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For Immediate Release
January 10, 2008

Pennsylvania’s Leading RN Association Joins CNA/NNOC, Nation’s Largest Nurses’ Union

The Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals (PASNAP) is joining the nation’s largest union of registered nurses, the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (AFL-CIO), leaders of both organizations announced today.

With the affiliation, CNA/NNOC will now represent more than 80,000 RNs in all 50 states. PASNAP has some 5,100 members.

CNA/NNOC and PASNAP have been two of the fastest growing unions in the U.S. with a stellar growth record. In the past decade, CNA/NNOC has grown by more than 370 percent. Since 2001, CNA/NNOC has gained more than 30,000 new members. PASNAP has a similar record of growth, boosting its membership by 40 percent this decade.

"By joining forces with CNA and the National Nurses Organizing Committee, Pennsylvania nurses will benefit from the resources and expertise of the most dynamic and effective professional nurse unions in the nation" said PASNAP President Patty Eakin, RN. "When the collective voice of nurses is strengthened, the main beneficiaries are patients and their families."

“We are thrilled to welcome the dynamic members of PASNAP into our growing movement of direct care RNs,” said Zenei Cortez, RN, member of the CNA/NNOC Council of Presidents.

“We have a long and proud history and a close working relationship with PASNAP, and a shared mission on the most fundamental issues for RNs,” said Cortez. This mission includes “increasing the power of bedside nurses, promoting the health and well-being of patients against the erosion of patient protections, strengthening RN standards, winning RN-to-patient ratios, and transforming our healthcare system.”

AFL-CIO President John Sweeney also greeted the news. "The AFL-CIO is delighted to welcome the PASNAP nurses into the AFL-CIO through their affiliation with CNA/NNOC.”

“With such deep problems in health care and such tremendous challenges facing working people, there is no more important time for nurses to unite for a stronger voice. The joining together of these two aggressive unions for registered nurses is great news," Sweeney said.

‘Unite All Nurses Into One Powerful Organization’

“Our unity is a strong signal to nurses in Pennsylvania and other nurses across the nation of the opportunity for growth, a stronger voice in the workplace and the public arena. All nurses should be united in one powerful organization,” said CNA/NNOC Executive Director Rose Ann DeMoro.

Eakin emphasized that the affiliation presents exciting new avenues for Pennsylvania RNs. “PASNAP increases its opportunities to improve the working lives of nurses and the care they deliver to patients by affiliating with CNA/NNOC as it has successfully fought for nurses and won vital patient safety measures such as California’s nurse to patient ratio law.”

California’s landmark RN-to-patient ratio law was enacted in 1999, and has led to major improvements in patient safety and working conditions for RNs, Cortez noted. The final stage of the law’s phase in occurred January 1, 2008. CNA/NNOC members have introduced similar measures in Arizona, Illinois, Maine, Ohio, and Texas. PASNAP is also promoting a ratio law.

“Every day, nurses work hard to save lives. We should never work short-staffed because it inevitably means that we cannot safely deliver care,” said Eakin, citing the Pennsylvania bill, HB 171, sponsored by Tim Solobay, “mirroring the bill that CNA fought to make law in California.”

“Now that the facts have been established that California’s safe staffing bill has helped reverse the nursing shortage in California, Pennsylvanians should have to wait no more. What has been won in California should be won in Pennsylvania and nationwide for the sake of safe patient care,” Eakin added.

Both organizations are also active in the national campaign for HR 676, which would establish a Medicare for all system in the U.S. that would be on par with healthcare systems in every other industrialized nation. In the past year, PASNAP has joined with CNA/NNOC in campaigning for HR 676 and advocating for genuine reform.

PASNAP was created in May 2000 when nurse delegates voted to separate from the teachers union, PSEA, where they were a subsidiary group. The nurses had previously been part of the Pennsylvania Nurses Association. CNA/NNOC was founded in California in 1903 and is one of the nation’s best known champions of healthcare reform and patient advocacy.

Rep. Holt, on Keith, just said that legislation to verify votes and have a recount method, has been held up in the House (due to internal and extenal  situations) for TWO YEARS.  Held up in the dem house.  Can we extrapolate something from this?

Jeez............

Voters in SC will be voting on machines 100%.

This is so disheartening.  

Howard is first!

BO and HC are sounding more and more like JE every day, becoming oh so concerned about average Americans.  HC has started.  Watch for BO to change his stump speech.

Phonies as they come.  Agree with thine adversary and then do what you want later. 

Donate to John Edwards

When this is all over, America's masks of racism and sexism will have been ripped off.  Will THAT wake up the citizens?

HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON REPRESENTS "EXCLUSIVE" DEMOCRACY FOR AMERICA

Like Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party, NSDAP, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party] was really good to the Ayran people, Hillary Rodham Clinton is a really good person to the Professional Middle Class and the Democratic Leadership Council, DLC, of Democratic Party toadies to the American aristocracy; like Hitler was not so nice to those who were not Ayran, Hillary Rodham Clinton is not so nice to the 70% MAJORITY COMMON POPULATION of the United States as a class and culture that are not a part of the Professional Middle Class.

Hillary Rodham Clinton directly represents the Professional Middle Class, a 20% MINORITY POPULATION of the United States, indirectly represents the American aristocracy, a 10% MINORITY POPULATION of the United States, and represents the 70% MAJORITY COMMON POPULATION of the United States in much the same way as Hitler represented people in the German Reich that were not Ayran and in the same way that Orwell's "the Party" represented "the Proles". Hillary Rodham Clinton is representative of Orwell's "the Party" that is composed of the "Inner Party", the American aristocracy, and the "Outer Party", the Professional Middle Class; Hillary Rodham Clinton does not represent "the Proles", the 70% MAJORITY COMMON POPULATION of the United States, who are without political representation in the government of the United States.

The 70% MAJORITY COMMON POPULATION of the United States as a class and culture need a better option than the orthodox choice of voting for either the "Inner Party" or "Outer Party" of "the Party", that represents the 70% MAJORITY COMMON POPULATION of the United States as Orwellian Proles; it is time for the 70% MAJORITY COMMON POPULATION of the United States to awaken from their orthodox Democratic Party-Republican Party, "Outer Party"-"Inner Party" choice of "the Party" and to politically move to secure actual political representation of the 70% MAJORITY COMMON POPULATION of the United States in the government of the United States, rather than to continue to allow themselves to be politically represented by "the Party", the Inner and Outer Party of Republican Party-Democratic Party DUOPOLY as Orwellian Proles.

It's time for a change.

It is time for a change to actual democracy for America, rather than Orwellian democracy for America, as is the case at the present time in 21st Century America.

It is time for a change for democracy for America that is inclusive of the 70% MAJORITY COMMON POPULATION of the United States, rather than exclusive democracy for America for just the American aristocracy and the Professional Middle Class, a combined 30% MINORITY POPULATION of the United States.

It is time for INCLUSIVE democracy for America to grow in the United States, and it is time for EXCLUSIVE democracy for America to die in the United States.

It is time for the 70% MAJORITY COMMON POPULATION of the United States to make INCLUSIVE democracy for America happen, and to preside over the death of EXCLUSIVE democracy for America.

Nevada Armenian Americans Will Make Difference in Presidential Caucus Set for January 19, 2008

Las Vegas, NV – The strong growth of the Armenian American community in Nevada will be a factor in the upcoming Presidential caucus slated for January 19, 2008. In a new development this Presidential election cycle, both the Republican and Democratic Party caucuses have been moved forward in the primary calendar, bringing more attention and importance to the Silver State’s upcoming caucus.

A recent article in the Las Vegas Review Journal summed up the increased relevance of Nevada in picking the next president. "The eyes of the nation will be on the Silver State's voters as never before in 2008, and those seeking the presidency of the United States will surely be spending ample time in Nevada getting out their message and securing support," remarked Las Vegas area Congresswoman Shelly Berkley (D-NV). more...
http://www.anca.org/press_releases/press...

Free speech is all but dead here.

Protesters Demand Guantanamo Close: 80 Arrested
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011108R.shtml
The Associated Press: "Eighty people were arrested at the Supreme Court Friday in a protest calling for the shutdown of the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba."
 

Clinton Optical scan 91,717 52.95%
Obama Optical scan 81,495 47.05%

Clinton Hand-counted 20,889 47.05%
Obama Hand-counted 23,509 52.95%

The percentages appear to be swapped. That seems highly unusual, to say the least.

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I am no expert but what are the odds of these percentage points being exact but in reverse?  Is it possible they were reversed?

http://www.zimbio.com/2008+Presidential+Candidates/articles/3409/NEW+HAMPSHIRE+RECOUNT+ONLY+JUST+THING+OPTICAL

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seashell :-)
Fri, 01/11/08

It's because their National Campaigns are moving into west. The western states have some of the most diverse and forward thinking progressive voters in the nation. The densely populated areas in California are very blue. If they show up and campaign in LA or SF their messages must be very progressive. The debate in LA happening later this month should be very interesting. I just hope it doesn't turn into a who's who in Hollywood. California is a HUGE state with a very diverse population. We deserve more than a Hollywood Movie premiere audience. The debate should have been held in Sacramento our state's capitol instead.

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for TWO YEARS.  Held up in the dem house. 

Actually the Dems have been in control of the House only ONE year.

I wish Holt would have elaborated a bit more about why the holdup. I understand there are some similar bills in the Senate.

I signed a MoveOn Petition the other day to be sent to Congress demanding that election legislation be taken up immediately. I posted the link on this blog if anyone wanted to sign it.

The cosmic cloud is heading for us at more than 240km/sA giant cloud of hydrogen gas is racing towards a collision with the Milky Way, astronomers have announced.

Smith's Cloud, as it is known, may set off spectacular fireworks when it smacks into our galaxy in 20-40 million years.

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When this is all over, America's masks of racism and sexism will have been ripped off.  Will THAT wake up the citizens

We may be seeing that happening right before our eyes in this primary! Racism and sexism are slowly but surely being called out for what they are right now and naming names of the doers too. The doers quickly deny what they just said, nevertheless it is now out there. 

CNN has become upfront racists by dropping the word "black" whenever it's convenient just to remind everyone that the leading candidate is -- well, black, or at least half black which is enough for any racist.. Perhaps Blitzer would like to exploit the white side of this candidate.

And the eternal redundant reference to the "woman" candidate is disgusting (though I can't stand Hillary herself). A male candidate is not referred to as a "man" candidate so why the woman stuff.

Will one of them become either our black president or our woman president? No, just our president, same as any other 3rd-world country. How silly and in-your-face can this get? The media drives me crazy.

bbl

The Magellanic Clouds are irregular dwarf galaxies
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Two nearby galaxies - long thought to be true companions of the Milky Way - may instead be drifters, passing through the cosmic neighbourhood.

Astronomers say the Magellanic Clouds may be moving too fast to be gravitationally bound to our galaxy.

Details of the research were presented at the 209th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in Seattle.

Perhaps they are travellers, just passing through our cosmic neighbourhood
Nitya Kallivayalil, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

These properties are well known for the Magellanic Clouds, and relatively easy to measure.

More difficult to determine are the "proper motions" of the galaxies - their actual motion across the sky (not towards or away from the Earth).

This requires astronomers to take extraordinarily precise measurements over several years.

"The Magellanic Clouds may not be true companions of the Milky Way," Dr Kallivayalil said. "Perhaps they are travellers, just passing through our cosmic neighbourhood."

Their velocities relative to one another are unexpectedly high. This observation may explain why the two galaxies did not merge long ago.

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had to post a couple of refutations of Creationism since Huckabee is poised to win in South Carolina

Police Break Into House To Take Child To the ER

JBS | January 11, 2008
Ann Shibler

A family home was the scene of an unannounced police raid because the authorities suspected that the parents had failed to provide proper medical care for their 11-year-old boy who suffered a head injury.

Follow this link to the original source: " County seizes son for medical care "

Eleven-year-old Jon Shiflett, a typical boy, was horsing around and grabbed the door handle of a slowly moving car driven by his sister, a few doors down from the family home. He slipped and hit his head hard on the concrete. Jon's father, Tom, was first on the scene, assessed the situation, picked up his son, carried him home and applied ice to Jon's head. The elder Shiflett was a medic in Vietnam during the Tet Offensive. With that experience, he is quite capable of assessing a whole host of injuries and properly monitoring an injured patient. He reported that Jon's eyes were not dilated, and that the child appeared to be okay except for some cuts, the bump on his head and a developing black eye.

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In the meantime, however, someone � a nosy neighbor, perhaps � had called a rescue squad. They arrived at the Shiflett home and examined the boy. The boy's parents, however, refused transport to the hospital for treatment. According to Mr. Shiflett, it wasn't necessary. "I told them I didn't call for an ambulance. We're taking care of it," he said.

Rebuffed, the paramedics retreated from the house, and contacted social services who made a surprise visit to the Shiflett home the next day. Two caseworkers were allowed to look at the boy but Shiflett again refused to let them take the child. They vowed to return with a court order. And so they did.

This time, heavily armed law enforcement officials arrived and without warning forcibly entered the house. Mom Tina Shiflett said they were wearing masks, broke down the door with a battering ram, and pointed a gun at their 20-year-old daughter's head. Both parents and one daughter were handcuffed.

It's not just LA or SF who elected Nixon, Reagan, Bill Clinton, Gore and Schwarzenegger it was the rest of California who did. It's because they showed up and campaigned in the whole state not just the beaches. There is a lot more to California than the beach. In 2004 Boxer got more votes than Kerry in California. They did campaign together in SF and LA but Boxer also campaigned all over the state and Kerry didn't. Kerry's campaign and the DNC spent very little here but they took lots of money out of the state and away from our state's candidates. Folks here were just not very happy about it. Boxer always has had a real grassroots campaign that covers the entire state. The Republicans also campaign everywhere in the state and send mailers to EVERY registered voter in our area. It's weird to get Republican materials in the mail when you're a Democratic Party County Chair.

Kucinich Backs New Hampshire Recount
Vote fraud expert Bev Harris warns he could be walking into a trap Prison Planet | January 11, 2008
Paul Joseph Watson

Citing "serious and credible reports, allegations and rumors" about the integrity of Tuesday's results, Congressman Dennis Kucinich is backing a full recount of ballots for the Democratic contest in New Hampshire, meaning that both party's primaries may now both be cast into doubt. However, vote fraud expert Bev Harris has warned that it could all be a trap to validate Diebold electronic voting machines.

As we reported yesterday, New Hampshire Republican candidate Albert Howard is prepared to put his name behind a primary recount in order to ascertain if the example of "human error" in the town of Sutton, where Ron Paul was originally given zero votes, was an isolated case or if wider vote fraud took place.

There are three different candidates with three different messages and three political constituents but you can't ignore the "historic" nature of two out of three, Joan.

Brad Blog
January 10, 2008

Even the Exit Polls showed that Obama should have won, according to Chris Matthews on Hardball today. It’s the first specific indication that we’ve seen that the raw, unadjusted Exit Poll data, which only corporate mainstream media folks, not mere mortals, are allowed to see, confirmed all of the pre-election polling which predicted an Obama win.

He introduced his segment today this way (video at right):

MATTHEWS: So what accounts for Hillary Clinton’s victory in New Hampshire? What we don’t know is why the victory is so much different in fact, then the polling ahead of time, including what we call the Exit Polls were telling us. Obama was ahead in those polls by an average of 8 points, and even our own Exit Polls, taken as people came out of voting, showed him ahead. So what’s going on here?

Nevada is a caucus state with a head count and they are up next.

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Phil Specht
Fri, 01/11/08

I wonder where else in the universe they have been? Did you know cosmic stuff like this is recorded on the Ziggurats in Iraq?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziggurat

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zecharia_Si...

At Open Left, Matt Stoller blogs with the following message under the title Got Memories of Dean's Perfect Storm in Iowa?:

"I'm doing some work analyzing the field campaigns of 2008 and 2004.  If you were in Iowa wearing one of those orange hats, I'm curious what it was like.  I was there and I phone-banked and canvassed, and I remember it as a disorganized mess where I kept calling people who had already been contacted repeatedly or had wrong numbers.  But I only did a half day of work. 

"I'm mostly interesting in the logistical elements.  What was it like for you?"

people of the night sky

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LA or SF who elected s/b LA and SF who elected

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleiades_%2...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_G...

Barak has had seven (7) opportunities to vote for womens right to choose.  Each time, he chose to vote "Present" therefore being able to walk the tight rope and tell each side that he didn't vote for the other.  what a slime.

Nh recount info:

http://tinyurl.com/3dtlu3

Democrats have always been racist and sexist--they're simply more covert about it (esp. party insider hacks).

As Susan has done upthread, "Chair" and "Vice Chair" is 100% appropriate.

*Never* Chairwoman, Chairman, or Chairperson (also: Representative so & so, vs. Congresswoman, Congressman, or Congressperson).

"Person" within the root derivative is a redundant given. The rest is socially constructed sexism.

Make sure your lit reflects gender neutral linguistics...it matters (influences perception).

Position of power/role/responsibility, vs. penis, folks.

Just saw a really, really good movie (DVD):

El Laberinto del Fauno

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan's_Labyrinth

http://elbo.ws/video/9npKr-suw4M/

Someone just turned me onto this.  Read the new energy alert. (not about oil or gas) LOL

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"These past few months may have left many of us feeling traumatized, exhausted, irritable, frazzled, and needing a long rest, or perhaps even just a period of time for self nurturing and an escape from any moving energy. And this is what January will give us. There is an emptiness now, an almost bottoming out, but this is just the in-between point right before all the magnificence arrives. We may feel as if we have “dropped” somewhere, but this is only because all the excavating is finally over.

Yes, the bulldozer of deep cleansing has gone to another place for the time being, even though we are still detoxing, adjusting, and re-aligning. Are we now soon to arrive in the Promised Land forever more? Will we arrive in Heaven for a permanent residency? Well……

The longer the cleansing and experience of darkness is, the bigger, longer, and more magnificent the experience of a higher realms reality is when it eventually arrives. So then, this will be a monumental one indeed. This new space we can now find ourselves in is a new rung on the ascension ladder, a very new plateau, and is indeed a bit different from all the rest.

http://www.whatsuponplanetearth.com/latest.htm 

what a slime.

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Hoho, that's a good deal too harsh, Little*Mz.

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 I met a Postal worker, today, here in Massachusetts - the state Mitt Romney was once Governor (DFA Listed Deval Patrick now holds that Office), who said he would never vote for Mitt, because of something Mitt's wife said five years ago.

Seems Mrs Romney answered a question saying, "Oh we had a rough go of it during Mitt's University days...we had to cash in some of the bonds mitt's father gave Mitt."

Tough times, indeed!  Too bad, they couldn't manage on the interest.  Poor Mitt.

vs. penis, folks

> Beats me wtf yer gabbin' about.

The official government crop report showed a record corn crop with the increase in production exceeding the useage for ethanol increase.

Let's hope rational people here don't buy the oil company propoganda that ethanol is causing higher food costs.

Transportation costs however have gone through the roof.

Barak has had seven (7) opportunities to vote for womens right to choose.

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I would trust him to appoint Supreme Court Justices that view Roe v/ Wade as settled law. I can't see that as being a reason to vote against him, though there might be others.

Oy!  Can we still say *black* or is that now not pc?  Do we have to say African American?  If so, I'll shorten it to AA which is a bit odd, but I don't want to sit at the keyboard typing all sorts of pc thingies.  I'm abbreviating Constitution to Const.  .. or something like that.  Try typing that one fast.

So BO and HC are changing their speeches to give the people what they want to hear, not to give the people info about what they really think.  Not good. 

Release Date
November 15, 2007          
Contact: Mike Wessler
(406) 859-8683
mikew@vote-smart.org

PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES FAIL TO DEMONSTRATE POLITICAL COURAGE

Manchester, NH / Washington, DC - Project Vote Smart has released the results of its Presidential Political Courage Test, which showed 55% of presidential candidates were willing to expose their positions on issues of obvious concern to citizens. This represented an 8% decline in the candidates' willingness to provide such crucial information to citizens since 2004. This also demonstrated the candidates' increasing interest in controlling the public's access to information regarding their intentions on issues.

Most startling, only three candidates receiving major media attention were willing to provide specific issue information to voters:

    * Chris Dodd
    * John Edwards
    * Mike Gravel

Democratic Party Rules are very specific about the requirement for gender balance so despite individual local old boy networks the delegations from every state to Denver will be balanced. I've served with six female State Chairs and seven males, and two female District Chairs and no males here in Iowa and our last two Chairs in our county have been women and four out of eight.

http://www.eatskeet.com/2008/01/11/recent-random-cool-stuff/      chain reaction video

Roughly half of the delegates to Denver will be women, but I doubt that will gain Hillary an advantage, she will have to win them in primary contests.

JE is waaaaayyyy out in front with the peoples' interests at heart since he's been talking this way for a year.   And the other two are copying him, JFK, MLK etc.  Not nice of them.  Their interest in us will last until Jan 09.

I'd prefer a nice prez.  A good solid man or woman.  HC doesn't fit the solid nice thing.

After 04, why are those Diebolds even being used?  Can't we just print and run off ballots and hand count all of them?  What is so difficult about this?

New thread.

Watching John Edwards interact with his wife and daughter I saw nothing but equality of the sexes.

someone still has to explain the seventy four cents on the dollar

I'll trust the advocate of economic justice (Edwards) in the race to be a leader on gender issues of equality.