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

    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...
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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
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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
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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

    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...
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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 ... 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...
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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

    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...
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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 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
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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, I'm rewatching House 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

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

    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
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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

    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/...