Whats wrong with America anyway?

While designed to prevent corruption, trusting them to be patriots first, the current elected members in govt morphed over time have become the ruling elite with self imposed expectations of continuing royal benefits for life in exchange for their corrupted incompetent rendition of fairly protecting and serving the people  of the USA .

Instead members of the Senate and Congress have established their own financial futures to protect and serve themselves for future generations, while the citizens of America trusted.

Now the stench of incompetency and corruption prevail while they are fleecing the flock of America with their false promises,  greed and rhetoric, dragging out their meetings finding ways to continual stall on how to rightly govern our country, enabling foreign interests as well as corporate to steer the nation towards bankruptcy enabling those to rise to power that are burdening the people of the USA and depriving citizens and former military the very rights and services they deserve and are taxed for.

This current government  is now operating as a financially blood sucking vampirical hierarchy, syphoning off the wealth of the people thru taxation and unconstitutional legal burdens,  to the point that our military members and citizens are suffering as a result.

They point the finger at the poor to take the spotlight off themselves to stir the discontent of the  people . The problem isn't the poor. The problem starts in our elected officials and their good ole boy club that has seized powers given them and abuse the system created by our forefathers for their own gain.

New politicians often idealistic and fresh are quickly brought to heel to play the game their way or be discredited and deposed swiftly so as to protect and serve the agenda now running this country. No benefits packages they voted for themselves should exceed those of the citizens they are supposed to serve.

They only rule to force the people to serve them and their greed as even with their puffed up bank accounts, expense accts, staff accounts , medical benefits and retirement packages they fail to do the jobs they were elected to do in the first place and have enabled a shadow government to rule our country while they continue on their merry way in Washington.

Their system and methods of ruling and the corruption of their financial political games have filtered down to state, city and local levels further contaminating and oppressing the citizens and former military members.

Instead of safeguarding our nation, they have created safeguards for themselves that have now fleeced the citizen flock to the extent that our nation is becoming more vulnerable to open take over and losing its status as  the #1 world leader.

Its time the citizens rise up, groom new leaders starting as children enter school, to instill patriotism and teaching them the laws and rights of  our nation set forth by our founding fathers. Its time to  stop imposing  agenda based  social issues meant to confuse and distract citizens from childhood upwards to become blinded to the world around them and to be self serving within the confines of the new world order of games and the inadequate diversionary education they receive. We are raising a nation of victims to be harvested  in the near future by those that in generations passed would have clearly been seen as our enemies, while other nations are gearing up training their children from youth upwards to obey and die for their governments agendas.

Other nations such as China, Russia, Germany, even Pakistan, the ruling classes of the Arab World and others are training their youth in ways once some considered deplorable that are enabling their ruling elite to rise to levels of untapped human power that is leading them into positions for possible future world dominance, a new world order that pretends to be the solution while really being both the cause and the cure and will not benefit mankind but those who manage to seize global power.

This is happening while our youth are born into broken families, training to become oblivious to what's going on around them, encouraged to become lazy, self absorbed and to simply play video games, eat junk foods that weakens their minds and bodies and to take what they want by coercion and other means, even to break laws and burst into violence against one another, liked hungry caged puppies, so they will accept the scraps offered them by government or organized crime seeing little difference in either while seeing both as possible parental figures or saviors, when they are neither.

Our national youth are being groomed in all classes, to believe they have no future and are not even being taught how to positively work to survive to ensure their own futures, to respect life and their liberties or to even effectively protect their own family units as they sell off their children into national debt to foreign powers.

Families have been under attack for many years. Strategically, legalized abortion has murdered off millions of potentially patriotic future citizens from ever having a voice in government, furthering the degeneration of the family unit,  while those born are being raised by single parents mostly overburdened financially to the point that they have to rely  on the 'system' that is currently in place,  to instill whatever core values our children are growing up with, like little packs of dogs, molding them into a pliable work force to serve the agendas of those who are rising to power.

Our culture has been leaning more and more towards a leftist mask of 'liberalized' govt dependencies leading to socialism and less and less of what used to be considered the American dream of self sufficiency and national pride that led the world and aspired many other nations to emulate us, who now want to destroy us and are effectively doing so.

Many other nations who once respected the USA, later envied us , now come into our nation, both legally and illegally using our now muddied liberalized misinterpretations of our national laws against us, to destroy what America one was.

Our children are growing up not embracing the values of the freedoms they were born with by the sacrifices of the previous generations who fought to provide them that enabled them to have what they have today, instead now are turning them more towards rebelling against what is left of the current damaged system, as over taxation is robbing them of their futures.

This is all part of the bigger plan so that from what is left of this broken system which previously protected and preserved the citizens of our nation.  It is now being continually challenged and weakened so those once outside can now destroy our nation from within.

The media has gained the strongest position of influence over the entertaiment oriented generation that now exists.

Our rights are continually being stripped away as each new generation comes of age and is blinded to the overall ramifications of its effects on future generations.

They are being trained from youth to not even want to see or participate in any reforms that could ultimately benefit them and our nation as a whole, but rather take the crumbs offered as a  bribe such as a student loan or welfare package, to shut them up, while the bulk of the wealth and power within the govt is being taken over by those who actually hate what our nation is supposed to stand for.  Wake up America~!

When we see what our military personnel and former personnel are now being deprived while politicians can serve even one term and receive benefits for life, its time for 'change' and time to call the citizenry to action. Its time to participate rather than ignore.

It time to have our voices heard and to put term limits on benefits that politicians can have and not elect them into becoming royal elite which is the real financial back breaker of our nation.

People must start getting involved with what's going on and can't continue to ignore the changes taking place in our nation and in the world. We can no longer expect to rely on others to protect our God given rights! If we choose to ignore them, we will lose them and may not even realize it til they are violated and by then it may be too late to save us.

We must begin somewhere and it seems obvious it has to be in preserving our military and former military members benefits for their service to our nation. Then we have to begin to pay attention to the undermining of our government by incompetence and corruption at all levels. One level cant be excused by another level. All corruption has to be attacked  head on and not just the paper tigers they toss out at as like bones to a dog but to look deeper and bring justice back to America at all levels.

The Constitution has to be the basis and the protection we go by and anyone attacking our Constitution has to be stopped no matter what type of scheme they present to challenge it, as there will always be schemers out there in a free society seeking to seize power and fortune.

Removing the temptation to participate in the current form of corrupted government  would involve many things, such as carefully monitored elections but more so to remove the incentive for corrupted individuals from seeking election.That is all who seek to serve must first of all be able to prove it is out of love of country and not love of self or other self serving satisfaction as vain glory or greed. Elected officials should be known to their constituents, all of them, and be above reproach. We can not allow those with secret backing and financial where with all become those who govern over us.

We have to impose more checks and balances, in line with the ones our founding fathers had intended and not the loopholes the leftists have deceived us with. People need to participate in town meetings and learn about what's going on not only locally but at every level.No longer can we keep our collective heads in the sand as those who would take our freedoms are at work diligently plotting to destroy our now vulnerable form of government.

All newly proposed laws should be put to the vote.All pay increases to politicians should be subject to review and approval on an annual basis and be lowered when the economy is lower and should only be raised at levels in line with the national average on all employment benefits. The ruling elite are the least in need of additional benefits while the citizens suffer along with the poor who are often to blame  for taxation.

Citizens should decide who gets our foreign aid and who doesn't and all policies should have referendums that require the majority of the citizens to approve and when there is not enough interest those plans should not be implemented as they often are during absentee balloting and when  our elected officials are not present . There has to be stronger guidelines imposed to protect from the legal loopholes that ultimately undermine our way of life.

To start, lets give our military and military retirees and their dependents what they are entitled to before we go borrowing from other nations to hand it all back out in the form of foreign aid. lets have more accountability and place stronger stipulations on the use of such monies to ensure they are going for humanitarian and democratic agendas and not fueling foreign wars and other corrupt governments.

Lets also stop placing class blame on the paper tigers put out there by the media from the corrupt politicians, which point to blame the poor for what those rich in their political power positions are now doing.

Are They Trying to Kill US All?

Are They Trying to Kill US All?

ArtRave's New Super Center prints over 800 items from art or photos~! Buy or Make Your own~!

GO TO http://Art2Do.com

ArtRave has bee promoting artists for years including the PODs [print-on-demand] sites these artists belong to and have stores/shops at.

You can find so many beuatiful and unique customizable items for gift giving, home making, office and family items.  You can choose from the many artists associated with ArtRave or you can upload your own special pictures and create works of art for your family and friends.

ArtRave tests all products and those listed as samples are actually made of the artworks done by me, Ave Hurley, so this is a new way for you to collect my artwork at discounted prices!

For years I wanted to find a way to help emerging artists online to be able to better promote and sell their art and the biggest issue was base prices of the PODs along with pirating of art in which some of these PODs  'accidentally' selll our art and forget to tell us~! [ like ArtWanted.com did to me~]This has happened to me personally as well as when PODs change or upgrade their systems,  I find it curious that seem  to manage to  bump our roaylty commission bases back down to 10% or less and while we may think an item will sell  giving us our deserved 33% we find after a sale our commission may be under 5%  { true story as with Cafe Press and all my recent sales ]

PODs are interested in selling their products regardless to whose art is on it and feel they just can pay us a penny and be in the clear about profiting from our work~!

This seems to be a growing trend, as one POD gets away with it then then next one does similarly and before we know it we are waiting years to receive any money from our art~!

Many have now upped their payout minimums so you can not collect your royalty til you reach $100 which might not seem like alot until you realize they are only paying you  between 5-10% meaning more than $500  of products have to be sold with your art before you see a penny~! Could be a lifetime for some~

Since this is a growing problem, I have set out to find a manufacturer to deal with that will allow the artist their due and not rip them off and I now own a distributor site called

Formerly called www.ArtRAveSuperCenter.com and now easier to remember as http://Art2Do.com is  where I offer printable products including some of my own art and a do it yourself print service at manufacturer's cost, saving artists and other clients alot of money on printing.

My only rule is that all art is family friendly and suitable for all viewing audiences and ages, since we all know by going online that nearly every site out there has less than suitable adult content and so we vie for the market of those not wanting to expose themselves or their children to such adult themes.

We dont allow any form of nudity, no matter how arguably artistic, no partial nudity, nothing violent or socially controversial, nothing negative. Our artists know that we are catering to a moral majority  or conservative audience, which makes us smaller perhaps, but more exclusive as well.

You can come  and browse through my art products, my artists store lists to see their art products and you can browse through the do it yourself projects and use our online editing to help make your project complete.  You can even post it for sale  if you like with or without opening a store.

So I invite you to check out the Art2Do.com.  I am fairly certain, you will be glad you did :) Ave

Snowbridge - Ave Hurley Full Print Apron - StumbleUpon

Snowbridge - Ave Hurley Full Print Apron - StumbleUpon

ArtRave's Featured Artists Presentation with music sung by Gene Cosgrifff

Here my dad sing along for my art presentation~

Marines of Company K 1917-18 - full movie

Happy Memorial Day 2013

2013 - Wow - Not only is time speeding by since 2000 - this year is also speeding by~! Over the winter I became involved with streamlining my www.ArtRave.com site and then went into straightening up my Zazzle site and opened several new stores, based on products and subjects. No sooner did I get them somewhat set up and automated I came across a print all manufacturing site that enabled me to open up the new www.ArtRaveSuperCenter.com where the setup seems nearly endless along with all the possibilities it possesses. Each picture potentially can create over 700 products so creating the virtual products became a job in itself and soon I was working round the clock til the first few thousand products were made.It was an education in itself as there was alot of editing and once done, sorting and organizing into a way to present each item for sale was another lengthy ongoing process. I opened the site to my fellow artists, initially enabling stores for each but as each joined there was confusion and different levels of virtual manufacturing issues that made it to where only a few fellow artists continued on with me in their own store development. This also became an issue of time for each of us as each store was all time consuming. I found I was working all 3 stores and only inching myself along in progress. It became exhausting although at the time I also opened 17 Facebook Pages and Groups to enable advertising of the products not only for my new store but for all my previous and still open stores on Zazzle, RedBubble, Imagekind, CafePress, Fine ArtAmerica, ArtWanted and a few more. That involved updating the salesgroups on my main www.ArtRave.com site as well and helping new members that have been coming over from Facebook to get them started on ArtRave. The purpose for all of this was to cross promote and provide avenues for artists to present and sell their own art at their sites and to drive traffic to their art as well as to my own. This has been working well and alot is semi-automatic now as we all display on Facebook, ArtRave, Pinterest and various blogsites. Meanwhile as the year is speeding by, my health has deteriorated somewhat and I have had to take a few breaks as I was hospitalized and didnt have internet access, so found myself hurrying my doctors along to let me go home as fast as possible so while in recovery I could get online and continue this quest to promote decency in art online. Valentine's Day and Easter came and went fast as did Mother's Day and then I began to slow down and take it a bit easier watching more newsites and movies online.Seems after the presidential elections, I lost interest in much of the news outside the top stories of Benghazi still being covered up, the aftermath of the Connecticut shootings, the fiscal cliff our nation has been teetering on the edge of, the Washinton politics and both Congress & Senate not being able to reign in the king, or rather the President and his cronies, er I mean cabinet.... so disheartening all the recent news that it really has put a damper on my creativity as an artist. One of the few things that can still make me proud of our nation is our nations military personel and how despite the lousy leadership that yield to, still so their best to protect and serve our country. Then, too are those in the capacity of being volunteers in the many organizations that still strive to help those in need. When catastrophies such as the natural disasters we have been experiencing across the land over the passed several years seem to be continually upon us, those brave selfless individuals are out there helping people to recover parts of their lives after losing everything that they had - loved ones, homes, businesses their health and more. Reflecting back over recent years as 9-11 is now 12 yrs passed and 9-11 #2 Benghazi has still been left unresolved due to the conspiracy in Washington that most will speak out against but little seems to be done about it as it appears we now already have a shadow government ruling and a superficial shallow, arrogant, defiant group of government officials that do as they please and apparently are getting away with it all. Good military leaders have been systematically replaced for infractions in their personal lives that often would have been overlooked in the past as long as they continued to lead their personel in protecting our nation and our national interests. Purposes are muddied by so many under the counter agendas that we see only the tip of the icebergs as our nation's #1 position in the world is slipping away being neutralized, becoming more vulnerable to those we needed to defend ourselves against in decades passed. This Memorial Day, I stop and reflect and honor those who gave their lives to keep our nation strong and free but I also lament that those in charge of our nation are now the ones who have placed us all in harms way and are cultivating a new norm in society, one that will blindly surrender to the emerging tyranny at hand as those we placed in charge are now drawing the lines in the sand and preparing to turn segments of our govt and military against its own citizens and those who were from other countries who have come here illegally are now being lumped together with both decent and indecent, allowing in those who would become terrorists here like sleeper agents awaiting orders , as well as those who came only to escape the tyranny in poverty of their homelands.Those are the ones we can pity and embrace - the ones who want to make America their new homeland, while the others slip through and are being given rights to enable them to follow their agendas of making America week so their former homelands can come in and conquer us all. Some who see it warn everyone but are not being heard. Some care but some dont. More so, defeat was when the last presidential election was over. That election proved that our votes do not count, as the shadow govt is already in charge and those we have trusted to lead us are part of those who are subjugating us to higher taxes and loss of civil rights and changing the American mindset to either give into the 'change' or live in fear and become possible targets of retaliation such as those being investigated wrongly by the IRS. So many things have happened, Benghazi being one blatant example of how expendible we as individuals are to the cause of this evil takeover that is tranforming our formerly great nation into one of shame and degradation. Intiially I thought when the election was over, that all we need to do is hunker down and hang on for 4 yrs and then worry about rebuilding what was left. Now I wonder if we can , as a nation, survive til the next election and be able to restore whatever is damaged from this point on. I dont feel confident that we can as I see increasing violence in the news , particularly children being targetted - so that the govt's hidden agenda to disarm its citizens - can become a sad reality. That not being the only level we are all being affected by but then there is the programs the govt has been working at for decades in ways to changed the weather and whether they did it or not, our weather has changed over the last several years and more people have been dying from weather related disasters such as Sandy and Moore~ Memorial Day - a day of reflection and to honor our nations heroes past & present. This we do and azre still allowed to do.. But a new threat emerges within the ranks of our own military. Former generals have been replaced and new ones appointed that fit the new change or agenda which includes making it illegal for those in the military to be able to freely exercise their freedom of religion rights~!! They are trying to make it illegal for even a chaplain to witness or try to convert anyone in the military - they can face punishments that could include jail time or dishonorable discharges or both!! Most Memorial Days of the past included faith and religion which was used to comfort those who mourned the losses of their fallen heroes.More so , it was men of good conscience, trying to defend religious freedom and all our rights that would voluntarily join the military to fight to defend our rights, which are now in peril of being taken away from them as they defend our nation. The media controls the majority of the people and now the shadow government controls the media as well as most of the puppets they placed in high level positions of power within the govt, apparently all the way up to the top and the system of checks and balances is being tipped and sidestepped, even ignored. Some say we are heading for another civil war. Others say we have already lost. Our last few generations have been raised spoiled and self indulgent so that while our kids are hypnotized by video games, kids of other nations are being pushed hard to learn and trained to be conquerors. We will see more war, but I fear its coming to our land, first from the enemy within that is already here and then once subdued as much as possible, our enemies from beyond our borders will land and finish the conquest and no elections to be held will be able to undo the damage or return the freedoms we have by then will have lost. So I sit here and my daily anxiety increases, as I may not see many or all of these changes come to fruition, my children and grandchildren will have to endure the changes to their future. Today is Memorial Day. It is my hope and prayer that many, most in fact, are taking stock in their thoughts and remembering those who fought so hard to give us the very freedom that is now so easily being taken away from us as we sit by, there are those who can do something about it and there are those who can help them to do it.