Hypocricy And Self Servitude At Its Finest

Thank you, Lord, for sending those people to kill those four Americans in Libya. While I'm thinking about it, thank you for sending us those murderers who killed 3000 innocent people 11 years ago, and thank you so much for orchestrating the millions of deaths that all those people had to endure in all those senseless wars in the history of the world. Also, thank you for allowing the thousands of people, including men, women, and children, just yesterday across the planet, to die horrible deaths from disease, starvation, car accidents, and violence. Thank you, almighty God, for all the freaks of the world who are molesting little boys and girls as I write this, ruining the lives of these innocent little people. And last but not least, let's all thank God for half the football fans this past Monday, who lost their football games, whose teams did not pray hard enough to get what they wanted.

Most will see this as mocking and ridiculing, and probably blasphemous. For me, what's blashpemous is the constant denial of reality, the defending and excusing of evil and evil people. I detest all those clever cliches that are designed to keep us quiet, to keep us thinking that we should be thankful for all the abuses that the evil people of the world are forcing onto us, and/or to keep us looking at all the "good" things, while ignoring the bad. This continues to work very well for such people - the parasites of the world.

So, for those of you who see Monday Night Football and your Budweiser as being the most important part of your life, go back to what you were doing, and just let this crap continue. And, for those of you who mindlessly enjoy your daily bible thumping sessions, get right back on that, because it's worked so well all throughout history in solving the problems of the world.

On The Wrong End Of "isms"...

After two years of being mostly out of work, I’m beginning to wonder if I may have reached the point in time where I’m just too old to be doing this music thing.  I watch some of the modern acts on TV, and I hear them whenever I’m within earshot of a jukebox or radio.  My observation is that everything is geared towards the youngsters – most department stores, most coffee shops, most clothing stores, most bars and restaurants, and, my main point – music.  I just heard back from an agent who books cruise ships.  I communicated with him a couple of times, told him what I did, and what I didn’t do – basically that I don’t do anything that was recorded after about 1985.  I also told him why – one, that in all my years of being in the business, I never got any requests for any of it, and two, every bone in my body says it’s not for me.  He informed me that anybody they hire for those cruise ships will need to know lots of the modern pop music.  One of the things I thought, was that most who go on those cruises are 40 and over.  In fact, in my experience, the only ones who ever tried to dictate what bands and solos play are the management, entertainment directors, and booking agents – these are people who claim to know what people want, but in reality, they are the least informed, and the most egotistical.  Ever how twisted and stupid it is, this is the way of the world, and me, being one little nobody, I really have no control over it, I don’t make the rules, I just have to live by them.  Oh yeah, and I will never sell out, I will never be a contrived, phony, money mongering whore.  Don’t get me wrong, I still make music, because it’s who I am, but I guess at this point, I don’t have a lot of faith that anything will ever happen for me in this horribly corrupt business that is so full of “isms”, and so full of corruption.

I continue to watch the world, the human race, swirl down the proverbial (and metaphorical) toilet – in just about every way – morally, economically, care and/or compassion for other people; everything is about me, as in, “What do I get out of this, how does anything and everything I do benefit me?”.  My dad said shortly before he died, “I’m glad my life is almost over”, and I guess I feel the same.

Irony, Inconsistency, And Other Assorted Bullshit...

 

      Me back in 1981                                                 Me today, 2014

A few years ago, I saw this video – it’s Joshua Bell, world class violinist, playing in a subway station:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyrS0GZdFps .  What I gathered from it was that most people will not recognize real talent, real art, or much of any real anything – without the expensive hype that is used to trick people into buying something that they otherwise wouldn’t, and most of the time, wouldn’t need.  Albert Einstein also pointed this out when he said, “Few are those who see with their own eyes, and feel with their own hearts”.  It’s very sad that this is what humans have devolved into.  I’ve been in art galleries, where there would be things hanging on the wall that made no sense to me, didn’t look like anything, and didn’t incite any emotion of any kind – with price tags of thousands of dollars.  On the other hand, I’ve been to sidewalk art shows, and “Art In The Park” shows – where some of the art there was out of this world – of things we would all recognize, things that struck a nerve, or a heartstring – for most people – with price tags of ten and twenty bucks.  I’ve seen street performers, as well as guys who only play in their back yard for their own enjoyment, who could play and sing circles around most mainstream “Artists” with very little effort.

I’m not familiar with how the rest of the art world works, but I do, from firsthand experience, know a few things about the music business.  Sometime in the 90s, I went to a “Songwriters’ Seminar” somewhere in the Virginia/DC area.  The main speaker was a guy named Gary McCarty – he was some big time program director for one of the major FM radio stations on the east coast.  After he presented his spiel, they passed the mic around for Q & A.  When it was my turn, I presented Mr. McCarty with this, “Mr. McCarty, since radio requests and record sales no longer have anything to do with what is #1, #2, and #10, can you tell us what does?”.  Well, he danced around, did the jig, hemmed, hawed, double talked, and stammered for a good five minutes, and never did answer my question.  You see, this is just another glaring example of how the mainstream music business is not straight up – it makes up its own rules as they go, making said rules to profit, profit, and profit some more.  Here’s another little story:  Sometime in the early 80s, I contacted a booking agent who worked out of Montana – he booked a circuit in the California/Oregon/Washington/Idaho/Utah/Colorado/Arizona/New Mexico area.  In those days, there were what was known as “A Rooms”, and “B Rooms” – the A rooms being the nice, upscale places, while the B rooms were more of the smaller dance halls and bars.  Of course, the good bands worked the A rooms, and the lesser quality bands worked the B rooms – as it should be.  Anyway, I presented my spiel to this agent.  He asked at one point, “What kind of country music do you do?”.  I replied, “Traditional country, Outlaw Country – the old stuff”.  He said, nobody wants to hear that, you need to be commercial and contemporary, there is only one band that does that, and they only get away with it because they’ve built such a monster following…”.  I guess he wasn’t thinking, but damn, he spelled it right out – the one band had a monster following – why, because of magic?  NO, it was because if done well, the people like that old stuff.

Here’s still another story:  I was listening to a local talk show, when the guest speaker was a guy who owned one of the major record labels in Hawaii – the guy’s name was John DeMello, of Mountain Apple Records.  I called in, and amazingly I got through.  I asked, “Do you guys actually look for new artists or bands?”.  He replied, “Yes, of course we do, we are always looking for new talent”.  I replied, “Well, I sent you a CD, and a couple weeks later you sent it back with the nice little form letter, saying something about how you loved the CD, but were unable to take on any new artists, the CD STILL IN THE CELLOPHANE WRAPPER”.  He started on a rant, which is where my main point is – he said, “What you musicians don’t understand is that most of the artists and bands we sign never even recover the money we spend on putting out their CD, and promoting them”.  You see, another one who wasn’t thinking when he opened his mouth.  The bad thing is that all of the major record labels have this horrible habit of signing the copycat artists and bands – ones who mimic everything that comes out on the radio – stating, “You GOT to be commercial”, and other such horseshit.  They never look for anything different, fresh, or unique; AND, when something does by some fluke, slip through the cracks, even though they fought it tooth and nail before the fact, they would then jump on the bandwagon, claiming they supported it the whole time – and then proceed to look for “Artists” and bands who are now mimicking the new sound.  This has been the MO since the early 80s – at least in the country music side of things.

Not sure if the masses are aware of this fact, but Billboard Magazine is who dictates what goes on on the radio (#1, #2, and #10), who gets signed, who gets promoted, and even who wins the “Awards”.  It’s known as radio’s “Bible”.  Mainstream radio and the major record labels are a very exclusive and iron clad Good Ol’ Boy network.  One other little fact, my dad worked in radio from the late 50s till the early 80s, and one of the things he told me was that any unsolicited music that arrived at the front desk either through the mail or hand delivered, was to be thrown straight into the trash.


I often wonder where the laws against monopoly are, and the conflict of interest laws that state it’s against the law to own a radio station and a record label – being that it’s common knowledge that it’s all the same people who own the whole conglomeration.  I’ve said this before, but here it is again – I’ve seen quite a few documentaries where the record biz people are screaming and whining about the dismal “Unit” sales – blaming piracy and free downloading for their own ineptitude and all their “isms” (Nepotism, buddyism, cronyism, etc.).  Meanwhile, the publicist side of the biz continues to spread their lies – lies disguised as advertising, using every psychological trick in the book to sell, sell, sell.  To add injury to insult, the only place you can hear the old classic music is on obscure stations that don’t get advertised, and are mostly pushed back into the wash of nothing.  It’s easy for record labels to find mediocre “Artists” and bands, and easy to crank out mediocre songs, as opposed to finding artists and bands that have any real talent and ability, and songs that are worth something.

Of the national country acts, I’ve yet to see one who can hit more than about 2/3rds of the notes – and that’s on a good day, and there are two guys out there now who can actually play their guitars – the rest – they don’t even meet the basics – can’t hit most of the notes they try to sing, and the guitars are nothing more than props.  Oh, and the worst part – they are SO desperate to be “Cool”, with their fake southern accents, their silly cowboy hats, and their ridiculous “Moves”.  Elvis didn’t have a choreographer, and I never saw him trying to be “Cool”, same goes for Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Tammy Wynette, Loretta Lynn, Dolly, George Jones, or just about any of the old timers.  But, just about every one of ‘em that appeared after about 1985 – they look ridiculous, and can't sing or play.  Even more disgusting is the way the youngsters eat it up – doing so as a result of all the psychological games that these corporate giants use to sell their inferior products.

As for me, I’ve been trying, for almost two years, to get agents to take just a few minutes to watch my demo videos (one click), and so far, not a single one has even had the decency to acknowledge me.  I’ve contacted agents and entertainment directors here in Reno, and I’ve contacted agents who book national and regional tours – for both major and minor acts, and again, not a single one has gotten back to me one way or another.  For the record, if I should get on a tour, or any of my songs get major airplay, and if I get the same hype that any of the other major artists get, and the people don’t care for it, I can live with that, but I don’t do so well with being ignored and squashed – which has been the case now since the mid 80s.  Here is the link to my YouTube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/user/Ikaika1955 .  If any of you reading this should want to take a look at the guy who is writing this stuff (that’s me), please feel free, and please don’t hesitate to comment either here or at YouTube, or both.

One last point.  If there were a bunch of great artists out there, making great music, I wouldn't be saying any of these things, and I wouldn't feel so bad about being ignored and squashed.  But, that's not the case, as I've said more times than I can count, the calibre of most artists is horrid, they have no substance, no talent, no real ability, and would have no appeal if not for the expensive but deceptive hype that is employed by the major record labels.

Thanks for taking the time to read my rant.  Oh, and you can find me here:  http://thefidmusic.com/ .

They Still Won't Face Me...

 

If I could, I would move here in a red hot second, leave technology, crowds, pollution, noise, and people's bullshit as far behind me as I possibly could.

Well, here we go again – or should I say still.  I just recently discovered that both Google and YouTube – not coincidentally owned by the same people – have buried everything to do with me – my videos, my website, my blog, Facebook account, Twitter account.  Just to compare, I googled a few people that I knew – old acquaintances, musicians I met over the years – it was very easy to find them – their websites, articles, and whatever else.  If you type my name, along with any term – guitar, ukulele, music, lap steel guitar, anything, there will be no listings for me.  A couple of searches will take you, though, to a Facebook page that has listings of any person or company that contains the name you’re searching for, but that’s Facebook’s site, not relative to any particular person, and Google cannot very well bury Facebook’s listings page.  Now, I went to Bing, and found me very easily – just as I did with all the other people I searched for on Google.  They left me a few crumbs, though, there were a couple of times when I found a listing for one of my CD listings on CD Baby – on page 4, 5, or so – maybe they did that for a reason, or maybe they’re just not aware of those, don’t know.

Ok, now for YouTube.  Back around 2006, 07, and 08, I was fairly active on political and social issues on YouTube.  After a few months I seemed to have been accepted by what appeared to be an elite group of activists who were saying much the same as I was.  We were, of course, all labeled as “Anti-semites”.  Most of us were not particularly against Jewish people, but as with certain groups, if you question or point out their wrongdoings, they will accuse you of being racist, bigoted, and whatever else – nothing more than cheap tactics employed by cowardly people whose sole intent is to shut any person up who they do not agree with, or whose beliefs they don’t approve of.  For the record, I don’t give a rat’s behind what color, race, ethnic background, or country you belong to, I treat everybody the same – with respect and kindness unless given a reason not to.  After the whole “Anti-semite” farce, I had 2 or 3 of my YouTube channels shut down.  There was also the fact that for two years or so, somebody at YouTube was manually blocking my comments.  I’d be in a debate with some smartass who was trying to shut me up – calling me filthy names, accusing me of this and that, when after a few exchanges, my comments would freeze, and not post.  Funny though, if I would post something not relevant to the debate, it would go through just fine.  It was during that time that I picked up a couple of stalkers – they were relentless, they dug up things about me, they knew my son’s name, found other comments at YouTube that were totally apart from any of the political and social stuff – and made from an account other than the one I used for the political and social stuff.  Somebody suggested that they may have been paid to stalk me like that.  Add to that, Google buried my photography website – it went from page one (of listings) to I don’t even know – I never did find it by searching – the only way was to link to it, or type the address in the address bar.  It went from page one to oblivion in a matter of less than week.  So, fast forward to a few days ago, I typed my name in YouTube’s search bar, and lo and behold, none of my videos would show up – even as far as page 20 or so.  I did find it a little strange that my videos were getting 1, 2, 10, and 15 views over a year, two or three – which is why I finally thought to google me, and look for me at YouTube.  Before all my political and social activism, there were a couple of my videos that had over 10,000 views in a relatively short period of time.

Well, this, along with some other sneaky, underhanded things that go on around here, has made it beyond obvious that somebody, a group of sombebodies, or more than one group of somebodies, is afraid of me, or threatened by me – maybe for my political and social views, and how effective they saw me as being back when I was active.  It could be that they’re afraid that if I were to ever gain a bigger platform to speak from, that I would be some kind of threat.  It could also be that they just want to punish me for saying things they don’t like or approve of.

I really don’t have answers, and this stuff goes on all day, every day.  One thing for sure, something is rotten in Denmark.

A Compilation Of Some Of My Tweets

I miss the TV repairman, the appliance repairman, the seamstress, the vacuum cleaner repairman, the cobbler, the tailor, the local furniture maker, the local machine shop, the local car repair shop, local restaurants where you can get real home cooked meals, the local coffee shop, the mom & pop hardware store. Thanks to the fact that Capitalism has morphed into Monopolism, these true small businesses are gone forever in America as we know it. In their place are money mongering, blood thirsty parasites who have no problem screwing their customers as well as their workers. But, we must all be thankful, focus on the good, ignore the bad, so that we can all be good little American citizens, and an endless source of revenue for the rich and the ruthless.

Great philosophers have changed the world by influencing people with their words, yet there are still those who find it hip & cool to parrot such horseshit as "You cannot change what other people do". Does nobody see the gross stupidity in parroting without thinking? That's not to mention the damage done by taking this stuff outside of its full context. "There is no god who would allow your bullshit to be in his world". "There is no god". "Who would allow your bullshit to be in his world".  Context, context, context. Again I ask, what the hell do I know O_O ?

"You always look for the good in people, there, there's not much to find".
Leroy Jethro Gibbs.
Boy did he ever get THAT right.

Many shining spirits have been broken by vindictive mediocre minds. It's the way of the world. A shining spirit is not something you're born with, it's something you build. The small minded & the devoid of character will always see a shining spirit as a nuisance & a threat, & will seek to destroy it. Most people don't care to be a shining spirit, they would rather be small minded, mediocre, and vindictive.

Money is not the root of all evil, people are.

My cat has more fucking sense than you do. This goes for about 95% of the population.

The degree of your insomnia is directly proportional to your degree of dishonesty, & this includes denial, pretentiousness, & bullying.

Eh dumbasses, quit screwing with nature, it won't work out well for anybody, especially not you,

The Powers That Be would love to portray me as the sociopath, while they continue to destroy millions of lives. Funny how that works.

So autism is now an epidemic. Well, DUH. I believe the number of cases is directly proportional to the ever increasing amount of chemical SHIT that is put in our food. And autism ain't the half of it BTW, the TV show talking about this gave every reason except the glaring one.

Had to say this in my internet life AND my non internet life: Trying to "make it", getting your music heard by the masses, booking shows entering contests, making connections, getting people to listen - not like going to Pizza Hut & ordering a fuckin' pizza. It's honing your.. craft & abilities, hard work, taking risks, doing without lots of things, having the right attitude, putting up with endless bullshit... being belittled, mocked, ridiculed, and otherwise bullied, chasing all over the world to try to find the right place to be, and by far the worst part - LUCK, dreaded, horribly unfair, horribly biased towards the sneaky & the cowardly - goddam stinking LUCK. So, all of you who have names for me, who judge me, point fingers at me, bully me, belittle me, what do you do when the person on the receiving end of your... crap finally "makes it"? Oh yeah, you fucking pretend you were on his team supporting him the whole goddam time. FTR, throwing him a bone now & then does not entitle you to screw with him. Also also, this is not directed at any one person, I have a list ten miles long.

Never underestimate the fragility & desperation of the human ego.

Big difference between wearing your own shortcomings, and feeling bad about yourself. It's become apparent that most people don't know the difference.

You hipsters who think of cool to use British grammar, go suck an egg.  BTW it's not the Brits' fault, it's the pitiful American dimwits who are so desperate to be cool and hip. READ THIS:  The harder you try, the dumber you look.

Been out of work for a while, but so have lots of other people - from plumbers to lawyers - through no fault of their own.

Greed has destroyed every empire in the history of the world.  What the hell makes anybody think this one is any different?

Most people think that playing music as a job is a joke, that it's like sitting in my room playing with GI Joes.  It's not the same, people

According to statistics I've seen, there is not a single "Charity" that sends more than TWO PERCENT of the donations to the actual cause the starving and dying people, abused and abandoned animals. In all cases, some rich pieces of dirt are keeping all that money for themselves.

There are people who believe that if you feed a wild animal, that it won't be able to feed itself.  HUH? So, if we feed them once in a while, their genes just magically jump out of their bodies, and they no longer know how to get food?  Animals are injured and abandoned, rescued by humans, kept in captivity, fed, housed, and whatever else, for months, & even years, get back out into the wild and do just fine.  This is just more of the same - pretentious numbskulls who will Polly Want A Cracker anything they hear, without knowing what the hell they're talking about; no research, no facts, just spitting up any BS they hear so they can have the illusion that other people think they're smart.

National Security, my ass.  It's a nice hiding place for the rich and the ruthless, but it's 100% pure BULLSHIT.

When you cheat, and when you bully, you're doing nothing more than admitting that you are inferior to whoever or whatever is in front of you.  Jealousy, envy, gloating, bullying & cheating are all code for "I'm as sniveling and pathetic as any person could possibly be".

I have to wonder why nobody has done any real investigating on chemtrails. Those planes have to take off and land SOMEWHERE. Or, maybe some have, and they're swimming with the fishes.  I suspect the latter.

If I don't have certain abilities, or I'm not willing to work hard & get good at something, then neither should anybody else.  So, if I cross paths with any of you son of a bitches who do these things, I will do ANYTHING to take you down. Famous last words of the lazy, the inept, the stupid, & the vindictive.

There were some civilizations that didn't have money, prisons, thieves, or any government.  Nobody starved, nobody was allowed greed.  I vote to bring back that kind of community.  My guess is that there were a hell of a lot fewer, if any, angry, vindictive, envious people in.. such civilizations. Fact is that we're stuck with this asinine money based society, and the result is that people will continue to steal manipulate, control, and murder each other. AND, most people think it's working, and is perfectly ok. I say again, what a f'n joke.

Boy meets girl, boy marries girl, boy "provides" for girl, then beats the crap out of girl once a week.  Which defines the guy, and which defines the relationship?  And there are some who think that the girl should be f'n thankful.  This is because society is based on the almighty but life destroying dollar. What a joke.

More to come later.

As Usual, I Lost

I’ve been on the receiving end of bullies from fucking hell since 2006.  That's not something I'm cryng about, it's just a reality - as a result of things I had absolutely nothing to do with.  It amazes me how sadistic and vindictive so many people can be – especially when they have the upper hand.  You know what’s even more funny – the fact that these are all full grown adults, not kids in middle school or grade school – but full grown but pathetic adults.

I’ve been doing everything humanly possible to get my life back – ever since I got back to the States in 2009 – after a horrible 3-1/2 years in the third world country known as Peru.  I have music that has been accepted by Pandora, the songs have been there for a couple of months.  Of course, it takes time (months) for it to get heard, then more time (more months) to get into the payout system.  In short, I think the clock won.  I have held my tongue while being sniped at, bossed, corrected, and bullied to beat hell for the most part of the past five years.  I realize that cheap insults say everything about the insulter, and nothing about the insultee, and that has kept me from firing back most of the time.  The handful of times when I did fire back, it’s “Ok, then get the fuck out…”.  If I dare to stand up for myself, dare to state my differing opinion, dare to defend my position, and it’s, “Ok, then GET THE FUCK OUT”.  I’ve been treated by somebody who claims to care about me – treated worse than some people treat their dog.  I’ve said many times, financial “support” does not entitle a person to abuse anyone, and I’ll be damned if I’m going to be THANKFUL for being beat up on whenever a person feels the need to beat up on somebody.  I’ve always felt for the women who were forced to endure this kind of thing, but even moreso now that I’ve lived it – and to think it’s the woman doing the abusing, threatening, and bullying, with not a goddam thing I can do about it.  I don’t care about all the macho bullshit that gets spread around, because there are certain realities that are present, and all the badass speak in the world will not change it.  Oh yeah, and I don’t smoke, drink, do drugs, gamble, mess around, or spend money frivolously, and I do many things to contribute in whatever ways possible.  I’ve always managed to keep my head, except for the few times I had to back some belligerent, bullying ass off of me – after being pushed and pushed and pushed.

Should I succeed in getting a decent income before I end up being thrown out into the street, then great, but it’s possible, probably even likely, that it will not go that way.  Should it not, I won’t be sad about it, but after everything else the universe, with the help of boatloads of cowardly, vindictive people, has done to me, I will not be tossed out into the street.  Should this bully from hell wreak her revenge by tossing me out, then the Powers That Be will have one less insolent to deal with, and let me tell you, I won’t miss this sadistic place one tiny bit.

The Money Mongering, Murderous Corporations Do It Again

Molly And Callie

 

Today had to take Callie to the vet.  About  2 or 3 days ago, she stopped eating, today she didn’t look good at all, so, off to the vet.  About 3 weeks ago, there was a crew here that was spraying the hell out of the bushes – no doubt it was some kind of pesticide – and they were drenching the bushes, as well as the surrounding areas of gravel, rocks, and walkways.  We let both Molly and Callie go outside to play for a while during the day, they usually stay pretty close to home, and are usually back within 15 or 20 minutes, sometimes Molly stays out longer, but Callie is always back in a few minutes.  Anyway, besides Callie having stopped eating altogether a couple days ago, Molly has been eating noticeably less than usual – also for the past 2 or 3 days.  After the spraying, we kept the cats inside for about a week, until it rained pretty good, at which time I thought it was safe for them to go back outside.  So, the cat that is in very good health (Molly) has slowed down her eating, and the new cat, who was not up to a hundred percent in her health just yet, after having been severely abused, and starved within inches of her life – for her whole life of about a year – until she got with us about five weeks ago – has completely stopped eating.  BTW, she is surprisingly spunky and alert in spite of having not eaten for those few days.  The vet did some tests, and found her pretty close to normal, which indicates that it’s very likely she doesn’t have any organ dysfunction or serious disease.  While at the vet, I got to thinking about the spraying – which I had forgotten about until that moment.  We called the company that did the spraying, asked what the name of the chemical used to spray, and much to my UNsurprise, the answer was, “Oh, that stuff is not harmful, AND, it absorbs completely into the plant within four hours”.  WHAT A BUNCH OF FLAMING BULLSHIT.  They make movies and TV shows about this stuff – about how companies and corporations that poison the air, water, ground, food, and who rape the land, will NEVER admit to the money mongering, murderous bullshit that they do.  They will lie, deny, make excuses, make accusations, threaten, and even murder when they see fit.  “Oh, you mean there are kids being born with their stomachs outside their bodies in the places where we (Monsanto) have used our chemicals???, OH no, it couldn’t POSSIBLY be anything WE did, it’s just the natural order of things, or, it’s gotta be something YOU did”.  For crying out fucking loud.  When we told the vet what the rep from the pesticide company said, she got a puzzled look on her face and said, “Hmmmmm, that’s interesting”, which I took as code for, “Well, that sounds like bullshit to me".  I asked her as I was leaving, “Completely and absolutely off the record, you didn’t believe that guy’s line of crap either, did ya?”, her answer was, “Well, it’s (the stuff being absorbed within four hours) not something I’m familiar with”, which I took as code for, "Nope not a goddam word".

So, the cats will have to stay indoors for a while, and as always, there’s not a damn thing that I can do about any of this.  The sad thing is that this is not the half of it, there are corporations that are doing horrible things to the planet, including the air, water, soil, food, and everything else, while they continue to deny, excuse, make accusations, point fingers, threaten, and murder, in order to protect their goddam multi billion dollar a year profits.  This has become common knowledge.  Of course, there are still those who scoff at it, mock, ridicule, blame, and whatever else, but screw them, their bullshit doesn’t change facts.  Among those facts is that everybody is sick nowadays, everybody is taking more pills than they can count, our food is full of chemical bullshit that doesn’t need to be there, and mental depression is in epidemic proportions.  Most of that chemical bullshit wasn’t there 15 years ago, so I don’t see any legitimate reason why it needs to be in there now.  BTW, this includes the cat food that we buy – there is not a single brand that makes a food that isn’t full of this crap.  The result is that our pets are now coming down with diabetes, organ dysfunction and failure, and a whole boatload of diseases and conditions.  When I was a kid, a cat could get distemper or rabies, and that was about it.  So, what the hell is with all these health problems now – same bullshit – chemicals – the same shit that’s in the food that we humans must eat – because we don’t have a realistic choice.

As with everything else, I sit here in disbelief, with not a damn thing to be able to be done about it, and while my body deteriorates as I write this.