Stings and Signs of the Times

October 1, 2010

Foraging in the ‘garden’, Izzy-the-Wise and I are noticing lots of new items.

Even Izzy would not mistake the items for bugs, but I see the resemblance in some of the new items. Signs about folks with waspish stingers popping up in yards! I think about the stinging signs, Izzy thinks about, well, stinging insects!

Insects ‘demonstrate’ with Signs and Stings and we know some are benevolent and others are very harmful. We are happy, most of us, when we see a Monarch butterfly visiting. We flinch when we see a wasp approaching, we would rather they carry on their business out of our sphere. We are seeing yard signs that promote stingers. Who put those there? We are putting up signs, too. Our signs promote wisdom and good works like that of butterflies that pollinate and protect plants, feed wildlife.

Izzy and I value the balance of nature. We wouldn’t want to get rid of all wasps. They have a niche in our environment. Nevertheless, there are human versions of the wasp we could do well to avoid. We surely don’t want them to run our governments!

A human version of a Monarch might be a farmer, a botanist, a backyard gardener, a child planting her first bean in a paper cup, and folks who are concerned for us all.

Talking human wasps are spreading a venom that pollutes our airwaves, newspapers, and TV’s with distortions of fact, untruths, promotions of fear and war. They are a plague of locusts who will consume what is left of this great nation with their greed, teaching hate, and disregard for the well-being of the general population. They put on a charade of decency that the unaware absorb and accept because times are difficult, frightening and confusing. Being as angry as a stirred up wasp gives short term relief. The Big wasps know this and stir up the nest. No good will come of this. Human wasps are advertising their representatives’ candidacies paid by other more powerful wasp groups who don’t even live in the state. Their stingers are long and swift. Now, Big Money sends the stings to places they never have been able to go before! Watch out for their signs, knee-jerk slogans, and vicious stingers! Baking soda will not heal the wounds they inflict.

We must vote in just a few weeks. Will we choose the wasps who sting from afar and within? Instead, let’s choose the healthier more responsible individuals like Trish O’Neil, Tammy Baldwin,Tom Barrett, and Russ Feingold? They will promote stability, better schools, better health for all, better possibilities for jobs for you and I. They will not protect big businesses by permitting them to create fake addresses in Nevada so they can avoid paying their fair share of taxes in Wisconsin as is happening now. They will consider all their constituents even-handedly, thinking of the little guy as well as the big, and do what is best for us all? They will listen and work with their counterparts instead of fight and block progress. They are human versions of good nature.

Izzy and I look for the way to protect the little guy, but even the big guys if they have good practices. Join Izzy and I and choose the candidates mentioned by name.