Continuing Drama...

So I need a spell work, advice, prayer, meditation, something....life is so busy!



So I attended the La Vida homeschool charter school board meeting last night in the hopes of giving the school the new breath of fresh air it needed to survive and again, I, like many parents before me, was not taken seriously and nothing got done. At this point some of the parents and former staff are so outraged it's gone legal and I have no hopes for the school's survival so I'm feeling like I need to step aside for the moment because my being dramatic about everything doesn't help the situation or myself. So that's that.



In addition to that I'm battling Med-i-cal who has not payed medical bills from April they were suppose to pay. I'm filling out new paperwork and calling the collection company nearly everyday with updates in the hopes that if they see I'm trying to pay my bill they wont put it on my credit report. I can't have $3,000 worth of medical bill right now on my credit when we need to rent a new house by december. So in the meantime I'm juggling the billing at the hospital, the collection agency and social services. *sigh*



On the other front my student loans through Citibank were consolidated through the government loan consolidation program for student loans however Citibank is saying they never got the check from the Educational Department. So now I have two bills, one from Citibank and one from the Ed. Dept. saying I owe them both money this month! Citibank is calling nearly everyday and I'm like "Dudes, I don't freakin' have a loan with you anymore, I don't owe you money." Ugh.



When do I get time to homeschool, when do I get time to nurture, when do I get time to sit and read stories with all this drama? It has to end and it has to end now. I refuse to let the world as it is destroy my peace of mind. I want to step aside but sometimes it's hard to figure out just how to do that. I can't just let my credit go south and I can't not pay my student loan bills.



I hate credit. Boy how I wish I didn't have those student loans. College should be free in the this country, or very cheap, like Europe.



The prophets of the Mormon church have always advised their members not to go into debt except to buy maybe a house or go to school. I agree and I live this life principle but I still have debt that I can barely control - debt that the managment thereof is like a full time job.



I'm always looking for the root of issues, to stop then at their germination, not just to prune them once they've overgrown. What do you think is the root of all this?

Mennonite Man Hauled to Jail for Selling Raw Milk

The Criminalization of Raw Milk: A Mennonite Farmer is Hauled Away

* By LINN COHEN-COLE
Counterpunch, April 26 /27, 2008
Straight to the Source



On April 25, 2008, in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Mark Nolt, a Wenger Mennonite (Horse and Buggy Mennonite) dairyman, threatened for months with arrest for selling raw milk without a permit was removed from his property by state troopers.

Read full story here

..::Classic Mother, Lover, Goddess::..

Here's what I was reading last April

The Feminine Face of Poverty

By Riane Eisler, AlterNet. Posted April 19, 2007.

Seventy percent of those living in absolute poverty in our world -- that is starving or on the edge of starvation -- are female. Not only that, in our wealthy United States, women and children are the mass of the poor and the poorest of the poor.

Read the whole article at:

http://alternet.org/rights/50727/

Progressives are asking the wrong questions.....

I just stumbled upon this story. Apparently the actor Dennis Quaid and wife Kimberly recently had twin sons born in the hospital. The boys contracted a nasty hospital infection which required antibiotics and then, so that the antibiotics wouldn't cause blood clots, the small babes were given heparin, however they were accidentally given 100 times the safe does and nearly died.

The article I linked to asks the question, "How can the public hear such a story and still support laws capping damages at levels that undermine the injured patients' access to the justice system?"

Fair enough, I don't believe medical trail lawyers are the evil cretons they're made out to be by the media. I think people deserve compensation when gravely injured. However I would instead ask the question; how can the public hear such a story and still support routine hospital births?

Most mamas reading this are nodding their heads.

And that's what bugs me about the progressive movement is that, in my opinion, they ask the wrong questions.

Take universal heath care for example, which I support by the way, but it does my family, and families like ours zero good. We wont get insurance, universal or not, to cover our naturopath bills, our herbal and homeopathic costs, breastfeeding or homebirth support or natural dentistry. It would only cover us in the event of an emergency.

What good is it truly doing people to have universal health care when they rush off to a western medical "professional" for every sniffle? These same "professionals" who poison their babies and medically rape their bodies. All it does is keep billions of dollars square in the hands of the doctors who are causing most of the problems, whether that's giving antibiotics too often, icing swelling, casting small breaks, recommending horrible diets, or handing out anti-depressants like candy.

We shouldn't be demanding that everyone have access to a broken system, we need a new system.

That's my rant for the day :)

Burt's Bee's Goes Mainstream

According to Louise Story at the The New York Times, the company Burt's Bee's, made famous by their yummy, all natural, lip balms and lotion, as recently been bought by Clorox. Yep, that's Clorox as in BLEACH. Clorox plans to make Burt Bee's a mainstream product and one of their first goals - get Burt's into Wal-Mart.

Bummer, huh?