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

    You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din. I am personally unwilling to relitigate issues that I have figured out for myself years ago, especially the basic assumptions from which I operate, such...
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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 we seriously debating what the definition of "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

    Hmph - talk about a "durable Republican majority". Just legislate your opponent out 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

    IOW garbage in, garbage out. Gerrymandered or false data => nonsense
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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

    Important to note that observing correlations is the first step in the process of inductive reasoning - aka the scientific method 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

    Ahh - now I remember.
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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

    Minor derail: didn't the ACA derive, in part, from Cato Institute
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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

    Plus, one's assessment of the economy depends on which numbers one looks at. Record high - and rising - numbers of homeless, 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

    Exactly my point - 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

    "Covid came from China" may - or may not - be a statement of an irrelevant fact. Using that possibility as an excuse to attack anyone who looks Asian is xenophobic. I'll consider using "China virus"...
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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

    Since the earliest documented case of AIDS happened in New York City in 1969, maybe we should call it the American Scourge. No one knows how it got there and probably never will. As you say - we need...
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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, at least he's not posting about phantom caravans and election fraud fantasies. I don't follow and don't understand the ins and outs of border security funding, so youse guys duke it out 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

    The weaponization of pejorative labeling and the substitution of pointless snark and carefully crafted lies for actual reasoned argument is integral to human politics from time immemorial. No one has...
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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

    Me, too. I was a both a Fox viewer and a fan of talk radio back in the day. (Approx. 1980 thru 1998-ish.) In the beginning, although I disagreed with much of what I heard, hearing the reasoning on...
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    Comparing how news media headlines and reports on the same story

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

    Personally, my opinion on the HB "controversy" has nothing to do with what MSNBC wants me to think. Nothing about the right-wing spin passes the sniff test. Meanwhile, I await with anticipation...
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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

    Kind of puts the pearl-clutching dismay over declining populations in a whole new light. Not to mention the fights over reproductive
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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

    IOW. You have no idea what Dunning-Kruger is. Careful - your bias is
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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

    See my comment on Dunning-Kruger.
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    Comparing how news media headlines and reports on the same story

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

    Dunning-Kruger strikes
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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

    Hope they have better lawyers than
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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 motion is 200 pages. Available at
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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

    Would love to be a fly on the wall at that screening. Given Fox's record, I suspect we'll hear no more about it or that a specialist in deep fakes is about to make a s**t ton of
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    President Biden thread

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

    You do you, boo. Whatever lets you sleep at
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    President Biden thread

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

    Of course. Luckily, bonkers statements don't cut it in court. Am watching Jack Smith, the Georgia grand jury and the various defamation suits going on, with CSPAN coverage of the House of...
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    Fifth HIV Patient Cured

    heron replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    I'm hopefully skeptical. Mass media are notorious for premature, over optimistic and oversimplified trumpeting of scientific advances. So ... I will watch and