SOPA - See you in Hell Hollywood!!

My Grandpa always said this about gardening. You can't fight nature; plant enough for the bugs, the animals and the humans. So why is it that those we perceive to be in power are not nearly as wise or charitable as my sweet old Grandpa?

There is always going to be a percentage of the population who will pirate, you cannot stop it. The entertainment industry is not losing money due to pirating, because those are the type of people who will either pirate or do without it. You can't stop it, your rich as hell... get over it! Now, thanks to these whiny buttholes our Government has assumed the right to shut you down, shut you up and throw you in jail for anything they deem reasonable.

Well guess what Entertainment A-holes, you just lost another customer. I will now spend all of my entertainment money on only independent artists. I think instead of going to the movies tomorrow, I will go to the Pretty Lights website and donate the money to them.

I will cut off my own hand before I will use it to hand money over to you, making you even more rich and giving you even more weight to make our lives even more miserable.

Plus, I am sick of listening to your stupid lyrics anyway.

Cats will not eat where they poop or drink where they eat

My cute little kitty has been very sick the last couple of weeks and among other things I have been battling his dehydration. I had to resort to dropper feeding him water every hour to keep him hydrated. Since I was so worried and getting worn down by vet bills, I turned to the internet. Usually all I find with these searches are people either pushing the idea that our cats have some nasty disease or tearing us a new one for not going to the vet yet again.

In my search this time, I actually found someone who provided sound helpful advice and it was something I should have known after years of observing seemingly strange cat behavior. Have you noticed your cat prefers your cup, the toilet, the plant water, the bathtub water, the bird feeders or even the nasty gutter to the water in his bowl? It turns out, that cats instinctively don't like to drink water that is near their food source!

I immediately put bowls of water in every room of the house. It really REALLY worked! Now, around every half hour I hear little slurping noises and have to actually refill the bowls instead of just replacing it... and the litter boxes fill more quickly.

Cat Urine and carpet, not a good combination

Cat pee is the absolute worst of the worst smells. I have a lovely male Siamese who has been ill for the last couple of week. During this time my man has been complaining of a strange nasty smell. A couple of days ago I saw my kitty squat down and pee on the carpet right in front of me! This is $2000 worth of brand new carpet so, I got down on my hands and knees and sniffed all around the room. I found he had done his business in three spots on the stairs and of course right by my office chair.

In a panic, I got on the internet to find the answer. Everyone was raving about the enzyme based products, so I went to the pet store. I used an entire spray bottle on these four spots. I must say, it didn't even make a dent in the smell; I still gagged when I sniffed the carpet. I began to search for home remedies and found the mixture of peroxide, soap and baking soda. I tried this on one of the spots; it did work, but, left a white mess. Hey, I would take any day over cat pee!

Next I tried just peroxide and soap on the other spots, and found that it had actually worked just as well! It worked so well that I was able to detect faint traces around the original spot.

Here is exactly what I did:

Mixed a whole bottle of peroxide from the store with about a tablespoon of Dr. Bronner's peppermint soap, then I soaked a sponge with it and pressed it into the carpet over and over until it was well and thoroughly soaked. Then let it dry.

I think the pressing helped work the liquid down through the pad and onto the wood. Because, now I don't smell a thing, just smells like pepperminty clean carpet. I so hope this works for you too, because I soooo feel your pain.

Just to Clarify, you control the world!

Politicians and business people chanting "consumer spending, consumer spending", Facebook banning people for simply talking about Google Plus, governments destroying used cars in order to force us to buy new ones... How long will it take you to realized that you control the world with your pocketbook, the rich only got rich because you bought stuff from them.

The rulers only rule because you consent to it.

Imagine this, if you could get every person in the united states to give you one dollar today, tomorrow you would have $300 million.

Based on watching my mom shop, I would say the average Walmart bill is $100. If say 100 million people spend $100 per week, at the end of the week they have made $10 billion and I am sure the figures are much higher then that! I could be wrong, but it seems to me that if everyone in the US could agree to boycott Walmart for one week we could bring that monster of a company to it knees.

That is how much power we have

Now imagine this, Walmart has left your communities. You and your neighbors are now free to open up that bakery, clothing store, butcher shop, grocery store, sporting goods store, etc. that you always dreamed of. Now imagine in a years time $520 billion doesn't go over seas or into the pockets of the already rich; instead it moves into the pockets of your neighbors, who will in turn put it into your pocket.

You want your community to thrive? Start your own businesses, buy from each other and shop local!

Don't spend your money with at a company unless you can walk in and meet the owner.

Do the right thing... make facebook go the way of myspace!

Facebook is starting to suck, well... really it has for a long time. Not only is it slow and awkward, but they own everything you post and upload... they own your personal information! Now they have implemented a policy of sharing your personal information without your knowledge.

If you haven't already jumped on the bandwagon and gotten yourself a Gmail account, you should do so now and while you are at it activate your Google+ account. It's better then facebook, fast and it comes with video chat. Oh, did I mention that this could replace skype as well? I hope that soon the only thing facebook will be good for is link popularity.

Oh, and while you are at it...

Repeat after me:
"Friends don't let Friends use Internet Explorer"

Onion Juice for Alopecia... It Works!

I am sure if you suffer from alopecia, you have at least heard about this alternative treatment. I have the worst and most rare kind. A year ago I didn't even have hair in my nose. There are many things I have been doing that have impoved my situation, but since I have started using onion juice, now I don't have to look closely to see the new peach fuzz sprouting on my head; I have only been using the onion regularly for a few weeks.

I put an onion, I recently started adding garlic, in my juicer to extract the juice; I use an old crappy one I got at the thrift store. I keep it in the fridge for daily use, it seems to keep for several days; the garlic will turn the mixture blue green after a couple of days, it is still good.

Here is what I try to do every day.

I take a prenatal vitamin with food or juice; I use this kind, because this is what the doctor recommended when I was a teenager for my alopecia.

use a natural bristle nail brush and brush my scalp and eyebrows.

use a cotton ball to rub the onion/garlic juice all over my scalp and a tiny bit on my eyebrows; then I go do something else for at least half an hour.

I wash off what I can of the onion juice, then rinse with a bit of lemon juice; the lemon helps to get rid of most of the onion smell.

I mix in the palm of my hand equal parts sweet almond oil and vitamin E oil with a couple of drops of sage oil. My mom used to put straight E on my head when I was little and it was a goopy mess, the almond oil helps with this and the sage is supposed to be good for hair growth, plus it completely masks any lingering onion smell.

I massage this mixture into my scalp and eyebrows, I try to spend several minutes after just massaging my scalp and imagining myself with a full head of hair.

Who is the most awesome band ever. Pretty Lights!

My favorite group for so many reasons. They are awesome, they are AWESOME, their own record label, free music (you should be kind and donate). They used to just give it away, but I, and I am sure hundreds of others, emailed them begging for a donate button so we could send them something for their awesomeness; within a few days the music was still free, but there appeared a small donate via paypal button.

You can download their amazing music here.

Check them out

What is wrong with artists today

We have the internet and everyone is on it. They don't need stinkin' record companies. I saw in the news yesterday that congress on behalf of these vultures are trying to start prosecuting little kids for lip syncing to their favorite songs on youtube; how sick is that?

I read in the comments some musician whinging about how these kids are stealing his profits. I commented that perhaps if some funny kid did post one of his songs maybe I would have heard of him. Really if you have sold 20 million albums you have plenty of money, and why would you sue and put in jail someone for promoting you? It's just sick.