Tea Party not welcome in Wisconsin’s Labor Day Celebration

“It is a time for working families to come together to celebrate their hard work and a time where we recognize the labor movement for all they have given us — the weekend, the 40 hour work week, child labor protection, a safe work Invironment.” Radtke said

I wished that everyone who fancies wearing the Tea Party Label would read this… Maybe it would make them realize their so called Tea Party Leaders lie to them all the time and give little regard to anything that is in the working-class’s favor… thinkingblue

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“Have you ever wondered why Republicans are so interested in encouraging people to volunteer in their communities? It’s because volunteers work for no pay. Republicans have been trying to get people to work for no pay for a long time.”

–GEORGE CARLIN—

Republican Politicians Banned From Labor Day Parade In Wisconsin

WASHINGTON — A group of Wisconsin union officials has voted
to ban Republican politicians from a local Labor Day parade,
underscoring how partisan the state has become in the wake of
this year’s clashes over collective bargaining rights.

The Marathon County Central Labor Council, which sponsors the
parade, includes some 30 local unions.

Council President Randy Radtke said in a statement on the
group’s website that politicians are only welcome at the
festivities if they have demonstrated support for workers’
rights.

“It should come as no surprise that organizers choose
not to invite elected officials who have openly attacked
worker’s rights or stood idly by while their political party
fought to strip public workers of their right to collectively
bargain,” Radtke said. “It is a time for working
families to come together to celebrate their hard work and a
time where we recognize the labor movement for all they have
given us — the weekend, the 40 hour work week, child labor
protection, a safe work environment.”

In February, the 14 Democratic members of the Wisconsin state
Senate left the state to deny their GOP colleagues a quorum
and prevent them from pushing forward Gov. Scott Walker’s (R)
controversial budget repair bill, which stripped most of the
collective bargaining rights from public employees. Through a
last-minute budgetary maneuver, Republicans were able to pass
the measure. All but one GOP state senator voted for it.

On the federal level, Rep. Sean Duffy (R-Wis.) represents
Wausau. In a statement to local ABC affiliate WAOW, Duffy’s
office decried the labor council vote. “Having walked in
this parade in past years, Congressman Duffy was hoping that
for a moment, we could set our differences aside and simply
have some fun in a family-friendly event,” a Duffy
spokesperson said.

“[The congressman] walks in a lot of parades, and staff
called to register a spot last week and was informed in
colorful language that no Republicans were being allowed to
participate this year,” added Duffy Chief of Staff
Brandon Moody in an email to The Huffington Post.

During the winter’s budget fight, the congressman praised
Walker but tried to keep his distance from the governor’s
stance on collective bargaining. In February, the editorial
board of the Wausau Daily Herald called his reluctance to
weigh in “just plain lame.”

Radtke said the reaction to his decision has been mixed, with
“some negative comments but mostly it has been
overwhelmingly positive.”

Other politicians who won’t be welcome at the parade include
state Sen. Pam Galloway (R-Wausau) and state Rep. Jerry
Petrowski (R-Marathon). MORE HERE

Where are the working class’s champions?

Of course FOX NATION does not agree.

There is an overabundance of gloomy news in the world these days and because of this, we have all gotten a bit desensitized. You open news links and you get lingering deadly effects of two US wars that go on and on with no end in sight or even WTF the true objective of these wars were to begin with. Then another headline will read “Drought and Famine in Somalia Have Killed More Than 29000 Children Under the Age of 5” with pictures of emaciated little bodies that hardly resemble human forms. Another click advances you to captions like: “The World Is Watching the Carnage In Syria… Click for video” and back home we get: “Wall Street Banks Still Gouging U.S. Citizens After Bailouts”, with no mention on how they can be stopped or if they will ever receive punishment for their crimes of greed.

National Dept, Debt Ceilings and Fed Budgets, OH MY… were the Blue Plate Specials of the Day, media kept shoveling down our throats. (I almost heard a collective ho-hum; what else is new?) But with all the ongoing bleak headlines of disparity, depredation and blatant nasty behavior perpetrated by human beings upon humanity and life itself. There once in awhile will come a headline that fast bounces you back to sensibility and with it an enormous feeling of shame that you happen to belong to the human race. (A startling bounce back to a reality that some of us are capable of ignorance beyond comprehension). Today one such headline jumped out at me: 10-Year-Old Dies Of Dehydration After His Parents Deny Him 5-Days Of Water.

Just one little boy but his death raises a question that we all should ask. WHY DID IT HAPPEN? What is the reason for such ignorance from a Mom and Dad and such apathy from those who had contact with this tortured child (FOR FIVE UNBEARABLE DAYS)?

Healthy normal parents try to protect their young not deliberately perpetrate torture upon them. It’s indescribably sad that this child had no one looking out for his welfare. It took 5 days and in all that time no one noticed his suffering. It seems that we homo sapiens still have a long, long evolutionary path yet to travel for when a species stops nurturing and protecting its young it is most likely doomed to extinction. It’s as simple as that! thinkingblue

http://www.etidbits.com/10-year-old-dies-of-dehydration-after-his-parents-deny-him-5-days-of-water=7948

10-Year-Old Dies Of Dehydration After His Parents Deny Him 5-Days Of Water

Written by Michael Lambarde on Aug 28, 2011 // Category: National

Police say that a Texas boy died of dehydration after his parents denied him of drinking water as punishment after he had accidentally wet the bed. The 10-year-old Dallas boy, Jonathan James, died on July 25, according to police, after his parents prohibited him from drinking water in the five days leading up to his death. Temperatures in Dallas soared to 100 degrees or more on each of those days, police say.

Michael Ray James, his father, and Tina Alberson, his stepmother, were both charged on Thursday, August 25th and were jailed for injury to a child due to serious bodily injury. His twin brother, Joseph James, and his 12-year-old stepbrother were not injured; the two are currently staying with other family members.

According to Jonathan’s grandmother Sue Shotwell, her grandson had contacted her in June and told her that he was afraid of living with his parents during the month-long, court-ordered custody visit.

“[Jonathan] called me and said, ‘Can I come to your house instead? I know I’m going to be in trouble while I’m there because I always am,’” Shotwell said in an interview with the Dallas News on Friday. “That’s the first time we ever heard that from him. The boy, because of a court ordered custody arrangement, were spending the summer with their biological father, but they were not willing to stay with their father,” Shotwell said.

Shotwell also revealed to FOX News that Jonathan’s twin brother knew about the punishment, and she had told him that he didn’t need to feel guilty because there was nothing that he could have done. She notes that Joseph later confessed to his grandmother that he had wished that he had “snuck him some water.”

Police documents show that the 10-year-old collapsed and hit his head on the floor after 5-days of going without water. Joseph later told police that his brother was put in a room without air conditioning and was told to stand near the window with the scorching sun beating down on him. He also notes that his brother had peanut butter stuck in his throat on the day he died, but his parents still didn’t allow him to drink any water.

After his parents had realized that the boy’s body was shutting down, they put him in a cold bathtub before they called paramedics, police said. He shortly died after he was rushed to the hospital. MORE HERE

For years I’ve believed doctors and medical practitioners have over prescribed, over surgery-ed, over tested and viewed patients as cash-cows, for the most part. KA-CHING, KA-CHING. They can, because they know how to strike fear in the hearts of us unknowing lay-people. They don’t even have to use words; it’s assumed that if you don’t get this or that expensive test or procedure done… YOU’RE GONNA DIE!

Guess what THEY MAKE ME SICK! thinkingblue

PS: Hey but when you really need, and I mean need a doctor to save your life. Thank goodness, when you can find the right one who is capable of giving you an extension on your expiration date. Read the article below for some insight…

Aug 14, 2011 10:00 AM EDT

One Word Can Save Your Life: NO!

New research shows how some common tests and procedures aren’t just expensive, but can do more harm than good.

Dr. Stephen Smith, Professor emeritus of family medicine at Brown University School of Medicine, tells his physician not to order a PSA blood test for prostate cancer or an annual electrocardiogram to screen for heart irregularities, since neither test has been shown to save lives. Rather, both tests frequently find innocuous quirks that can lead to a dangerous odyssey of tests and procedures. Dr. Rita Redberg, professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and editor of the prestigious Archives of Internal Medicine, has no intention of having a screening mammogram even though her 50th birthday has come and gone. That’s the age at which women are advised to get one. But, says Redberg, they detect too many false positives (suspicious spots that turn out, upon biopsy, to be nothing) and tumors that might regress on their own, and there is little if any evidence that they save lives.

These physicians are not anti-medicine. They are not trying to save money on their copayments or deductibles. And they are not trying to rein in the nation’s soaring health-care costs, which at $2.7 trillion account for fully one sixth of every dollar spent in the U.S. They are applying to their personal lives a message they have become increasingly vocal about in their roles as biomedical researchers and doctors: more health care often means worse health. “There are many areas of medicine where not testing, not imaging, and not treating actually result in better health outcomes,” Redberg says. In other words, “less is more.” Archives, which is owned by the American Medical Association, has been publishing study after study about tests and treatments that do more harm than good.

That less health care can lead to better health and, conversely, that more health care can harm health, runs counter to most patients’ conviction that screenings and treatments are inherently beneficial. That belief is fueled by the flood of new technologies and drugs that have reached the market in the past two or three decades, promising to prevent disease and extend life. Most of us wouldn’t think twice if our doctor offered a test that has the power to expose a lurking tumor, or a clogged artery, or a heart arrhythmia. Better to know—and get treated—than to take any risks, the reasoning goes.

In fact, for many otherwise healthy people, tests often lead to more tests, which can lead to interventions based on a possible problem that may have gone away on its own or ultimately proved harmless. Patients can easily be fooled when a screening test detects, or an intervention treats, an abnormality, and their health improves, says cardiologist Michael Lauer of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. In fact, says Lauer, that abnormality may not have been the cause of the problem or a threat to future health: “All you’ve done is misclassify someone with no disease as having disease.” MORE HERE

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The Don’t-Do List: 4 Over-Prescribed Treatments and Tests

by Reader’s Digest Magazine, on Wed Aug 17, 2011 11:49am PDT

What doctors do is important. Equally important: what they don’t do. To keep patients healthier, prevent unnecessary treatment (and side effects), and save health-care dollars, a panel of doctors is urging internists, family medicine specialists, and pediatricians to follow top-five lists of medical don’ts. Here are some of those tests and procedures — and the go-slow approaches that are preferable.

Lower-Back Pain

Don’t do an imaging test within the first six weeks except in special cases.

“The vast majority of back pain goes away on its own,” says Shannon Brownlee, author of Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer. “A back image is not going to help you heal faster, but it can mislead your doctor into thinking that something is wrong, which can lead to costly and unnecessary surgery.” Of course, sometimes tests and treatments are unavoidable (say, if you’re also having bladder problems), so make sure your doctor listens carefully to all your symptoms, says Jerome Groopman, MD, coauthor of the forthcoming Your Medical Mind: How to Decide What Is Right for You. “A really good doctor doesn’t follow a cookbook,” Dr. Groopman says.

Bone-Density Screening

Don’t do a routine bone-density test for women under 65 or men under 70.

The standard test, dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA), measures the mineral content of your bones, but “for premenopausal women, routine screening is a huge scam,” says Brownlee. “It often leads them to take osteoporosis drugs, which is very controversial at best for that age group. At that age, you don’t need a DEXA scan to tell you what you should be doing to prevent osteoporosis.”

PLUS: 8 Old Wives’ Tales: Which Should You Believe

Electrocardiogram (ECG) Screening

Don’t do an annual test if risk is low.

“If you don’t have symptoms and are at low risk for heart disease, chances are pretty good that the test is wrong if it says you do have a problem,” Brownlee says. Even so, your doctor will almost certainly feel compelled to follow up with more invasive tests that carry the risk of injury or even death.
PLUS: 15 Harmless Folk Remedies Worth a Try

Sinus Infection

Don’t give antibiotics for most cases of mild or moderate sinusitis.

“Antibiotics are not ‘anti-every-kind-of-bug’ drugs,” Brownlee says. “They don’t work against viruses, and most sinus infections are caused by viruses.” Plus, overprescribing these drugs can produce stubborn new bacterial strains that antibiotics can’t fight — which can cause problems more serious than sinus trouble. Don’t ask for the hard stuff unless the sinus problem is severe or symptoms last longer than a week or get better and then worsen.

MORE HERE

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Why I heart Jon Stewart & why the GOP/TP hate him so.

I You Jon Stewart!

Jon Stewart one of the BEST OF THE BEST
personalities that we Liberals can claim as our own. This clip on
‘THE POORS’ as Jon puts it shows how Fox (you call that News?)
demonizes the POOR and tries to make their audiences believe that
it is the POOR that is bringing down America with all their
GREED. Say What??? Leave it to Fox “News” to turn
Common Sense into to a CONVOLUTED MANIFESTATION OF
THOUGHT! thinkingblue

http://www.dreammanifesto.com/physical-reality-is-a-manifestation-of-thoughts.html

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-august-18-2011/world-of-class-warfare—the-poor-s-free-ride-is-over

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This Jon Stewart video is.UNBELIEVABLE to the

HIGHEST degree. Jon Stewart can find HUMOR in

almost EVERYTHING… even poverty… so this clip will have some in it but mostly that is guaranteed to make you …!

Watch it (many fox news clips) and weep

and chuckle too but you will probably get a bit…

!!!

I you Jon Stewart! thinkingblue

CREATE JOBS – IT’S THE LAW!

http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4619

This year’s State of the Union address
was only the second since 1948 by a Democratic president that did
not mention poverty or the poor. And the President and Congress
haven’t promoted a bold jobs program.

“When the banks had a national emergency, they bailed them
out and they found $700 billion,” said Cornel West, during a
9-state Poverty Tour with Tavis Smiley. “When we go to war,
we find $1.3 trillion. When the poor and working classes are
living in a state of emergency, it’s a matter of national
security, especially the children. We have 21 percent of our
precious children of all colors living in poverty. That’s morally
obscene in the richest country in the history of the world.”

It’s also illegal, say experts. They point out that the federal
government is required by law to create jobs. The
Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act, the Federal Reserve Act,
and international law require it. A bill now in the House, H.R.
870, would fund job creation as required by Humphrey-Hawkins. If
this is not passed, the President legally must instruct the Fed
to fund job creation.

European nations have their own crises now, but not our level of
poverty. Their example, as detailed in this new column written
for RootsAction by Steven Hill, is glaring proof that we could do
much better than we dare to even dream.

CLICK HERE TO Tell the President
and Congress to create jobs now.

Resources:

Europe’s Quiet Revolution

The Poverty Tour?

Combating the War on the Poor: Cornel West and Tavis Smiley on
Cross-Country “Poverty Tour”

Lost in the Debt Ceiling Debate:
The Legal Duty to Create Jobs

Please sign the petition http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4619 (and leave your TWO CENTS WORTH on this very
important House Bill, H.R. 870, I did. thinkingblue)

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Attn: President Obama and the Florida
leadership in Congress,

As a concerned citizen of this
country, I find it beyond reason how a nation such as ours can
turn its back so easily on those who find themselves in poverty
or in a working poor status due to the lack of jobs. We continue
to see our elected officials, who were voted in so they could
speak and make laws on our behalf but instead appear to only
worry about the top one percent’s, (wealthy billionaires) tax
burdens.

Pass H.R. 870 into
law NOW! http://www.dsausa.org

CLICK HERE
TO Tell the President and Congress to create
jobs now.

Thom Hartmann Delivers Real News About Real Events.

For Those Who Desire The Truth In News No Matter How Depressing.

Here’s an unabashed sample of this week’s news from Thom Hartmann who delivers the nitty-gritty in News. Real News is information about people and how they are affected by world happenings because of that it sometimes comes across as quite distressing and even hopeless. But knowing the facts is the only way change can occur. If you want to know exactly what is going on in our world, you will appreciate Thom Hartmann’s side of the news. If you would rather your news be tainted with misrepresentation and deception then you will find outlets like Fox News more to your liking. It’s as simple as that! thinkingblue

Thom Hartmann August 12, 2011

Thom Har tmann August 11, 2011

Thom Har tmann August 10, 2011

Thom Hartmann: Secrets the Rich don’t Want You to Know

The Mother Of All Questions: When will We-The-People start screaming ENOUGH’S ENOUGH? Sadly, I guess the answer will be blowing in the dust from the bodies of those of us who will inevitably perish.

thethinkingblue.com

Thom Hartmann Reveals Tea Party’s Winning
Secrets –it ain’t rocket science–

Thom Hartmann once again reveals what is going on inside the (Koch Brother’s) Tea Party. Remember when he exposed their Guerrilla Warfare tactics, http://www.thethinkingblue.com/teapartyguerrilla.html an eye
opener for us all.

Thom Hartmann knows we had better use some of their tactics if we wish to keep America Free and maintain a healthy Democracy. We don’t have to join them, just learn from them.

The Tea Party’s bizarre economics – selfish morality – and destructive idealism is ruining our country and no one should turn a blind eye and allow the children to assault our nation and besiege it with ignorance
that will assuredly TAKE IT DOWN. thinkingblue

Thom Hartmann Reveals Tea Party Secrets

–it ain’t rocket science–

I have a mission for you – and it’s not
impossible. Progressives shouldn’t just be FIGHTING the Tea
Party – we should be LEARNING from the Tea Party too. No – not
learning from their bizarro economics – or selfish morality – or
destructive idealism – but instead learning from how they took
control of the Republican Party and forced the entire
Conservative establishment to lurch so far to the Right that
they’ve even dumped people like David Frum. If progressives hope
to have any shot at influencing today’s Democratic Party -
and kicking out the corporate Blue Dog Democrats and replacing
them with real-deal progressives – then we need to get to work
right now – and do exactly what the Tea Party did a year and a
half ago to take power. And it starts in our own backyards. Let
me introduce you to the Concord Project – a right-wing
organization in charge of getting out the vote for Republicans.
Last year – the Concord Project expanded their get out the vote
strategy beyond just traditional phone banking – canvassing – and
putting up “vote Republican” signs – they decided to
infiltrate local politics by encouraging Tea Partiers to become
Precinct Committeemen.

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The Most Powerful Office In The World

Is NOT The President of the United States!

Now wait a minute. Isn’t the President of the United States the
leader of the Western World, the man with his hand on the nuclear
trigger, the head of a ten-trillion dollar nation?

The President is, indeed, the most powerful man
in the world – but the presidency is not the most powerful office
in the world.

Another office is more powerful because it chooses whose names
will appear on the ballot for elective office and what will be
the policies of the political parties that provide the major
support for those candidates. To understand why this office is so
powerful, you must understand the Seven Steps of government.

investigating the original 911 call. MORE HERE—

INJUSTICE! Teen struck by Ohio campus officer’s Stun Gun DIES!

CINCINNATI (AP) — Police say an 18-year-old attending
summer classes at the University of Cincinnati was struck by
a campus officer’s stun gun and died of cardiac arrest.

Officers received a 911 call about an assault at Turner Hall
early Saturday. The university’s assistant police chief, Jeff
Corcoran, tells The Cincinnati Enquirer (http://bit.ly/q3FIuz
) that the teenage boy approached officers in the dorm
hallway, appearing agitated and angry.

Corcoran says officers ordered the teen to back off, but he
refused. He was then hit once by an officer’s stun gun.

Afterward, the teen appeared incoherent. He went into cardiac
arrest after paramedics arrived and was pronounced dead at
University Hospital.

The department has suspended the use of stun guns until his
cause of death is determined. Authorities are also

THIS IS A STORY THAT SHOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED. The Campus Police are there to protect students not to STUN GUN them. The kid went up to the cops for help and they zapped him and he dies… It reminds me of the time in Florida when a young man shouted DON’T TASE ME BRO! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqAVvlyVbag

Watching this video from the 2007 College Police brutality incident in one of our Florida colleges… (still moves me to a bawling point…)

That episode should have created a whole new training program for those people hired to uphold the laws and protect our children during their time learning how to Critically Think.

INJUSTICE IS ALIVE AND WELL and police brutality is still a CANCER that
will grow if left untreated!!!

Sad beyond comprehension!! thinkingblue.blogspot.com

Countdown: Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment of August 1, 2011 – To The Streets

HYPOCRISY 101

Once again Keith Olbermann pours out his outrage at the inequities that have become an ever growing fact and reality in America’s daily life. You can hear the frustrations (something that all of us who THINK can share) in his voice as he tries to sort out the WHY’s or reasons for such inequalities, especially when they are applauded by the groups (i.e. tea baggers) who might languish the most from such disparities.

The media seldom touches upon why ordinary downtrodden people vote for those who would take the last pittance of social safety nets away from all who may one day need them, (those who are hanging on to a proletariat existence by fingernails) leaving all HAVE NOTS out of the proverbial loop of the HAVES (forever!). You might hear a left leaning broadcast, now and then; refer to these pitifuls as Low Information Types without exuding a hint or two of what might be done about it.

Are we to accept those who chose to vote against their own Best Interests, therefore, cheering the downfall of all middle and lower classes into despair (INCLUDING THEMSELVES) as a fact of life? Well Keith Olbermann doesn’t think so but the question remains… How in the hell can we get to these pariahs and make them see what the billionaires (i.e. Koch Brothers) are up to and that is, ‘USING’ LOW INFORMATION TYPES to extend their insatiable driving force (by amassing enough power) to conquer the world.
Sound too farfetched? Just tune into Billionaire Murdoch’s FOX NEWS and listen to the incendiary words of one of their {the billionaires’} shills, Rush Limbaugh for your answer.

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