heron ASN, RN

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    The Trump Thread

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

    Well, if a stupid thieving hatemongering bully facing the legal consequences of his own behavior is a witch hunt, then so be it. Allthough, as a card-carrying witch, myself, I resemble that...
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    The Trump Thread

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

    Meanwhile, back at the courthouse ... The arraignment is on Tuesday before a judge known to be friendly to him. His two lead attorneys on this case just resigned. Gonna get
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    The Trump Thread

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

    Tomato/tomahto ... we'll need to agree to
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    The Trump Thread

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

    Me, too, except that I was disappointed rather than infuriated by the pardon. The country was in chaos then, too ... including the literal assassination of political leaders (the Kennedy brothers,...
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    The Trump Thread

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

    The whining has become deafening. Once upon a time, conservative values included logic and intellectual rigor. Bill Buckley is spinning in his grave. That's what makes me
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    The Trump Thread

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

    Well ... it's up to the feds to prove him guilty, not the other way around. Not so sure I agree with "dark day" either. Time will tell
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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

    Time to mask up? Goddess help our bedside nurses
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    The Trump Thread

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

    Better than Law and
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    The Trump Thread

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

    Apparently, one of those witnesses is a maintenance worker involved in the "accident" that flooded a surveillance room that held tapes that, I believe, have been subpoenaed. Those who don't learn...
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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 centrists need to realize that false equivalencies prove nothing besides sloppy thinking and, possibly Pickme
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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, compared to what they did to George Tiller and David Gunn, I suppose a medical board complaint is pretty small potatoes. What I think is chilling is the implied threat of punishment for...
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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

    Actually, you changed the argument - at least you tried. You are correct. I have proposed that student confidentiality should be mandated because the consequences of forced outing are potentially...
  13. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

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

    "You can't change biology"? Really? "That's science." And are you sure you actually know what the science says? You just jumped the shark,
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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

    Translation: don't look over there
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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

    How about the right to life? I've read that transfolk are assaulted and murdered at a significantly higher rate than cis-folk. The ingoing campaigns to withhold health care from trans-kids...
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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 one, at least not here, has claimed otherwise. What's 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

    Translation: Don't look over there
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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

    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...
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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 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
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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 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...
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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

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