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

    Translation: Don't look over there
  2. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

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

    Years ago, TV entertainment was criticized the same way we're clutching our collective pearls over social media today. I remember one article that speculated on TV's conditioning effects on our...
  3. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

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

    I agree, too, but for different teasons. Pre-Stonewall, and for quite some time afterwards, this kind of overt hate was limited to the gay-bashers and closet cases (think Matthew Shephard....
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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

    Forgive the mixed metaphor, but they come across, to me, like a band of chimps desperately flinging turds, thinking that'll force the genie back in the bottle. And yet, we
  5. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

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

    My point
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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 risk of forced outing for individual trans kids may or may not be "slight", but the effects of abuse are not. That's what trumps the right of parents, unless you conflate the right to know with...
  7. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

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

    Why is it so difficult to accept the fact that language changes over time? It's why we don't refer to a car's accelerator as a buggy whip. But, then, Americans are notorious for refusing to learn...
  8. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

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

    Your point? It wouldn't be "Don't look over there," would
  9. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

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

    Just a blurb I came across while randomly surfing the net: "Manipulation is when they blame you for your reaction to their toxic behavior, but never discuss the disrespect that triggered you."...
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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

    There are subcultures here in the US in which calling someone out of their name is profoundly disrespectful. Denying the damage done by deliberate mis-gendering and using dead names is like...
  11. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

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

    Translation: Don't look over
  12. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

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

    Translation: Don't look over
  13. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

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

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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

    Just for guts and giggles, Google "Uganda gay death penalty." US religious conservative groups like Focus on the Family (for one) have been lobbying the Ugandan government for this law for over a...
  15. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

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

    So ... putting a child in unnecessary danger is justified by a teacher's personal
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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

    Oops!
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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 remembering, it's Memorial Day ... what and whom do you remember? Both my parents served in WW II. Neither died in the line of duty, but were ready to do so if needed. Both probably...
  18. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

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

    From where I sit, what's both silly and dumb is the denial of biological realities. Denial functions as a coping mechanism to help deal with potentially fatal fear/panic. Unfortunately, excessive...
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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 saw that clip - I did
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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

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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

    This is why they got so upset over the oroposed increased hiring at the IRS. Remember all the pearl-clutching over "armed agents on your doorstep?" More money and more staff = more enforcement = more...
  22. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

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

    I think I made it thru 2 or 3 seasons. I had already dropped it by the time Spacey was outed as a sexual predator and the writing jumped the shark. It just got
  23. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

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

    Just for guts and giggles, I'm rewatching House of
  24. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

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

    So ... are they proposing to cut, say, oil company subsidies? I think that at the end of the day, the issue is not whether to cut spending - aka reduce the deficit - as it is what spending gets
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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 hear that Nikki Hailey is up