heron ASN, RN

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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

    My late partner performed with her at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival back in the 70s. (I pm'd you with her name in case you want to Google her.) Women's music was never very lucrative....
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    President Biden thread

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

    Why bless your heart, of course it was. ETA: I wonder what the SJC would have to say about legacy
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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

    Speaking of satire (or not), anyone remember Leaping Lesbians? Meg Christian's recording of the song can be found on
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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

    Your
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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 a complicated thing, not to be solved overnight. A good place to start might be for us white folks to stop telling everybody else to go back where they came from. It makes us look...
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    President Biden thread

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

    If there was any actual evidence, it would be shouted from the rooftops. Instead, we have invisible audiotapes recorded by a dead guy and a tip that not even Bill Barr was able to take seriously. Not...
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    The election 2024 Thread

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

    I remember reading about that conplaint that Obama wouldn't work with congress. It made me laugh. The congress that obstructed his every move in an effort to make him a one-term president. I wonder...
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    The election 2024 Thread

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

    Regardless of the Republican primary outcome, my nurse's gut is telling me to keep a weather eye out for local fascists. And that includes both white supremacists and christian nationalists, of which...
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    The election 2024 Thread

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

    I think DeSantis is suffering from a bad case of reality shock. He may or may not be able to get over
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    Taking things too personally

    heron replied to Lostsoul123's topic in General Nursing

    OP, the kind of obsessive ruminating you describe is the dark side of a de-briefing process that all good nurses use to learn from experience. When it gets mixed up with underlying issues of anxiety,...
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    The election 2024 Thread

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

    We're both right. I'm a firm believer in the principle that the first duty of a leader is to train her replacement. However, I think it would be a mistake to discount the value of Biden's...
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    The election 2024 Thread

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

    Not to mention a ton of relevant experience. No substitute for
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    LVN Semaglutide Business

    heron replied to Gabbyfrances's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Wonder what the board of pharmacy would have to say about that
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    President Biden thread

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

    'Splain please. Do you mean that sentencing for the charges to which he pled guilty was exceptionally light? Or that more serious charges were dropped as part of the deal? If the latter, what charges...
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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

    I found the article to be a great example of what you can find when you decide to look anyway. The crazies didn't invent the tactic of distraction. And trump isn't the only useful fool in...
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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

    Meanwhile, as the Great Republican Flying Circus keeps us all amused and not looking over there, I found this:...
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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

    First Tennessee's anti-drag law, now Arkansas anti-trans law. Here's hoping it becomes 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

    No, not moot at all. In fact, your point, if I understand it correctly, is at the heart of the subject. However, I don't see the choice in the same way as some others might. Forking over $14...
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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

    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...
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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

    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
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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 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...