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they whined when the retards at fox said something along the lines of "mexico and 3 other mexican countries" and then come and say "hispanics are just a mexican dish"
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Escucha me, ella esta muy brava no embarazado!
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If you have items in a faraday bag it might work. idk.
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COVID is still a thing?
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Unfortunately yes, but it's taken a heavy back-seat to other shit. The news, even local ones, still like to remind people it exists every now and then
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Hey, I ask all my pendejo Mexican friends here in AZ "What kind of taco are you, Carne or Pollo?" Nobody has shot me. Yet.
It's just Mexican language of love mi poquito tamale!
Seriously, how fucking retarded do you have to be to make a comment like that?
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Article 1
Article: https://longisland.news12.com/biden-celebration-of-new-gun-law-clouded-by-latest-shooting
Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/2022071...ion-of-new-gun-law-clouded-by-latest-shooting
Article 2
Article: https://longisland.news12.com/biden-admin-docs-must-offer-abortion-if-moms-life-at-risk
Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/2022071...docs-must-offer-abortion-if-moms-life-at-risk
And since NYC was brought up...
Article 3
Article: https://longisland.news12.com/alert...own-as-chief-judge-of-new-yorks-highest-court
Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/2022071...own-as-chief-judge-of-new-yorks-highest-court
Article: https://longisland.news12.com/biden-celebration-of-new-gun-law-clouded-by-latest-shooting
Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/2022071...ion-of-new-gun-law-clouded-by-latest-shooting
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday hailed a new bipartisan law meant to reduce gun violence as “real progress," but said “more has to be done” after just 16 days in effect, that legislation already has been overshadowed by yet another mass shooting.
The bill, passed after recent gun rampages in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, incrementally toughens requirements for young people to buy guns, denies firearms to more domestic abusers, and helps local authorities temporarily take weapons from people judged to be dangerous.
But the “celebration” Monday morning at the White House came a week after a gunman in Highland Park, Illinois, killed seven people at an Independence Day parade, a stark reminder of the limitations of the new law in addressing the American phenomenon of mass gun violence. And it comes as Democratic governors have taken up the mantle of offering outrage in the face of gun violence.
Biden hosted hundreds of guests on the South Lawn, including a bipartisan group of lawmakers who crafted and supported the legislation, as well as local officials — including Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering — as well as the families of victims of both mass shootings and everyday gun violence.
“Because of your work, your advocacy, your courage, lives will be saved today and tomorrow because of this," Biden said.
Biden on Saturday invited Americans to share with him via text — a new White House communications strategy — their stories of how they've been impacted by gun violence, tweeting that “I’m hosting a celebration of the passage of the Safer Communities Act." He told some of their stories on Monday of people traumatized by shootings and kids left orphaned by gun violence.
The law is the the most impactful firearms violence measure Congress has approved since enacting a now-expired assault weapons ban in 1993. Yet gun control advocates — and even White House officials — say it's premature to declare victory.
“There's simply not much to celebrate here,” said Igor Volsky, director of the private group Guns Down America.
“It’s historic, but it’s also the very bare minimum of what Congress should do,” Volsky said. “And as we were reminded by the shooting on July 4, and there’s so many other gun deaths that have occurred since then, the crisis of of gun violence is just far more urgent.”
Volsky’s group, along with other gun violence advocacy groups, was set to host a news conference on Monday outside the White House calling on Biden to stand up a dedicated office at the White House to address gun violence with a greater sense of urgency.
Biden has left gun control policy to his Domestic Policy Council, rather than establishing a dedicated office like he stood up to address climate change or the gender policy council he established to promote reproductive health access.
“We have a president who really hasn’t met the moment, who has chosen to act as a bystander on this issue,” Volsky said. “For some reason the administration absolutely refuses to have a senior official who can drive this issue across government.”
The president signed the bipartisan gun bill into law on June 25, calling it “a historic achievement" at the time.
On Monday, Biden said the law's passage should be a call to action for further action to reduce gun violence.
“Will we match thoughts and prayers with action," Biden asked. “I say yes. And that’s what we’re doing here today.”
White House officials said Biden doesn't see the passage of the bill as the finish line, but rather a foundation that needs to be built on. The Illinois shooting occurred nine days after the bill signing.
“I recently signed the first major bipartisan gun reform legislation in almost 30 years into law, which includes actions that will save lives,” Biden said after July 4th shooting. “But there is much more work to do, and I’m not going to give up fighting the epidemic of gun violence.”
On Friday, Biden responded to the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe by taking note of how the shooting had shocked people in Japan. The country has a strikingly low incidence of gun violence compared to the U.S., which has experienced thousands of gun deaths already this year.
Most of the new law's $13 billion in spending would be used for bolstering mental health programs and for schools, which have been targeted by shooters in Newtown, Connecticut; Parkland, Florida; and many other gun massacres. It was the product of weeks of closed-door negotiations by a bipartisan group of senators who emerged with a compromise.
It does not include far tougher restrictions that Democrats and Biden have long championed, such as a ban on assault-type weapons and background checks for all gun transactions. Biden on Monday was expected to reiterate his call for those tougher measures, but prospects are slim for any further congressional action.
The bill, passed after recent gun rampages in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, incrementally toughens requirements for young people to buy guns, denies firearms to more domestic abusers, and helps local authorities temporarily take weapons from people judged to be dangerous.
But the “celebration” Monday morning at the White House came a week after a gunman in Highland Park, Illinois, killed seven people at an Independence Day parade, a stark reminder of the limitations of the new law in addressing the American phenomenon of mass gun violence. And it comes as Democratic governors have taken up the mantle of offering outrage in the face of gun violence.
Biden hosted hundreds of guests on the South Lawn, including a bipartisan group of lawmakers who crafted and supported the legislation, as well as local officials — including Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering — as well as the families of victims of both mass shootings and everyday gun violence.
“Because of your work, your advocacy, your courage, lives will be saved today and tomorrow because of this," Biden said.
Biden on Saturday invited Americans to share with him via text — a new White House communications strategy — their stories of how they've been impacted by gun violence, tweeting that “I’m hosting a celebration of the passage of the Safer Communities Act." He told some of their stories on Monday of people traumatized by shootings and kids left orphaned by gun violence.
The law is the the most impactful firearms violence measure Congress has approved since enacting a now-expired assault weapons ban in 1993. Yet gun control advocates — and even White House officials — say it's premature to declare victory.
“There's simply not much to celebrate here,” said Igor Volsky, director of the private group Guns Down America.
“It’s historic, but it’s also the very bare minimum of what Congress should do,” Volsky said. “And as we were reminded by the shooting on July 4, and there’s so many other gun deaths that have occurred since then, the crisis of of gun violence is just far more urgent.”
Volsky’s group, along with other gun violence advocacy groups, was set to host a news conference on Monday outside the White House calling on Biden to stand up a dedicated office at the White House to address gun violence with a greater sense of urgency.
Biden has left gun control policy to his Domestic Policy Council, rather than establishing a dedicated office like he stood up to address climate change or the gender policy council he established to promote reproductive health access.
“We have a president who really hasn’t met the moment, who has chosen to act as a bystander on this issue,” Volsky said. “For some reason the administration absolutely refuses to have a senior official who can drive this issue across government.”
The president signed the bipartisan gun bill into law on June 25, calling it “a historic achievement" at the time.
On Monday, Biden said the law's passage should be a call to action for further action to reduce gun violence.
“Will we match thoughts and prayers with action," Biden asked. “I say yes. And that’s what we’re doing here today.”
White House officials said Biden doesn't see the passage of the bill as the finish line, but rather a foundation that needs to be built on. The Illinois shooting occurred nine days after the bill signing.
“I recently signed the first major bipartisan gun reform legislation in almost 30 years into law, which includes actions that will save lives,” Biden said after July 4th shooting. “But there is much more work to do, and I’m not going to give up fighting the epidemic of gun violence.”
On Friday, Biden responded to the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe by taking note of how the shooting had shocked people in Japan. The country has a strikingly low incidence of gun violence compared to the U.S., which has experienced thousands of gun deaths already this year.
Most of the new law's $13 billion in spending would be used for bolstering mental health programs and for schools, which have been targeted by shooters in Newtown, Connecticut; Parkland, Florida; and many other gun massacres. It was the product of weeks of closed-door negotiations by a bipartisan group of senators who emerged with a compromise.
It does not include far tougher restrictions that Democrats and Biden have long championed, such as a ban on assault-type weapons and background checks for all gun transactions. Biden on Monday was expected to reiterate his call for those tougher measures, but prospects are slim for any further congressional action.
Article: https://longisland.news12.com/biden-admin-docs-must-offer-abortion-if-moms-life-at-risk
Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/2022071...docs-must-offer-abortion-if-moms-life-at-risk
The Biden administration on Monday told hospitals that they “must” provide abortion services if the life of the mother is at risk, saying federal law on emergency treatment guidelines preempts state laws in jurisdictions that now ban the procedure without any exceptions following the Supreme Court's decision to end a constitutional right to abortion.
The Department of Health and Human Services cited requirements on medical facilities in the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA). The law requires medical facilities to determine whether a person seeking treatment may be in labor or whether they face an emergency health situation - or one that could develop into an emergency - and to provide treatment.
“If a physician believes that a pregnant patient presenting at an emergency department is experiencing an emergency medical condition as defined by EMTALA, and that abortion is the stabilizing treatment necessary to resolve that condition, the physician must provide that treatment,” the agency's guidance states. “When a state law prohibits abortion and does not include an exception for the life of the pregnant person - or draws the exception more narrowly than EMTALA’s emergency medical condition definition - that state law is preempted.”
The department said emergency conditions include “ectopic pregnancy, complications of pregnancy loss, or emergent hypertensive disorders, such as preeclampsia with severe features.”
“It is critical that providers know that a physician or other qualified medical personnel’s professional and legal duty to provide stabilizing medical treatment to a patient who presents to the emergency department and is found to have an emergency medical condition preempts any directly conflicting state law or mandate that might otherwise prohibit such treatment,” HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra wrote in a letter to health care providers.
The department says its guidance doesn't reflect new policy, but merely reminds doctors and providers of their existing obligations under federal law.
“Under federal law, providers in emergency situations are required to provide stabilizing care to someone with an emergency medical condition, including abortion care if necessary, regardless of the state where they live,” said Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure. "CMS will do everything within our authority to ensure that patients get the care they need.”
The Department of Health and Human Services cited requirements on medical facilities in the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA). The law requires medical facilities to determine whether a person seeking treatment may be in labor or whether they face an emergency health situation - or one that could develop into an emergency - and to provide treatment.
“If a physician believes that a pregnant patient presenting at an emergency department is experiencing an emergency medical condition as defined by EMTALA, and that abortion is the stabilizing treatment necessary to resolve that condition, the physician must provide that treatment,” the agency's guidance states. “When a state law prohibits abortion and does not include an exception for the life of the pregnant person - or draws the exception more narrowly than EMTALA’s emergency medical condition definition - that state law is preempted.”
The department said emergency conditions include “ectopic pregnancy, complications of pregnancy loss, or emergent hypertensive disorders, such as preeclampsia with severe features.”
“It is critical that providers know that a physician or other qualified medical personnel’s professional and legal duty to provide stabilizing medical treatment to a patient who presents to the emergency department and is found to have an emergency medical condition preempts any directly conflicting state law or mandate that might otherwise prohibit such treatment,” HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra wrote in a letter to health care providers.
The department says its guidance doesn't reflect new policy, but merely reminds doctors and providers of their existing obligations under federal law.
“Under federal law, providers in emergency situations are required to provide stabilizing care to someone with an emergency medical condition, including abortion care if necessary, regardless of the state where they live,” said Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure. "CMS will do everything within our authority to ensure that patients get the care they need.”
Article 3
Article: https://longisland.news12.com/alert...own-as-chief-judge-of-new-yorks-highest-court
Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/2022071...own-as-chief-judge-of-new-yorks-highest-court
The chief judge of New York's highest court, the Court of Appeals, has announced she is resigning.
Janet DiFiore says it's time to move on to the next chapter in her life after seven years on the bench.
The former Westchester district attorney says her resignation will take effect on Aug. 31.
She did not give any further details for her decision to step down.
Instead in her letter, she pointed to the progress the court has made. That includes keeping the state courts open and functioning during an unprecedented public health crisis.
DiFiore, who also served as a county court judge, was appointed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
It will be up to Gov. Kathy Hochul to choose her successor.
Janet DiFiore says it's time to move on to the next chapter in her life after seven years on the bench.
The former Westchester district attorney says her resignation will take effect on Aug. 31.
She did not give any further details for her decision to step down.
Instead in her letter, she pointed to the progress the court has made. That includes keeping the state courts open and functioning during an unprecedented public health crisis.
DiFiore, who also served as a county court judge, was appointed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
It will be up to Gov. Kathy Hochul to choose her successor.
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Best answer I can find online from googling is "hypothetically"
But then again, outside of doomsday preppers, who the hell keeps anything in a faraday cage?
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I know about the cage, but it's too big to be practical. The bag looks interesting, but it feels too cheap for me to really think its practical.
And Even if I can shield the phone and laptop, That doesn't really do me much good without internet.
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They let him run. Jill won't have anything less.
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Biden press event on the South Lawn today
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Oh they know that very well but they did this anyway as way to throw a bone to the most retarded of progressives that don't realize this is already a thing, which is a surprising number of them
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A father of someone who was killed in the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting interrupted a Biden speech and was escorted out as a result:'We Have to Do More Than That!' Father of School Shooting Victim Interrupts Biden Speeh
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See, I don't trust them for a fucking second to not abuse this anymore - They're already out there declaring racism an emergency health situation, so I don't buy for a second that they'll decide that the financial impact of child rearing is an emergency health situation, and grounds to terminate a pregnancy as a result. If you sit down and strictly define it as "the baby will actively and imminently terminate the mothers life" then alright, but anything short of that explicit nature will be abused.
Y'all poisoned the well, and now you need to live with the consequences. Stop acting like petulant children trying to rules lawyer your way back into murdering babies.
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If the funsticks ever start flying I'm booking it back home to WV, no ones gonna waste the money or effort to bomb a place that already looks like it got hit by a carpet bomb from the sky in most places lol
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If you're close enough to be exposed to significant ionizing radiation from the reaction, you're probably already dead or dying from thermal or blast effects. Assuming you survive the thermal radiation, blast, and subsequent firestorm, you're going to get dusted down with radioisotopes, which you will need to remove from your skin and clothes (and food, etc.).
Your solar/crank-powered emergency radio may continue working, as long as it isn't plugged in when the EMP comes. Same for your mobile HAM. And fixed stations are often shielded, so there's that.
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Trump: I love Mexicans!
DOCTOR Jill: hold my bowdiga.
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One of the things that we were told to do in case Ivan nuked us in the face, is if we had warning, pull the power cord from EVERYTHING. IIRC a 300W EMP would fuck up anything with a 3" or longer cable or antenna.
Analog stuff usually the fuse goes. Digital stuff, though, is pretty fucked. They used to sell analog systems that would be able to handle up to a 450W EMP. Shit, Civil Defense guidebooks used to recommend certain brands and types.
It's not a magic "shut down all machines" like the press shows it either. I blame movies for that.
Tests in Nevada and New Mexico showed you could get an older car (before computers were in everything) back on the road pretty quick.
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Hey, no worse than your sweetheart with her fake "y'all" accent and carrying hot sauce for fried chicken in her purse. Hillary "I put that shit on everything!" Clinton.
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