonder how many people the Goon Squad have victimized over the years.  

What a sickening story.  Apparently he accepted responsibility and was given forgiveness by the victim.  He has plenty of time to ruminate on what he did.  Apparently some of the others will never see the outside of a jail cell.  

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https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/utah-man-stunned-bear-invades-alaskan-campsite-could-have-touched-it

This guy is a wildlife photographer from Utah but he's stunned that the bears around Brooks Falls might venture into the nearby campground? The way he behaved after encountering the bear made me wonder if he's had any bear safety instruction.  Did he walk away from camp alone without bear spray?

Yikes

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Bear looks hungry. Possibly just out of hibernation. 

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lifelearningrn said:

Bear looks hungry. Possibly just out of hibernation. 

The photos don't look like end of Winter photos on the peninsula.  

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toomuchbaloney said:

https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/utah-man-stunned-bear-invades-alaskan-campsite-could-have-touched-it

This guy is a wildlife photographer from Utah but he's stunned that the bears around Brooks Falls might venture into the nearby campground? The way he behaved after encountering the bear made me wonder if he's had any bear safety instruction.  Did he walk away from camp alone without bear spray?

Yikes

He was asking for a culling.

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https://www.axios.com/local/denver/2024/03/21/colorado-deaths-off-the-grid-rebecca-talon-vance

What a shame.  They were radicalized by crazy right wing BS about vaccines and global elites.  

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