"Crushed Wildflower"

Existential Insanity 

Voiceless crushed red
Wildflowers

On white gray hues
Of dirty snow

Heat of passion
Smashed in slushy

Half frozen ice
Fused illusions

© Alice Vedral Rivera – digital art and poem 2012

A Cry in the Wilderness - Stand up and take a stand!

This is a comment posted on The Lookout by ‘Bobby’ on Friday, April 15, 2011 (originally written by Charly Reese, a retired syndicated columnist many years ago) and I believe it needs to be heard again:

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and 

then campaign against them.

Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are 
against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?

Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation 
and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?

You and I don't propose a federal budget. The President does.

You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on 
appropriations. The House of Representatives does.

You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.

You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.

You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one President, and nine Supreme 
Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are 
directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the 
domestic problems that plague this country.

I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that 
problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its 
Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally 
chartered, but private, central bank.

I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. 
They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, 
a congressman, or a President to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't 
care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The 
politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the 
lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine 
how he votes.

Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that 
what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con 
regardless of party.

What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive 
amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, 
who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The 
President can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to 
accept it.

The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole 
responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and 
approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? 
John Boehner. He is the leader of the majority party. He and fellow 
House members, not the President, can approve any budget they want. If 
the President vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree 
to.

It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot

replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of 

incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic 
problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you 
fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the 
federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they 
want to exist.

If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.

If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red.

If the Army & Marines are in Iraq and Afghanistan it's because they 
want them in Iraq and Afghanistan ....

If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement 
plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.

There are no insoluble government problems.

Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they 
hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and 
advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to 
regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let 
them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical 
forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them 
from doing what they take an oath to do.

Stand up and take a stand!

A Cry in the Wilderness – Enough of your games!

By being complacent, we are complicit!

We are tired of the political games being played by our elected officials.  We are tired of our elected officials putting their political parties before our best interests.  We have had enough of our elected officials selling out our interests in favor of big business in exchange for big $$$$$$ for their individual and collective coffers!

I say: ‘Off with their political heads’!!!   They should not only not be paid if they can’t represent us properly, but I vote that they should refund their salaries for the past few years for not doing their jobs! 

I am not alone in feeling this way.  Quit voting for them (on both sides of the aisle).  Vote for people without ties to the political machines and to big businesses.  Get rid of all lobbyists!  Raise a stink when the prevalent political machines use every dirty trick they can come up with to get a person voted on by us (the people) to withdraw so they can insert one of their own into the slot, re: Illinois.  Do some research and boycott the businesses that support these people.  They only understand 1 thing - $$$$.  Hit them where it hurts. 

Why do we keep voting for the same people and expecting a different result?????

We need to make our voices heard.  There are more of ‘us’ than there are of ‘them’.  Make a note of those officials that are blocking the newly voted in (without ties to political machines and big business) who are trying to do that which we voted them in to do. 

I say: ‘Shower them with love♥, but do not vote for them or their cronies in 2012 and do not buy products made or marketed by the companies that support them.’ 

Stand up and take a stand!  ♥

This is my 10¢ worth.  Feel free to add yours.

I wrote this yesterday and shared it on The Artist In You Blog: 

We have awakened -

We are many 

We have chosen to

Be the chosen

Your darkness cannot

Obliterate

Our light - the light from

Our hearts will shine

Upon you with love

Dispelling the

Darkness of lies - the

Veil will drop

And truth shall prevail

We are many

We have awakened

We are all one

The truth shall prevail

We are all one

We have awakened

We are many

The powerful truth

We are many

We are all one

We have awakened

 © Alice Vedral Rivera 2011 ♥ 

I have an old dishwasher that doesn’t clean very well so I have to pre-wash my dishes.  My husband and I have finally come to a point where, based on our tight budget, a new dishwasher was close to becoming a reality.

 

However, after reading the article linked below, I believe that spending the money to upgrade my dishwasher would be a waste since the new dishwashers really depend on the detergent to work properly and the detergent makers have decided, based on the requirements of one part of the US - Washington State, to make and sell only the almost phosphorous free formula as of July 2010.  The article explains the reasoning and folly behind this.

 

When Procter & Gamble customer reps tell their customers who complain about how its detergent no longer works to consider hand washing the dishes instead, why waste your hard earned money on buying a new dishwasher?????  They will make money as you will still be buying dishwashing soap from them - the hand washing kind.   

 

Dishwasher manufacturers will most assuredly see a drop in sales as the word spreads, for who needs a dishwasher that because of detergent that doesn’t work - doesn’t work.

 

I, for one, will continue to pre-wash my dishes and use my old dishwasher to sanitize and dry them instead of buying a new dishwasher and still have to hand wash the dishes. 

 

The article is a bit lengthy, but well worth reading in my opinion, as it is quite informative and shows how common sense is non-existent when it comes to our governing bodies even in the face of contraindicating scientific evidence.  

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/weeklystandard/20110124/cm_weeklystandard/anothertriumphforthegreens

Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays with my 2010 Christmas/Holiday Wish and this video of my cousin Ciba and our friend Janey Age (Jana Hurdesova) singing a Czech Christmas carol written by Mirek Fisar (the father of another friend, Czech singer Radka Fisarova).  The video was dedicated to my father who had requested that Ciba and Jana sing the song his friend had written.

2010 Christmas/Holiday Wish

May this season

Of joy open all

hearts to peace, love

To see beyond

rampant greed, lust

inhumanity

To celebrate

instead our

commonality

And to cherish

diversity in

all humanity

© Alice Vedral Rivera 2010

Wired

Electro-magnetic

Energy captured

Transformed and transferred

Into on demand

Communication

Power and light

© Alice Vedral Rivera 2010

An example of the insanity gripping our nation:

http://biggovernment.com/dbroes/2010/10/22/union-fires-stage-hand-for-wearing-bush-hat-and-shirt/

I found this extremely entertaining as well as food for thought.

Andrew Klavan on the Culture

State Farm Final Resolution:

We received the paperwork for the settlement and it looks as if the $5,000 in medical that was paid out by our State Farm coverage will be reimbursed.   The only one that will still end up with the short end of the stick is our chiropractor as our medical insurance discounted quite a bit off of his charges (even though his charges were reasonable compared to the physical therapist’s charges in 2007).

As I told my husband, he should have been entitled to some more pain & suffering compensation, but he didn’t listen to me when I told him to seek help elsewhere sooner than he did and so it was a learning experience.  In addition, we are getting much better medical care from our new primary care doctor and hospital and that in itself makes up for it.    

If you are in a car accident, I still recommend hiring an attorney who will make sure that the proper 'paper trail' is documented and that the settlement is fair and equitable for all.  It is unfortunate that this is how the system is set up to work.