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

    So ... I "need" evidence but you don't? QED and thu-ank-yoooou
  2. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

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

    Do you have evidence of the emotional trauma supposedly being inflicted on white cisgendered straight kids by hearing that some kids' parents are the same gender? Or that those beautiful, iconic stone...
  3. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

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

    I have no doubt that there are incompetent or ill-advised teachers who think that guilt-tripping kids = education. Given the right-wing assaults on actual educators, the proportion of such...
  4. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

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

    I don't much care about Newsmax, to tell the truth, so not following that debate. Censorship is alive and well - I just disagree about who is censoring whom. It's now illegal to teach history in...
  5. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

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

    Newsmax is not known for accurate reporting, AEB their reporting on the Big Lie, health misinformation and crackpot conspiracy theories. Interesting that a "conservative" outlet, presumably a...
  6. 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 the other way around: DirecTV pays networks some kind of fee to be able to carry them on its service. Newsmax demanded more money than DurecTV was willing to pay for the
  7. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

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

    That's what I just said - and had no intention of derailing the subject into LGBTQ politics. My point is that some "conservatives" want rights that they deny to others. A better example of differences...
  8. 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 - and their case actually argued freedom of religion, not speech. However, my observation holds for that,
  9. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

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

    It seems like the right-wing wants to have it both ways: it's free speech when businesses refuse service to gay folk(for instance) on "moral" grounds but censorship when services are refused to them...
  10. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

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

    Precisely ... the question is what is "proper border policy"? Should history and ethics factor into it? Historically, the approach seems to be that "What's mine is mine and what's yours is mine,...
  11. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

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

    That's not a great solution if the migrant is trying to escape starvation. I believe that the proportion of migrants escaping starvation is going to keep increasing at least for a bit. To me,...
  12. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

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

    It seems to me that it's pretty unlikely that the pressure can be significantly reduced anytime soon. As whole ecosystems begin to collapse, people begin to starve. There are roughly 8 billion people...
  13. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

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

    I missed your citations because you've been on my ignore list for quite sometime. I de-activate the list from time to time to see if the conversation has improved. My
  14. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

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

    Do tell ... what policies are those? Could you be more
  15. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

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

    Yes, I was. I often wonder what honest conservatives will do about the loons like this overrunning their party. Third party? Register independent? (I chose the
  16. heron

    I don't need any government to tell me if I have their permission to defend myself

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

    Glad you put "conservative" in quotes. I'm afraid that the word no longer means what it did in Buckley's
  17. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

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

    Not touchin' this
  18. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

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

    OK, so not an expert
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    I don't need any government to tell me if I have their permission to defend myself

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

    Another new user in the Great Magaloon Invasion of AN. You wouldn't know it from some posts, but nurses are theoretically, at least, trained in critical thinking. So ... what is your point? Hint:...
  20. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

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

    And how did you come by your expertise in Black
  21. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

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

    Are you kidding? Consider what happens to black folks caught with a gun in the wrong
  22. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

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

    Actually, I had socioeconomic class in
  23. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

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

    It might be instructive to note just which criminals she's talking
  24. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

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

    So ... how would you approach the
  25. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

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

    Pobrecita ... A pattern is emerging,