Monday, November 17, 2025
Sunday, November 16, 2025
Will we be rid of the Orange Rat?
Early morning with coffee. The sun creeps up over the Rim, the birds are chirping, and Kadizzle sits there wondering—what will happen to the Orange Rat today? Another indictment? Another lie unraveling? Another MAGA disciple waking up with a faint headache that science calls “contact with reality”?
Trump’s future seems to be death by a thousand cuts, and the strange part is that he’s delivering most of them to himself. Every day there’s a new revelation, a new tape, a new grifter he pardoned who is now selling gold-plated MAGA vitamins or some nonsense. If self-owning were an Olympic sport, Trump would have more gold than Fort Knox.
But of course the MAGA mind is encased in cement—Payson-grade stuff, too. The kind you pour behind the trailer to park the ATV. Smooth, thick, immovable. Trump could shoot the Constitution point-blank in the middle of Fifth Avenue and Hoopleheads would say it was asking for it.
Yet even cement cracks. The biggest boulder on the Mogollon Rim eventually chips away under wind, weather, and geological embarrassment.
And the Orange Rat is weathering, all right. Court dates multiplying like rabbits, former loyalists flipping faster than pancakes at the Kiwanis breakfast, judges losing patience, and reporters digging up his scams like gophers on steroids.
At some point—even the dumbest, most loyal, foam-at-the-mouth MAGA disciple may look up from their patriotic flag-shirt, scratch their trucker hat, and whisper to themselves:
“Hey… maybe that rat is a rat.”
It won’t happen in a flash of enlightenment. It’ll be a tiny crack. A little doubt. A suspicion that maybe… just maybe… the man with the golden toilet and the aluminum brain might not be the Second Coming.
Reality is a slow drip, but even the hardest cement eventually yields.
So for now Kadizzle sips his coffee, watches the cracks spread, and waits for the day when even Payson’s most devoted Hoopleheads finally admit the obvious:
The Orange Rat smells like a rat because he is a rat.
And the country is finally beginning to notice.
Over on the National Association for the Advancement of Humanity blog check out Trump's White House life.
https://naftaoh.blogspot.com/
Saturday, November 15, 2025
Bragging on the cheap
Payson the town that just voted down a swimming pool published a "Town Managers Report". Seems strange that the report has no real accomplishments. One amusing aspect is the people who were promoted to the job they already had. Make the teacher a professor. He still does exactly the same thing. A big fear of Kadizzle is if the new town manager becomes a puppet of the Tea Party. The Tea Party is the cancer of Payson, a bunch of old cheap goats that watch and believe Fox News. The Tea Party supported the Three Stooges that now are taking Payson backwards as fast as they can. Mentally Payson is crumbling thanks to the Tea Party. Think about this, the Tea Party had a guy give a talk supporting Russia.
Thursday, November 13, 2025
Firewood.
The children are coming for Thanksgiving, and Winky wanted firewood. Kadizzle had a simple solution, just pick up the scraps from the guy who packages firewood. That would be simple and cheap, but Winky managed to make it into a complex mess. So yesterday off we went to "Jim Bo's" to get some firewood. Jim Bo never showed up, but we got hold of him this morning. At this point we had been to Jim Bo's twice. Now at Jim Bo's we ask if we can buy the scraps in his processing place that is closer to our house. Yep, he said we could have the scraps for free. So off we go back to Payson. Jim Bo is going to give us the scraps, but now all of a sudden the mess wood he wants to get rig of is $40. Kadizzle got him down to $20 and he helped us load the truck, so it was not so bad. Additionally Jim Bo said we could come back any time and get a load for $10. In reality the processing of the wood they sell makes a mess they have to clean up. So we are paying him to clean up the mess. In the end a simple task became complicated, but this is the normal routine with Winky. Good thing she doesn't read this blog.
Over on the National Association blog a Trump Post Turtle is featured.
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
Greed versus Happiness versus Gary Tackett
Elon Mush pay package will give him 12 million dollars an hour. Our local newspaper editor sees nothing wrong with this. To Kadizzle it seems extremely immoral. Gary Tackett like every good MAGA suggested Kadizzle move to a socialist country in Europe. Kadizzle asked AI to rank countries by life satisfaction. The United States did not even make the top 20, but just about every country that had happy citizens was strongly a socialist country. Gary likes the idea of a country full of peasants while the top few squander resources. Here is the ranking:
Top 20 Happiness Rankings
Based on life-satisfaction scores from the 2025 Report (averaged over 2022-24) from the dashboard. (World Happiness Report)
| Rank | Country | Happiness Score* |
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| 1 | Finland | ~7.736 (Happier Lives Institute) |
| 2 | Denmark | ~7.521 (Happier Lives Institute) |
| 3 | Iceland | ~7.515 (Happier Lives Institute) |
| 4 | Sweden | ~7.345 (Happier Lives Institute) |
| 5 | Netherlands | ~7.306 (Happier Lives Institute) |
| 6 | Costa Rica | ~7.274 (Happier Lives Institute) |
| 7 | Norway | ~7.262 (Happier Lives Institute) |
| 8 | Israel | ~7.234 (Happier Lives Institute) |
| 9 | Luxembourg | ~7.122 (Happier Lives Institute) |
| 10 | Mexico | ~6.979 (Happier Lives Institute) |
| 11 | Australia | ~6.974 (Happier Lives Institute) |
| 12 | New Zealand | ~6.952 (Happier Lives Institute) |
| 13 | Switzerland | ~6.935 (Happier Lives Institute) |
| 14 | Belgium | ~6.910 (Happier Lives Institute) |
| 15 | Ireland | ~6.889 (Happier Lives Institute) |
| 16 | Lithuania | ~6.829 (Happier Lives Institute) |
| 17 | Austria | ~6.810 (Happier Lives Institute) |
| 18 | Canada | ~6.803 (Happier Lives Institute) |
| 19 | Slovenia | ~6.792 (Happier Lives Institute) |
| 20 | Czechia (Czech Republic) | ~6.775 (Happier Lives Institute) |
*Scores are approximate as reported in the ranking.
Health Care & Education Commentary
Nordic countries (Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Sweden, Norway): These generally have strong public health-care systems, high life-expectancy, broad coverage, and highly regarded education systems with equity built in. The social-welfare model tends to support older adults well.
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Netherlands, Luxembourg, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium: Also strong welfare states with good health access, good education outcomes, though cost/complexity may be higher and waiting times may vary by region.
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Israel: Good healthcare infrastructure, strong in technology/innovation; education good though the system has unique features (military service interplay, regional variation).
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Costa Rica and Mexico: High happiness scores but the health-care / education systems may not be uniformly as robust as the top Nordic/W. European ones; might have more variability regionally, and you’d want to check elder-care / specialist access for your needs.
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Australia, New Zealand, Canada: Good general systems, access, quality of life is high; for someone in a retirement context these could be attractive given the environment and health-care infrastructure though immigration/visa/residency factors become important.
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Slovenia, Czechia, Lithuania: These are in Eastern-/Central Europe with improving systems; good value and improving access, but for older adult specialist care and education for grandchildren (if relevant) you might want to dig deeper.
Monday, November 10, 2025
Some thoughts
Look and listen to the video below. How can a poor man stand such times and live. Kadizzle has a strong feeling we are headed to a depression. Trump has danced and lied us into a worldwide mess. Soon things for poor peasants will collapse. We walked right into this mess. Destroying education was an accomplishment the Republicans will even regret. People have lost all sense of history. Trump is duplicating the Nazi playbook, and depression economics.
