heron ASN, RN

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  1. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Good for them! I wonder what the hospital corporation will spend on lawyers, travelers and
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    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Subee's post mentioned grifters cashing in on financial reparations. It reminded me of a book by Tom Wolfe (Bonfire of the Vanities), Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers. It's an absolutely...
  3. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    While reparations certainly refers, in part, to descendants of slaves, it isn't the only bill we owe. The biggest economy in the world was founded on stolen land and large parts built with stolen...
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    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Reparations is not a new idea, nor is it exclusive to the US. I agree that direct dollar-for-dollar compensation to indigenous people or descendants of slaves isn't going to happen. Nor should it....
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    The election 2024 Thread

    heron replied to Tweety's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Yes, specifically how and why an initially innocuous word comes to be pejorative, aka a "slur". The evolution of language and trying to understand the ways it influences how we think and what we...
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    The election 2024 Thread

    heron replied to Tweety's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Yes, I do ... and you still don't understand it, regardless of
  7. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Not a change of subject at all. The poster you mentioned asked for a definition of woke, which was originally an awareness of social injustice. That definition comes from the Urban Dictionary, which...
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    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Well, personally, I'm still waiting to hear what it is about being aware of social injustice that makes it such a huge problem that we have to legislate against it. He refused to answer that question,...
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    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Not really - trump didn't invent that particular sales strategy.. It's inherent in the nature of debate: he who defines the problem, including the words used to describe it, wins the battle. Newt...
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    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    IOW he has no
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    The election 2024 Thread

    heron replied to Tweety's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Oooooh - sick burn ... what are you, thirteen? (And you still don't know anything about
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    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    One of my long-time favorite
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    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Mockery, as you and I both have demonstrated, is a weapon. Anyone who has been physically, sexually or emotionally abused by clerical closet cases - including female religious - can tell you that it...
  14. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Well ... I don't understand what the likes of Ted Nugent or Ye do for a living, either. We all choose our leadership. Ditto for sookespeople. To misquote Anjelou, you can tell a lot about a...
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    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Even if he did, so what? Contrary to the assertions of some christian extremists, the First Amendment applies to
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    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Woke = awareness of social justice. What part of that is out of
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    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    The groundwork was laid by changes in food distribution, progressive displacement of small local sources by larger, more distant suppliers, changes in the nature of work with increasing mechanization....
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    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Not a coincidence, but just one of a multitude of contributing factors, social and biological, that have combined over time (at least 150 years) into a perfect storm that finally exploded in the...
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    The Trump Thread

    heron replied to Tweety's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Actually, I still don't care. As trump's incompetence and sheer stupidity became increasingly clear over the course of his term, it was predictable that magadonians would try to keep us from looking...
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    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    The issue at hand is whether obese people have a right to accommodation from airlines and whether they should be charged for it. Frankly, it's clear that the "issue" is merely an excuse to sneer at...
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    The election 2024 Thread

    heron replied to Tweety's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Miami mayor Suarez has apparently entered the republican primary. I haven't found much info other than the usual schtick. (Haven't looked real hard, either.) What's the word? So far, I've read...
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    The election 2024 Thread

    heron replied to Tweety's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Fair enough. It mystifies me that all the current primary candidates are magadonians - except Christie, who's more of a ride-the-coattails kinda guy. Is the GOP truly that
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    President Biden thread

    heron replied to Beerman's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Would those be the same whistleblowers that were paid by Kash Patel then disappeared? I think an investigation is aa good idea, iif only to evaluate the reliability of whatever evidence actually...
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    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Goddess forbid we should actually DO something about the underlying contributors to obesity ... all those industries out of business! Oh, the humanity
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    President Biden thread

    heron replied to Beerman's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    2016 redux. Surely Putin is smart enough to produce some evidence to go along with the complaint planted with the FBI. Play the tapes ... then explain how you know they're not deepfakes. Hunter...