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

    I didn't see the CNN trump rally, nor have I seen a lot of lefty obsession with it, aside from comments about how colossally stupid it was Once again, with feeling: when someone shows you who he...
  2. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

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

    So ... is there a difference between propaganda and commentary? Or are those two words for the same thing? Are all opinions propaganda, regardless of the facts - or lack of same - used to formulate...
  3. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

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

    You're right about COLA. I can't speak for Tweety, but I wouldn't live in Florida OR California on a
  4. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

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

    Left wing propaganda is pretty much the same, just the other end of the bell curve. Purest advertising. Since I start with the assumption that I'm reading propaganda, I've noticed over the years...
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    The election 2024 Thread

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

    Between trump and DeSantis, I consider DeSantis to be more dangerous. Both men are sociopathic bullies indulging creepy fantasies (Google BDE). Both men are the intellectual and political heirs of Roy...
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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

    You just answered it.
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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

    Are you referring to increased temps related to the El Nino that seems to be gearing up in the
  8. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

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

    Yes, it happens. My point is that it will happen more frequently as climate change progresses and ecosystems suitable for human survival continue to collapse and, in some cases, disappear. (A number...
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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

    A little info on what's coming: https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-climate-crisis-migration-and-refugees/...
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    Phasing Out ADN?

    heron replied to Candi Williams's topic in General Nursing

    I graduated nursing school in 1972 and have heard this same caveat ever since then. They might have better success in promoting the BSN if tuition was affordable without crippling
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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

    Considering your record of dismissing concerns that subsequently prove to be well founded, not taking this post particularly
  12. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

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

    Well, we better figure something out quick. Google "climate refugees". The pressure of migrating populations on existing national borders is likely to get way worse before it gets
  13. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

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

    I remember when the same thing happened in Alabama a few years ago (around the time Arizona passed their "papers, please" law). The definition of insanity ... Right around the same time I...
  14. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

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

    Actually, it confirmed my suspicion that conservatives will eventually get tired of a moronic, sociopathic and, above all, ignorant phony claiming conservative credentials. MAGA =/=...
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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 finally took a look at the first few articles on a quick search. (Nowhere near exhaustive, I know.) I get a distinct impression that Penny, his attorneys and Bragg are trying to keep the...
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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

    Yanno ... whenever someone tells me to not look over there, I tend to look over there. Thank
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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

    Found in my facebook feed: "Before we work on Artificial Intelligence ... Why don't we do something about Natural
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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

    So ... what is the fiscally responsible thing 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

    I've been avoiding stories about shootings lately. It hurts to see so many people thrown into the media spin
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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

    If you go to usafacts.org and search "cost of government shutdown", you'll find a whole list of articles on the subject. The whole debt ceiling debate is really over fiscal responsibility and who...
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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

    And we're not talking about that,
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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 news ... ask any Native and you will find that indigenous identity has been romanticized and co-opted since the days of Kit Carson's wild west show. It does provide an interesting take on the...
  23. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

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

    Your
  24. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

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

    I think it's definitely time to tweak EMTALA. I also think that transportation is a huge part of the misuse problem. It doesn't seem to get discussed much. Don't get me started
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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

    "All charged to the taxpayer" - conveniently editing out the billions of taxpayer dollars stolen by vendor fraud. Dollars better used. to finance tax cuts for the top 0.01%,. After all, profits...