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Thursday in Payson: Windshields, Hoopleheads & Bernie

It’s Thursday. The windshield on the car needs replacing—again. Meanwhile, over at the National Association for the Advancement of Humanity, Bernie Sanders is delivering a magnificent speech about the real terrorist threat to America: Donald J. Trump himself.
Do yourself a favor and head over there to watch it:
👉 https://naftaoh.blogspot.com/

Back here in the land of Pothole Paradise, the Hoopleheads have successfully torpedoed the new pool. Congratulations, Payson — our children will continue to practice their swimming skills in mud puddles and drainage basins. We couldn’t afford a proper pool, but we sure can afford to make ourselves look like a town where hope goes to die.

Kadizzle continues to be amazed that the Payson Roundup still prints his letters referring to the Three Stooges by name — Steve Otto, Charlie Bell, and Jim Farris. (Maybe the editor has a sense of humor after all.) These clowns pretend to champion the community while feeding their Tea Party cult a steady diet of nonsense, paranoia, and whatever is left in the intellectual freezer that’s been unplugged since 2016.

The Tea Party still has the busted-flat trailer crowd tightly gripped in a fistful of lies. They shout “Make America Great Again!” but apparently greatness doesn’t include a public swimming pool… though it does include massively higher grocery bills, failing infrastructure, and limitless delusion.

So once again — go watch Bernie. He’s the one person capable of explaining, in clear daylight, the dumpster fire our country is roasting marshmallows over. Kadizzle will be in the garage calling the insurance company about that windshield and muttering about Hoopleheads.

America may be “great again,” but it sure feels like we’re going downhill in a shopping cart with one wobbly wheel.

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Another Day

The Three Stooges are the curse of Payson, AZ.  Steve Otto doesn't know the Truth from a visit to the Tea Party. Kadizzle pointed out the hypocrisy of the Stooges in a letter to the editor. The Payson Roundup published the letter. Otto has lied about Kadizzle and refuse to retract or apologize. Kadizzle put a cartoon of Otto on social media. Poor old Otto didn't like it and said so on the local right wing radio station. Otto is great about dishing out lies, but is a little sensitive when he is the victim of the truth.  

The letter to the editor pointed out how the Stooges now want to spend the money from the 1% sales tax increase the last administration passed. Whoops, Otto and the Stooges got elected opposing the tax raise, but rather than rescind it now they want to use the money to appease the Tea Party. The Stooges are the public face of the Tea Party and don't hesitate to play Fox News when it comes to deceit. 

NEW SONG - The Great Fatsby

Trump parties while snap benefits are cut for the poor

Monday rolled around

 Monday is off to a start. Over on the National Association for the Advancement of Humanity blog Kadizzle has an entry about the sad guy we have as Mayor. He was pissed off about a cartoon of him, lets see if this gets to him. 

The granddaughter did a funny imitation of another worthless Republicans yesterday, Trump. The weather is turning. Yesterday Winky's bird feeders got put up and we got some customers. The pool vote comes this week to an end. If the Tea Party Hoopleheads defeat the pool initiative because of their cheap ass busted flat life style the town is doomed. 

What else is new? Erin was out canvassing for a school board member in Denver yesterday. Republican want to destroy the school system so they have plenty of stupid people to vote for them. Sadly they are succeeding. Charter schools, and voucher schools have sucked money from the real schools. 

I Discovered THIS on the Edge of a Cliff!

We have been to these ruins and hiked in this area many times. There is a waterfall here, strange he did not feature it. 

Not Quite the Desert Drive I was Expecting! "Roosevelt to Young, AZ"

Kadizzle and Winky have driven this road dozens of times, but we never got to see a lot of the things in this video done with a drone. We have hiked about every inch of this area. The guy did a good job. If you watch the video you will get a very good idea of where we do a lot of trail work. Sadly there was a big fire here this year and much of it is burnt. 

A difficult motorcyle ride for a man 76

Al came up from Tucson to take a motorcycle ride. Al is a good rider an ten years younger. We have taken rides before. Kadizzle was so proud of one ride in the past when Al crashed five times and Kadizzle only three. Some years have gone by since then. At 76 crashing is not the option it used to be. So we took off on some Forest service roads. The roads were moderately difficult, but handled, then we crossed the East Verde river. Kadizzle remembered a hard climb on the other side. Going first Kadizzle started up. The rain and four wheelers had made the hill worse. On a motorcycle you cannot stop on a hill. Commitment is critical. You have to stay on the throttle and hope it works. As Kadizzle went up he thought about the pleasures of crashing. Would he be hurt, would the motorcycle be damaged? Somehow Kadizzle made it to the top, but was grateful he was with Al.  The ride went on for a total of 35 miles. Wonderful scenery and a few more touchy places.  

Today a long motorcycle ride

 Al and Kadizzle are going to take an adventurist motorcycle ride through the hinter land of Payson. The ride will be mainly on Forest Service roads, and there are plenty of them. The trick will be to find our way home an avoid the really nasty parts. Recent rains have rutted some of the roads. Yesterday we took a short ride and Kadizzle saw a truck camper out in the wilderness. It turned out to be a guy Kadizzle had met a few days earlier. He happened to be a laid off Forest Service employee who did trails like we did. It was interesting that he could get his truck camper as far down the bad roads as he did.

If you want a little political BS try the other blog. The mayor was pissed off about a cartoon of him I posted. https://naftaoh.blogspot.com/

Urban Sprawl

Back from Denver what does Kadizzle remember? Like every city Denver is sprawling over the landscape. The insanity of infinite growth doesn't seem to register. Infinite shopping malls, and the repeat of all the chain food joints, and same stores everywhere. Of course there are also the title loan companies, and the street vendors. 

You wouldn't keep putting more and more chickens in a cage, why do we do it to humans? Kadizzle with the wife inspected a new apartment building nearby the home of Erin. The place was very nice and had amenities like a swimming pool, work out room, and so on, but there were 300 apartments. People stacked on people, and nobody seems to mind. We have been blessed living in small towns with plenty of space. We had a wonderful garden in North Dakota, and here in Arizona we have forest close by. Phoenix and Denver are competing for sprawl. Like ants on an ant mound the cars are endless. The choices are endless, but is it worth it? Kadizzle says no way in hell. The worst thing in any big city are the freeways. On the vast freeways the aggressive drivers do their thing. They drive like idiots and make moving from point A to point B a death game. Why do we tolerate the aggressive drivers? Modern computers, and artificial intelligence could spot the simple minded dingers and eliminate them. 

Over on the National Association for the Advancement of Humanity the question is " Why can't the MAGAs spot Trump's mental illness?"

https://naftaoh.blogspot.com/

Are there any Elk out there? One nice thing about our new home is the huge window in the bedroom. Waking up in the morning we can look  out and see if any Elk are present in the little patch of forest behind our house. Often the Elk will bed down there or stop to browse. No luck the morning. Sometimes there will be javelina or coyotes.