Sparing The Rod Helps Make A Normal Child

I’ve always thought spanking or slapping kids was WRONG. For some parents beating a child or as the Religious Southerners would say, giving kids a whooping is good for them. I live in a rural community in the middle of the Bible belt and I‘ve seen this aggressive display upon children countless times. In Wal-Mart I heard a mom tell her toddlers,  they were bad and “WAS A GONNA GIT A WHOPPEN! (They were in the back of the store behind some tall shelves so no one could see this monster mom in action) I couldnt see the little kids but I heard them plead for mercy No, please mommy dont do it, we’ll be good We promise! Next sounds were whacking and screaming. How I wished I would have encountered the tyrant and taken her belt and WHOPPED her instead but since I wasnt raised in a house of brutality I didnt try to confront the bitch. What is wrong with these people? Why don’t they realize they’re teaching their kids to become bullies? Ignorance is not bliss, it’s brutal! Please read the article below: SPANKING KIDS LEADS TO AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR thinkingblue

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My parents didnt put me in time-out, they whooped my ass!

By ALICE PARK

Disciplining young children is one of the key jobs of any parent most people would have no trouble agreeing with that. But whether or not that discipline should include spanking or other forms of corporal punishment is a far trickier issue.

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) does not endorse spanking for any reason, citing its lack of long-term effectiveness as a behavior-changing tactic. Instead the AAP supports strategies such as time-outs when children misbehave, which focus on getting kids to reflect on their behavior and the consequences of their actions. Still, as many parents can attest, few responses bring about the immediate interruption of a full-blown tantrum like a swift whack to the bottom.

Now researchers at Tulane University provide the strongest evidence yet against the use of spanking: of the nearly 2,500 youngsters in the study, those who were spanked more frequently at age 3 were more likely to be aggressive by age 5. The research supports earlier work on the pitfalls of corporal punishment, including a study by Duke University researchers that revealed that infants who were spanked at 12 months scored lower on cognitive tests at age 3.

Im excited by the idea that there is now some nice hard data that can back up clinicians when they share their caution with parents against using corporal punishment, says Dr. Jayne Singer, clinical director of the child and parent program at Childrens Hospital Boston, who was not involved in the study.

Led by Catherine Taylor, the Tulane study was the first to control simultaneously for variables that are most likely to confound the association between spanking and later aggressive behavior. The researchers accounted for factors such as acts of neglect by the mother, violence or aggression between the parents, maternal stress and depression, the mothers use of alcohol and drugs, and even whether the mother considered abortion while pregnant with the child.

Each of these factors contributed to childrens aggressive behavior at age 5, but they could not explain all of the violent tendencies at that age. Further, the positive connection between spanking and aggression remained strong, even after these factors had been accounted for.

The odds of a child being more aggressive at age 5 if he had been spanked more than twice in the month before the study began increased by 50%, says Taylor. And because her group also accounted for varying levels of natural aggression in children, the researchers are confident that its not just that children who are more aggressive are more likely to be spanked.

What the study, published Monday in the journal Pediatrics, shows is that outside of the most obvious factors that may influence violent behavior in children, spanking remains a strong predictor. This study controls for the most common risk factors that people tend to think of as being associated with aggression, says Singer. This adds more credence, more data and more strength to the argument against using corporal punishment.

Among the mothers who were studied, nearly half (45.6%) reported no spanking in the previous month; 27.9% reported spanking once or twice; and 26.5% reported spanking more than twice. Compared with children who were not hit, those who were spanked were more likely to be defiant, demand immediate satisfaction of their wants and needs, get frustrated easily, have temper tantrums and lash out physically against others.

The reason for that, says Singer, may be that spanking instills fear rather than understanding. Even if a child were to stop his screaming tantrum when spanked, that doesnt mean he understands why he shouldnt be acting out in the first place. Whats more, spanking models aggressive behavior as a solution to problems.

For children to understand what and why they have done something wrong, it may take repeated efforts on the parents part, using time-outs a strategy that typically involves denying the child any attention, praise or interaction with parents for a specified period of time (that is, the parents ignore the child). These quiet times force children to calm down and learn to think about their emotions, rather than acting out on them blindly.

Spanking may stop a child from misbehaving in the short term, but it becomes less and less effective with repeated use, according to the AAP; it also makes discipline more difficult as the child gets older and outgrows spanking. As the latest study shows, investing the time early on to teach a child why his behavior is wrong may translate to a more self-aware and in-control youngster in the long run.

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Pedifiles and the Catholic Church

RELIGIOUS PEDOPHILES Is The Pope Above The Law?

thinkingblue says: If anyone can put a pen to the Catholic Church leaders (especially the Pope) atrocious oath of silence, to not expose the (PEDOPHILIA) scourge, and in unequivocal language that leaves no latitude for rebuttal, John Cory can. In this article (below) he tells the side of the victim; the young children who had no authority to go to, no protector to save them and no voice to tell about the silent suffering they had to tolerate during the dark minutes, hours, days of torment they endured while in their early years of life… (in HELL!)
Hell is a place, that the very institute of which their parents had thrust them into, to learn how to stay out of, when their lives on Earth had ceased (Catholic Belief System). Please read his words they will cause you to feel the pain of the victims, not the so called excuses from the perpetrators. The sorrow of this story is intense beyond words!

Pope Benedict XVI attends Palm Sunday Mass at the Vatican, 03/28/10. (photo: Getty Images)

A Personal Issue, The Catholic Church Scandal
By John Cory, Reader Supported News
28 March 2010
My views on child abuse and child molestation are harsh and unforgiving and forged by the fires of my own childhood. I give no quarter on this issue.
I have no kind words or forgiving thoughts for the Catholic hierarchy or their enablers, which brings me to Bill Donohues article on the CNN Opinion web site. You can read what he says here but Ill give you my version:
Child abuse and molestation is bad but this stuff happened a long time ago and times were different then and besides everyone does it including churches, schools, businesses and even the Jews. This is all about picking on the Catholic Church for headlines.
Mr. Donohue you are performing a cheap parlor trick of turning the Catholic Church into the victim here and frankly, it is disgusting. The victims are at the center of this issue, not you and your Catholic ego.
This is not an attack on the Catholic Church. It is about holding the men accountable who lead the Church. And that includes the Pope.
In the wonderful novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, Baba tells his son Amir: There is only one sin and that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft When you kill a man, you steal a life. When you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.
Men, not God, not Church, stole innocence and trust, privacy and possession of ones body and spirit. Can there be a more heinous crime?
While you dress your Cardinals and Pope in fine linens and moral rectitude, the molested cover themselves in revulsion and self-loathing believing they did something to cause this crime.
While you parade about with burning incense and wafers of contrition the raped and battered wander in doubt and confusion as to how God let this happen.
While you sprinkle the Water of Oblivion and chant sacred liturgies the true victims suffer the holy trinity of abuse, alienation and abandonment.
How dare you cloak the Church in victimhood.
Should the deaf children thank God that they were not able to hear their rapists grunts and gasps of pleasure at defilement?
Should the molested thank God that they eventually became old enough to no longer be attractive to priests? Or should they have prayed for faster transfers?
Should the abused take comfort in the knowledge that it was only a few bad apples in the Church and they were just unfortunate to be among the chosen prey?
What you defend is not the Church but the silence of power, the sin of willful ignorance and the sin of omission by those who turned a blind eye to the torture and horror at the hands of Gods devoted servants.
What you defend is the murder of the soul.
The first day of abuse becomes an eternity of pain and despair and night becomes a never-ending reel that assaults the senses. The smell and feel of sin forever burned into the brain haunting the heart and soul.
I dont know how to explain this horror in a way to make you understand.
I can tell you that abuse smells like Old Spice and Vaseline Hair Tonic wafting in the air with each blow. I can tell you that abuse tastes like oatmeal on a dishrag in my mouth to keep me from screaming. I can tell you that abuse burns like a tub of scalding water boiling away my sins and it stings like the slice of a knife to bleed out that evil blood inside of me. I can tell you that the sound of abuse is an icy echo: Im only doing this because I love you. If you were good, you wouldnt make me do this.
There is not a bonfire in Hell big enough for the souls of these people to burn in as far as I am concerned. And the statute of limitations should match the term of punishment and damnation eternity.
The perpetrators stole innocence and purity, trust and love, and beautiful childhood souls like they were nothing more than trinkets of idol pleasure.
But the greatest theft came from the Cardinals and Bishops and authorities. They stole in silence just like a thief in the night. They were soundless accomplices to the murder of souls.
They stole truth from those who needed its protection most. They stole the right to be heard and to be believed. They stole love and hope and the sanctity of the church.
They stole God.
To defend any of this is to steal the last vestige of dignity and honor and justice from those who deserve it most.
There is only one sin and that is theft.

Thou shalt not steal.

I found this next article while searching this subject on the Internet. It is so good, I am printing it here in its entirety. thinkingblue

PEDOPHILIA AND SOCIETY

PEDOPHILES ARE ADULTS WHO PREFER CHILD SEXUAL PARTNERS. Pedophiles, who prefer child sexual partners within their own family, are said to be “INCESTUOUS”. From the Compton’s Encyclopedia: Pedophilia is the sexual abuse of children which often involves parents, siblings, or other family members in forbidden relationshipschildren are exposed to sensations and practices that they are not quite mature enough to understand. The types of abuse may range from fondling to rape, and kidnap victims are often molested before they are killed. Others may be the objects of pedophiles (adults who prefer child partners). Sexually abused children who try to break the pattern by running away may be lured into street crime or exploited in child prostitution and pornography rings. I believe publications) make light of this horrible, tragic, deviant sexual practice. Such attitudes are as if Pedophilia is so horrible, that it should be “swept under the rug” or better yet, not spoken about. Such is the power of important sexual deviants (high in church and political circles), as to make the subject taboo to the general public.There should always be grave concern about Pedophiles in our Society because it destroys the innocence of children; thereby negatively affecting their lives and of those of many other innocent people. I have written this paper in the hope of alerting more people to the problem, and its ramifications. Perhaps by opening a dialogue (blog- if you like) we may together find ways to help stem this cancer in our society and morality. Just who are Pedophiles?

1.PEDOPHILES are men / women who have strong sexual inclination (lust) toward boys, or girls. They believe there is nothing wrong with their sexual inclinations, and see them as normal, and feel misunderstood by Society (sort of like druggies). I have come to believe they are born this way (hardwired for children), and cannot be dissuaded or changed by persuasion, or the love of God.

2.PEDOPHILES are young adults, adult, middle-aged and old men (and women). They exist in all races and walks of life, poor, rich, uneducated, highly educated it makes no difference! More often than not, they are very intelligent and cunning. They truly are the moral “wolves” in society, and have been so since time immemorial. Pedophile Clerics are truly:“wolves in sheep’s clothing”

3. PEDOPHILES often seek jobs, or professions, that will put them in close contact with young children (a pool of victims), and a position of authority, to facilitate carrying out their perverse designs and sexual fantasies. They may, or may not act out such fantasies, but they have a “deviant” mentality and perverse sexual fantasies

4. PEDOPHILES of the worst kind are INCESTUOUS FATHERS AND MOTHERS, because they irreversibly damage the psyche of their victims within their own family, often for many generations yet to come, and usually destroy family unity. AS SUCH PEDOPHILES ARE DESTRUCTIVE OF THE FAMILY AS THE NUCLEUS OF OUR SOCIETY AT LARGE.

5. PREDATORY PEDOPHILES ARE SOMETIMES willing to kill their victims to protect their own freedom to satisfy their sexual fantasies again. Clearly, THEY ARE THE MOST DANGEROUS KIND, and should be identified, and removed from society as soon as possible.

6. PEDOPHILES cannot be dissuaded or persuaded to change their sexual inclinations by Psychiatric therapy or by counseling intervention. Not even for the love or fear of God! The problem is, they do not acknowledge being deviant, or damaging to their victims even when their victims are babies! Pedophiles are full of fantasies in which they see themselves as Teachers and Masters for a new generation. Damn! Please excuse my indignation. One avenue that has been used is chemical castration (periodic injections through court action), or the use of Anti-Depressants such as Zoloft, and other (SSRIs) by counseling persuasion, since they greatly reduce sexual urge (libido). Wish we had a drug like it to reduce the addictive cravings of druggies.

8. PEDOPHILES are often aided and abetted by the silence of family members and others who know of their actions/inclinations. In most cases of incest, the mother knows, and keeps silence. Considering the consequences of her silence toward the family, she is equally guilty. No one who “Knows” should be silent! A mother’s prime directive as a parent, is to protect her children; not the reputation of an incestuous father – that, is his responsibility.

VICTIMS OF PEDOPHILES

1. GIRLS WHO ARE VICTIMS OF INCEST beginning in childhood will frequently suffer from frigidity (inability to have pleasurable intimate sexual relations with men) resulting from deep-seated feelings of guilt related to sex. Such women feel they must “submit to sex in marriage; this normally has a chilling effect on marital relations, since the husband may misconstrue the wife’s attitude for lack of love, or dissatisfaction with his sexual performance. Left unrecognized, this problem often results in divorce, and eventual breakup of the family. The victim strangely, usually has no memory of the events, let alone the cause of her problems (she thinks it is all natural, and every child’s experience) until late in life; Then, she begins to experience troubling Flashbacks about her childhood and realizes, at first with apprehension; then with disgust, and finally with anger, that she was abused as a child for the sexual gratification of a grownup in her family. Frequently, feelings of guilt and low self-esteem ensue; this can and should be treated by counseling to help the victim internalize the fact that she was a child victim of a Perverse Pedophile (one who acts out his sexual fantasies), through no fault of her own. Psychotherapy or counseling are lengthy, expensive, and (unfortunately) infrequently successful.

2. BOYS OR GIRLS WHO ARE SEDUCED INTO SEX ACTS by a pedophile, also suffer feelings of guilt and low self-esteem that can be highly self-destructive. Such feelings, if left untreated, can lead to promiscuity, prostitution, drug abuse, self-abuse, and even suicide; Victims should be treated by counseling to help the victim internalize the fact that he or she was a child victim of a pedophile, through no fault of hers. The most important things a caring parent can do, is to recognize the signs/symptoms of sexual abuse, seek treatment, and expose the pedophile. The signs and symptoms of sexual abuse in children need exploration, but often include: moroseness (quietness), sadness, desires to be alone, lack of playfulness, and distrust of adults.

WHAT CAN/SHOULD SOCIETY DO?

1. RECOGNIZE THAT THIS PROBLEM and its implications/ramifications, deeply affects our life and Society at large; hence the need to look for ways to combat the problem.
2. EDUCATE PARENTS about Pedophilia and its consequences, and how to teach their children regarding “Nasty” people.

3. EXPLORE WAYS to help individual victims.

4. EXPLORE WAYS to identify pedophiles during the hiring-in process for child vulnerable positions such as: teachers, school bus drivers, Boy Scout leaders, Clergy, Summer Camp Leaders, Day Care Center Workers, etc. This could be done by peter-meter devices, or by observing reaction to naked child photos/art. Employers often require drug use tests legally, dont they? It is time for preemptive action. Society cannot continue to allow wolves/coyotes in the hen house. The toll in destroyed lives is too high! I look forward to your constructive suggestions: legal, legislative (at different levels of government) important hiring places, etc. to fight this worldwide scourge on Society

P.S. I am not looking for excuses/apologies from Pedophiles. I know they see themselves in a special light: “Nobody loves children the way we do”…We thank God for that!

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I am so glad that I have lived long enough to see health care become a right not a privilege. I spent my whole life experiencing the misery, people suffer living in a nation that does not believe it is responsible for its citizens health care. Too many of us have suffered and died just because we were either born into or through no fault of our own, found ourselves in a low income status. I saw it happen in my own family; My mother who was age 56 when she died of cancer due to not having enough money to take advantage of our superb medical system. She was a nonentity and this happens to young and old. What a disgrace! Now at long last we have opened the door (albeit just a crack) to make health care in our country a right. Thank you President Barack Obama, you have done what no president before you could or even cared to do. I am sending a contribution of $25 to this cause and will wear the health care tee shirt that comes with that small offering, proudly. thinkingblue
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The New American Way Blind Ignorance and Hate Filled Bigotry
March 20, 2010

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Thom Hartmann Weighs In On Teabaggers Scorn and Disrespect For Man With Parkinsons Disease

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I stumbled upon the Thom Hartmann Show on Free Speech TV a few months back. Since I had heard of Mr. Hartmann on Air America but really never tuned in… I allowed this channel to remain for awhile so I could see what Thom had to say. I’ve been hooked ever since. Not in the sense that the followers of Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh are HOOKED by: Blind Ignorance and Hate Filled Bigotry; I’m captivated by Thom Hartmann’s ideas and beliefs because of my desire for knowledge. This man has so much knowledge you have to wonder how he can retain it all. He takes phone calls then supports the callers’ questions or statements with his voluminous experience and perception. Many times he will get a question or suggestion and you can almost see the wheels go to work inside his head, admitting he may not know too much on the subject but will look into it.

He’s also not afraid to admit he’s wrong unlike the hate mongers on the right. The Becks and Limbaughs (et al) are so sure they know it ALL, they would never back down or act human with a simple “I have no knowledge of that”, or maybe a “I will research that” Not these right-wing-nuts, It’s always “I KNOW and YOU DON’T!” jingle all the way.

If the right-winded jerks on the right just played their audience (for their listening and viewing pleasure) and that was all there was to it… (Like an evening spent laughing at a comedian in some night club, then you go home) there would be no problem. But their devotees get so riled by the constant baneful and deadly rhetoric that spews from their TVs or radios that their newly found hatefulness spills out onto the streets and they group together and slap a label on themselves like… TEABAGGER (thinking somehow they are aligning with the Boston Tea Party patriots). Now armed with this talk radio/ TV hatred they’re out for blood and anyone on the left is their target, whether it be a Parkinson diseased man or a small boy who just lost his mother to a disease because she had no health insurance. The rest is TEABAG history! thinkingblue aka thethinkingblue

Raucous, ugly buildup to House health care vote
By ALAN FRAM, Associated Press Writer Alan Fram, Associated Press Writer
Sat Mar 20, 9:20 pm ET

WASHINGTON – House Democrats heard it all Saturday — words of inspiration from President Barack Obama and raucous chants of protests from demonstrators. And at times it was flat-out ugly, including some racial epithets aimed at black members of Congress.

Most of the days important work leading up to Sundays historic vote on health care was being done behind closed doors. Democratic leaders cajoled, bargained and did what they could to nail down the votes they will need to finally push Obamas health care overhaul bill through the House.

But much else about the day was noisy, emotional and right out in the open. After more than a year debating the capstone of Obamas domestic agenda and just hours to go before the showdown vote, there was little holding back.

The tone was set outside the Capitol. Clogging the sidewalks and streets of Capitol Hill were at least hundreds — no official estimate was yet available — of loud, furious protesters, many of them tea party opponents of the health care overhaul.

Rallies outside the Capitol are typically orderly, with speeches and well-behaved crowds. Saturdays was different, with anger-fueled demonstrators surrounding members of Congress who walked by, yelling at them.

Kill the bill, the largely middle-aged crowd shouted, surging toward lawmakers who crossed the street between their office buildings and the Capitol. MORE HERE

Associated Press writers Charles Babington and Christine Simmons contributed to this report.

15 Executives Who Get Paid Millions To Deny You Health Care Coverage
The business model of American health insurers is basically: try to get healthy customers as clients, and then resist as long as possible when it comes to paying out claims.

That’s actually not an indictment or a criticism.

It’s just the way our system works, and its screwed up.

Whatever you feel about Obamacare (HEALTH INSURANCE REFORM), you probably think our current system needs reform in some sense.

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THE POWER OF THE BRAIN TO REASON! Inherit The Wind.

The rewriting of US history!

U.S. history textbooks could soon be flavored heavily with Texas conservatism

The nation’s public school curriculum may be in for a Texas-sized overhaul, if the Lone Star state’s influential recommendations for changes to social studies, economics and history textbooks are fully ratified later this spring. Last Friday, in a 10-to-5 vote split right down party lines, the Texas State Board of Education approved some controversial right-leaning alterations to what most students in the state—and by extension, in much of the rest of the country—will be studying as received historical and social-scientific wisdom. After a public comment period, the board will vote on final recommendations in May.

Don McElroy, who leads the board’s powerful seven-member social conservative bloc, explained that the measure is a way of adding balance in the classroom, since academia is skewed too far to the left. And the boards critics have labeled the move an attempt by political extremists to promote their ideology.

The revised standards have far-reaching implications because Texas is a huge market leader in the school-textbook industry. The enormous print run for Texas textbooks leaves most districts in other states adopting the same course materials, so that the Texas School Board effectively spells out requirements for 80 percent of the nation’s textbook market. That means, for instance, that schools in left-leaning states like Oregon and Vermont could soon be teaching from textbooks that are short on references to Ted Kennedy but long on references to conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly.

Here are some of the other signal shifts that the Texas Board endorsed last Friday: CLICK HERE

Texas School Board to Drop Truth From Text Books

Don McElroy, who leads the board’s powerful seven-member social conservative bloc, explained that the measure is a way of adding balance in the classroom, since academia is skewed too far to the left. And the boards critics have labeled the move an attempt by political extremists to promote their ideology.

The above statement is so bizarre and chilling; it belongs in RIPLEYS BELIEVE IT OR NOT!

Since when did truth become a left leaning object? These charlatans, who call themselves a Board of Education, embody anything but EDUCATION!

A dictionary defines EDUCATION as: the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.

Is teaching misinformation, and omitting important historical events (and people) in order to achieve the indoctrination of our children to a one-sided political and religious perspective, a way to a more mature society?

I think not but hey, Vladimir Putin is doing the same thing, with the ordering of a series of new patriotic textbooks of Russian history. (Read Below)

Critics are accusing President Vladimir Putins government of a Soviet-style rewriting of Russian history with a series of new patriotic textbooks to be unveiled in the new school year.

New laws passed this summer have given the government sweeping powers over which textbooks will be used in schools. Teachers and other critics have voiced concerns that this will allow the government to force the use of a single, approved book in each subject essentially a return to Soviet practice.

Mr Putin has complained that the negative view of the Soviet past in current history textbooks is down to the fact that the authors received foreign grants to write them.

Now, the Kremlin claims it wants to change that situation and a recommissioning of Russias history textbooks is under way. A handbook for teachers, on the basis of which a future textbook for students could be written, is called The Modern History of Russia, 1945-2006. Only one of the authors is a professional historian. The book calls Joseph Stalin a contradictory figure, and states that while some people consider him evil, others recognise him as a hero for his role in the Great Patriotic War (the Second World War) and his territorial expansion.

Jumping jehosaphat! It looks as though the Texas school board is emulating The Soviet Union! Those Commies! thinkingblue

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How a group of radical Texas conservatives is rewriting YOUR kids’ textbooks

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Doctors – Over Testing, Over Treating & Under Sympathetic

HERE WE GO AGAIN!

Another study proving doctors are over testing and over prescribing. NO SHIT!

These studies pop up now and then but nothing happens to change the nefarious doctoring methods here in the good ole US of A. Maybe for a short period but then it’s business as usual.

I remember a time when pediatricians’ handed out prescriptions for antibiotics to every child with a case of the sniffles. As a young mother I was led to believe that if I didn’t give my child this “miracle” drug they would surely die. My kids had this potion pumping through their veins at least 2 or 3 times a year. Then, sometime later, it was found that this over treating was causing the antibiotics not to be so ANTI anymore and bacterials were turning into HULKS, so it stopped!  Nice, after I raised my kids on the stuff! I’m so cynical now, that I BELIEVE ‘NUTTIN HONEY’!

BTW, to you teabaggers bellowing HANDS OFF MY HEALTHCARE!. What healthcare? Oh, you mean the one that uses your body as a guinea pig to increase “THEIR” wealth? thinkingblue

Experts say US doctors overtesting, overtreating
By LINDSEY TANNER, AP Medical Writer Lindsey Tanner,

CHICAGO – Too much cancer screening, too many heart tests, too many cesarean sections. A spate of recent reports suggest that too many Americans — maybe even President Barack Obama — are being overtreated.

Is it doctors practicing defensive medicine? Or are patients so accustomed to a culture of medical technology that they insist on extensive tests and treatments?

A combination of both is at work, but now new evidence and guidelines are recommending a step back and more thorough doctor-patient conversations about risks and benefits.

As a medical journal editorial said this week about Obamas recent checkup, Americans including the commander in chief need to realize that more care is not necessarily better care.

Obamas exam included prostate cancer screening and a virtual colonoscopy. The PSA test for prostate cancer is not routinely recommended for any age and colon screening is not routinely recommended for patients younger than 50. Obama is 48. MORE HERE

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On the Net:
The National Institutes of Health: http://bit.ly/a8c7P0
The American Cancer Society: http://bit.ly/9w0fli
Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making: http://www.informedmedicaldecisions.org

Limbaugh vows to flee the country if health care passes.

Hate radio host Rush Limbaugh has been one of health care reform’s most vociferous opponents, warning that “[h]uman beings will die earlier than normal” under the “freedom killing” and “life threatening” plan, and calling for it to be “aborted.” Yesterday, Limbaugh put his money where his mouth is, saying that if health care passes and all his fears are realized, he’ll leave the country:

CALLER: If the health care bill passes, where would you go for health care yourself? And the second part of that is, what would happen to the doctors, do they have to participate in the federal program, or could they opt out of it? [...]

LIMBAUGH: My guess in even in Canada and even in the UK, doctors have opted out. And once they’ve opted, they can’t see anybody Medicare, Medicaid, or what will become the exchanges. They have to have a clientele of private patients that will pay them a retainer and it’ll be a very small practice. I don’t know if that’s been outlawed in the Senate bill. I don’t know. I’ll just tell you this, if this passes and it’s five years from now and all that stuff gets implemented — I am leaving the country. I’ll go to Costa Rica. Listen here:.

If Only We Could Laugh At Ourselves More

If people could laugh at themselves more they wouldnt have the inclination to hate. We’re all in this together but for some reason this thought seems dead in many minds. We all want the same things, don’t we? To love and be loved,  be respected as a feeling human being, not to be judged harshly by our differences in culture, economic status, belief system, race, gender, education, body size, sexual oriantation or our age. But for some reason this empathetic human characteristic of ‘we’re all in this together’ gets put on the back-burner for a whole slew of us. Is it because it’s just remarkably too easy to hate those deemed different?  And besides, it kind of gives one a scapegoat for the ‘why we dont feel so good about ourselves’.If a group of people with opposing opinions sat in a room and watched some funny, both sides of the spectrum, humor and could laugh freely. I believe they would emerge from that room with less hostility and hate.

(Yeah Right! )

Needless to say, John Wagner’s creation, Maxine, makes me laugh myself silly. Here’s
hoping the Grand Ole Gal, can also give you a haha or two.

Have a nice day

(someplace else), thinkingblue

PS: Hey, what’s not to laugh at…
We’re all pretty damn funny so why not just experience The Theater Of The Absurd and laugh at ourselves; maybe it
will help us advance as a species.

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(of our political leaders) HERE...

We really need more dialog from those at the top
The Republicans have got to be made to realize they cant hide
behind NO  any longer! thinkingblue

MOVE TO AMEND

Lets keep our heads,
while we continue to watch THE

THEATER OF THE ABSURD!!!

A SEARCH FOR TRUTH WILL FIND INJUSTICE.

thinkingblue

Is the Movie “Avatar” Becoming A Reality?

The below article is UNBELIEVABLE! Is the Movie “Avatar” Becoming A Reality? Will the Corporate Personhood (Thanks to the Roberts Supreme Court decision Jan 21, 2010) have to seek the riches of far away Planets and Moons once they deplete Earths resources?

THE BEGINNING OF THE END for mankind is underway and already the Omnivorous are setting sail on WHO GETS WHAT, as our planet melts …. The mindset of the Corporatemeisters can only see in $$$$ signs.

There seems to be little concern for the survival of our species. It’s only how much profit can be made with this new found “perk” that Global Warming has stimulated to the point of… “THE WALLS (of Ice) CAME TUMBLING DOWN. What can “WE” do? Is it only watch and do as we’re told? “THEY” WANT US TO BELIEVE THIS!

Global Warming is not a hoax. Its real and its lethal. The Psychopathic Corporate World may learn this someday but don’t count on it. After all a Corporation is amoral and really doesn’t care about the living of this Earth. It’s only profits that count even if it destroys those who make “said profits” possible. http://movetoamend.org thinkingblue

China Eyeing Perks of ice-free Artic

What you are about to witness (in the video below) is the melting of several Glaciers due to Global Warming The Republican Conservative Party has convinced many that Global Warming is a hoax. Tell that to the Greedmeisters who are eyeballing the prospects of greater wealth due to Global Warming and tell that to the victims swept out to sea as a Glacier Melts in front of their eyes and then carries them to their deaths. thinkingblue

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Please Help Tinfoil Hat Dog on facebook.

ATTENTION: FACEBOOK

Would you please tell us
(we the fans of Can-this-poodle-wearing-a-tinfoil-hat-get-more-fans-than-Glenn-Beck)

WHY
TINFOIL HAT POODLE has been put under a FB publish blocked  It doesnt make sense, there has to be an ulterior motive involved. Perhaps, FOX NEWS has contacted you and ordered THE BLOCK.

You see, since it does not make sense you are giving birth to A CONSPIRACY THEORY.

(Maybe there’s some truth in this conspiracy with this headline Rupert Murdoch, CEO of News Corp., the parent company of Fox News, has issued another idle threat in response to what Murdoch perceives to be theft of information. Apparently, he wants News Corp. content removed from Google, because Google is not paying him to index content, and in connection with his idea of requiring visitors to pay to access said content. Read more: http://foxnewsboycott.com/rupert-murdoch/rupert-murdoch-wants-to-needlessly-block-google/#ixzz0gvEf6xsU)

The only thing I have witnessed on this member page was a bunch of people, (who cant stand Glenn Beck or how Fox News pushes him and his hate mongering in all of our faces) getting together to rant and support the idea that Glenn Beck isn’t the only one or CREATURE that has a strong following. Even when his sponsors have pulled out in droves Rupert Murdoch and his Fox News Network, keeps him on the air. Indeed, there is money to be made in promoting FEAR AND HATE. So the Skys The Limit and No Holds Barred!

America is fast becoming an Oligarchy (Ruled by Corporations.) and it looks as though FACEBOOK is contributing to America’s (We The People) demise.

Please unblock the publishing rights for http://www.facebook.com/pages/Can-this-poodle-wearing-a-tinfoil-hat-get-more-fans-than-Glenn-Beck/334162806080 and help save
The America Republic and DEMOCRACY!

Thank you, THINKINGBLUE

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Can-this-poodle-wearing-a-tinfoil-hat-get-more-fans-than-Glenn-Beck/334162806080

http://bobthewonderpoodle.com

Please Write To-
info@facebook.com, appeals@facebook.com
Tell them to give the page back the publishing rights to the owner AND dont forget to include the URL from this site http://www.facebook.com/pages/Can-this-poodle-wearing-a-tinfoil-hat-get-more-fans-than-Glenn-Beck/334162806080

BREAKING NEWS:

THIS JUST IN FROM Bitsy Bob It has been said that I Bobs mom (and original image holder) gave everyone permission to use Bitsys picture. This was a false claim. While we do appreciate everyones support, please do not take other peoples word for Bob/Bitsy. As the owner (sorry to have to use the trump card here), only I can make claims, comments and authorizations for Bob/Bitsy, her image and its use. Thank you. BitsyBob

I sent Bob a message Please use my poodles image:

Denounce Glenn Becks Vicious Attacks
Glenn Beck told last weeks annual meeting of the lunatic right-wing fringe:

progressivism is the cancer in America and its eating our Constitution.

Sign the petition below to denounce Glenn Becks vicious attacks:

http://www.dccc.org/page/s/beckcpacfbad

It is beyond reason that ANYONE listens to this greedy idiot. There was a time, a cognitive time when he would have been laughed off the stage or theater Fox News has provided him. What happened to our country and how did it get so half-witted? Its getting so an American will not want to be called an American because the label will be synonymous with ignorant. This small man is a joke and only he knows the motives behind what drives him to look, sound and act so psychotic. $$$$! Now we all know! thinkingblue.blogspot.com