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

    No, it’s a human rights issue: the First Amendment prohibits the state from dictating religious practice. There’s also the privacy issue: the state has no business interfering with individual...
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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

    It’s the old “see what you made me do!” excuse so beloved by abusers everywhere. Hard to believe that any grown-up of normal intelligence seriously believes that it’s the responsibility 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

    Interesting to see the small-government crowd complaining about ineffective government
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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

    It’s interesting, though, to see a psych NP spouting rehashed Tucker Carlson. I wonder if his private practice offers testicle tanning therapy. I read recently that ole Tucker is a real hit on...
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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

    When it’s posting blatant Russian propaganda, yes … troll. Putin is an old-school kgb-bred Stalin retread. When his rent-boy Trump was in power, he really didn’t have to do much besides...
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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

    Well, I guess we know which troll farms targeted us this time around.
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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’m starting to think it’s practice - or market research - trying out the various propaganda schticks to see which one starts the most fights, maybe? Or just basic training, like skills lab in...
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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

    Yup -
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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

    Give her/him a break - they’ve only been on the site for an
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    January 6 Select Committee

    heron replied to nursej22's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Merrill =/= Merrick. You’d think that a stickler for language would at least get the name
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    January 6 Select Committee

    heron replied to nursej22's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Who’s Merrill
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    January 6 Select Committee

    heron replied to nursej22's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    I’ve read that something like 30 Republican members of congress participated in trump’s pressure campaign. It will be interesting to see how many of them show up on these threatened
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    January 6 Select Committee

    heron replied to nursej22's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    There’s an evil part of me that’s looking forward to it. Funniest show since Monty
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    January 6 Select Committee

    heron replied to nursej22's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Up is down. War is peace. Quack
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    January 6 Select Committee

    heron replied to nursej22's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Google “duckspeak”. Explains 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 … who supplied all those monoclonal antibodies DeSantis pushed in place of vaccination? How much were they paid and by
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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’s pointless and then there’s inability - or unwillingness - to get 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

    I was addressing the implied threat. “I know where you live.” It’s happened on this site before. When people show me who they are, I believe them. And that’s all I am going to say about...
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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 tactic is practiced by anal orafices of all persuasions It’s the online version of street fighting. I don’t think there’s been a quantitative study on who does it more - at least I...
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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

    When I use the term, I’m referring to outing people online by publishing real names, jobs, addresses, etc. IOW, making their personal documentation public. Used to make it easier to harass 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

    Being trashed on Twitter is not the same as being formally censured. Try to keep
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    President Biden thread

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

    Yes, if she was bullied … The linked article was not specific about the behavior in question. Yes, bullying is wrong regardless of the target. But there’s a part of me that wants to say...
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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 where the fist meets the nose. I agree that no one is obligated to do business with me. I can either find someone else, do it for myself, or do without. Whether that’s a good business...
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    A Conundrum

    heron replied to Davey Do's topic in General Nursing

    There was a time when I was looking for a new job because of chaos at the current one. I was offered a job at a small community hospital ICU. While thinking it over, I realized that the prospect of...