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  1. heron

    What do you think about with current News and Opinions?

    heron replied to guest1163268's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    I can’t disagree with many of your observations. But before we label the Hunter Biden mess as “just as bad” show me where he has been appointed as a paid White House advisor or put in charge of...
  2. heron

    What do you think about with current News and Opinions?

    heron replied to guest1163268's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Whitey Bulger was a career criminal and gangster, kind of an Irish godfather. His brother was a lifelong Massachusetts politician and president of the University of Massachusetts. Google the name …...
  3. heron

    What do you think about with current News and Opinions?

    heron replied to guest1163268's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Y’see, this is where we disagree. While I think that Hunter Biden is probably a fairly dim-witted tycoon wannabe, he was never hired on as a high level advisor to the president, complete with...
  4. heron

    What do you think about with current News and Opinions?

    heron replied to guest1163268's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Yep. Southie = South Boston. One of the ethnic urban neighborhoods in Boston. Pretty much working class Irish Catholic, famous for breeding Whitey Bulger and the bussing protests back in the sixties....
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    President Biden thread

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

    IOW, you pulled this one out of your own
  6. heron

    What do you think about with current News and Opinions?

    heron replied to guest1163268's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Southie
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    What do you think about with current News and Opinions?

    heron replied to guest1163268's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Me, I just took one year … youse guys are making me hit the
  8. heron

    What do you think about with current News and Opinions?

    heron replied to guest1163268's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Both-sides-ism (aka false equivalence) … check. Is English your first
  9. heron

    President Biden thread

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

    Well … you certainly do a great impression of rightwingnuttery: willful ignorance, check. Proud of that ignorance, check. Much of the time substitutes owning the libs for reasoned discussion, check....
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    President Biden thread

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

    Well, evidently You seriously don’t know about the John Birch Society? Don’t you know your own
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    President Biden thread

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

    This post makes no sense. MAGA is just a rebranding of dittoheads and John Birchers. Bad cosplay. ETA - the post was about the Medal of Freedom. Can civilians even get the Medal of Honor?...
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    President Biden thread

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

    Not hardly. Trump doesn’t get to take credit for Rush Limbaugh. Many of us old fahts have strong opinions about him from before Fox News sold itself into wingnut slavery. MAGA is just code for...
  13. heron

    Former MN police officer Derek Chauvin charged with second-degree murder; three other officers face charges

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

    I wonder if he still thinks he was doing a good
  14. heron

    What do you think about with current News and Opinions?

    heron replied to guest1163268's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Growing up, my stepfather was a card-carrying John Bircher. This post reminds me of his dinner-table rants about the fluoridation of the public water supply. Plus ca change, plus ca meme chose
  15. heron

    What do you think about with current News and Opinions?

    heron replied to guest1163268's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Why am I not
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    What do you think about with current News and Opinions?

    heron replied to guest1163268's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Knew it was fear of something
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    What do you think about with current News and Opinions?

    heron replied to guest1163268's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Speaking of lack of integrity … did Tucker Carlson really just blame mass shootings on women and marijuana? I don’t have the energy to deal with Fox News. It’s like being out in a hailstorm...
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    What do you think about with current News and Opinions?

    heron replied to guest1163268's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    You still haven’t described “true conservative” unless opposition to amnesty (what kind of amnesty?) is your sole criterion for being deemed
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    What do you think about with current News and Opinions?

    heron replied to guest1163268's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Umm … that doesn’t answer the question. Maybe it would be easier to name some folks you consider to be “true
  20. heron

    What do you think about with current News and Opinions?

    heron replied to guest1163268's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    NOT a sarcastic question: what is a “true
  21. heron

    The Supreme Court has overruled Roe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark decision establishing the right to abortion.

    heron replied to Julie's topic in Nursing News

    I don’t have a source, but I think I remember hearing about this case a while (years?)
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    The Supreme Court has overruled Roe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark decision establishing the right to abortion.

    heron replied to Julie's topic in Nursing News

    Vote.
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    Hawaii RN license by endorsement after completing probation in another state

    heron replied to sheela's topic in Licensure: Criminal History

    What have you tried so
  24. heron

    What do you think about with current News and Opinions?

    heron replied to guest1163268's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Why am I not surprised? I read it when I was about 18 or so. I was already firmly out of Christianity by then but I loved it anyhow. It’s still a favorite of
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    What do you think about with current News and Opinions?

    heron replied to guest1163268's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Thanks! I couldn’t remember where I heard it. I think it’s a riff on CS Lewis - “Screwtaoe Letters”