The Commander and Ticklepinch

A good sailing story about Ted Kennedy

A hunting friend told me about this tribute to Ted Kennedy, if you are a sailor you will enjoy the story. It is in two parts. It has a ring about it that reminds me of many lake adventures. More than anything about the time The Commander and Lord Kadizzle raced a 19ft catermeran in 35knts of wind.

Part two sailing story

I'll be with you when the deal goes down

These are the lyrics to "When the deal goes down". Gaurantee you if you have not heard this Bob Dylan song you will like it.



In the still of the night, in the world's ancient light
Where wisdom grows up in strife
My bewildering brain, toils in vain
Through the darkness on the pathways of life
Each invisible prayer is like a cloud in the air
Tomorrow keeps turning around
We live and we die, we know not why
But I'll be with you when the deal goes down

We eat and we drink, we feel and we think
Far down the street we stray
I laugh and I cry and I'm haunted by
Things I never meant nor wished to say
The midnight rain follows the train
We all wear the same thorny crown
Soul to soul, our shadows roll
And I'll be with you when the deal goes down

Well, the moon gives light and it shines by night
When I scarcely feel the glow
We learn to live and then we forgive
O'r the road we're bound to go
More frailer than the flowers, these precious hours
That keep us so tightly bound
You come to my eyes like a vision from the skies
And I'll be with you when the deal goes down

Well, I picked up a rose and it poked through my clothes
I followed the winding stream
I heard the deafening noise, I felt transient joys
I know they're not what they seem
In this earthly domain, full of disappointment and pain
You'll never see me frown
I owe my heart to you, and that's sayin' it true
And I'll be with you when the deal goes down

The good old Urban Legend

Yesterday Lord Kadizzle got an email about how the song "In God We Trust" has been banned by radio stations. Sounds strange doesn't it? When you read these things you can always smell something fishy. The key to this one was the fact that no specific radio station was mentioned. When these rumors are spread they always use the technique of being vague. Of course if the thing was entirely traced to its roots it turns out the implication is somehow Obama is behind it. Now we all know there is a a crowd that believes Obama is the Anti Christ out to do us in. People afraid of black people naturally will be prone to believe Obama doesn't want you to have "In God we Trust" on our money. Being afraid, paranoid, and hopped up on foolishness is what used to lead to lynchings and all the other fun things of the far right. The Snopes site does a good job of busting these phony rumors. If you suspect you are being fed a story check it out. Sometimes you don't even have to go that far. When Sara Palin declares there are "Death Panels" you should take it at face value to be a bunch of nonsense.

Part two Conrad VS Kadizzle

Driving while High

Yesterday the Kadizzle crew drove to the top of Mount Evans. Mount Evans is the highest point in North America you can reach by car on a paved road. The road is treacherous and Kadizzle was amazed the area was not littered with cars that missed a curve.

Lying and spinning

Don't buy a car from Chrysler or GM. This is the advice from Rush Limbaugh because both companies belong to Obama. Can you imagine the ultimate pig Rush telling people this. Glen Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O the clown and the rest of the Fox News gang are truly trying to destroy the country with hate and lies.

Shoot Out with Senator Conrad in Center ND

A nice gathering of hoopleheads appeared in Center today to question Senator Conrad about health care. First they heard from a "Panel". Panel members got to give a nice little speech about their thoughts on health care before Conrad spoke. Of course the panel members all took the pro Conrad "No Public Option" approach. Before Conrad spoke Lord Kadizzle interrupted and asked why someone could not give a speech in favor of the Public Option. Conrad should be credited for his willingness to let Lord Kadizzle speak. Lord Kadizle gave a speech favoring the public optioin and chided Conrad for thinking he could side up to the right, and still have the left in his pocket.

During the public gathering of course socialism and abortion had to be tied to health care reform. Go to one of these meetings and learn how hoopleheads feed on misinformation. It is a good experience.

One of top Three Spots to overnight on the lake

Captain Quinn gets new Wheel for Truck

Click on the Picture to see a nice view of The Badlands

Don't talk to the Canadians

What an amazing experience. This morning Lord Kadizzle had a long discussion with two Canadians at the Hazen RV park. His Lordship asked them how they like Canadian health. They said they loved it. When told about what Kadizzle had to say about American health care and what it cost they were amazed. Lord Kadizzle also asked about all the scary stories Fox News and the right wingers are putting out. They just laughed. The woman was a nurse in the Canadian system, so she certianly was in a positon to know something about it.

When I walked out the door my old right wing friend was cutting the grass in front of the RV park. I told him to go in and have a little conversation with the Canadians. He steadfastly refused. He wanted his view of Canadian health care provided by Fox News. What Canadians had to say about their health care mattered little to him. The truth could only be obtained on Fox News. The Canadians tell me they pay $400 dollars per year. I pay $821, with a $2,000 deductable. When the Canadians come to our country they have to take out special insurance because out system is so out of control. If you want to keep your head in the right wing fog, don't talk to the Canadians.

Update on Conrad

Last night Lord Kadizzle talked to Senator Conrad in person at the Beulah Civic Center. Conrad said he could not support the public option because it would bankrupt hospitals in North Dakota. Instead Conrad is proposing health cooperatives, which may not be such a bad idea.

When the question session came up Kadizzle asked Conrad why the government did not raise money by removing the social security exemption for those making more than 106k. Conrad dodged the question and talked about offshore tax havens. I have directly asked Senator Dorgan the same question with the same result. At the same time I asked what the Democrats would do about the extreme concentration of wealth in our country by the top one percent. Again no answer. Taxing the rich seems out of the question for both Conrad and Dorgan. My faith in the Democrats is getting shaky.

Senator Conrad surrenders to Hoopleheads

North Dakota is plagued with people who believe in Rush Limbaugh and believe in the death panels of Sara Palin. Instead of confronting these people directly, Conrad has chosen to play into their hands. Conrad says he will not go along with the "Public Option". Any real reform with health care will never happen if we do not have a public option. If you want to give up everything we gained by getting rid of Bush do nothing. If you want to move Forward let Conrad know he has lost your support if he caves in to the hoopleheads.

Gofer caught in front yard using Hooplehead device

Yesterday Lord Kadizzle set out to capture a vicious gofer that set up residence near our front door. For 19.95 Lord Kadizzle bought the Kern's gofer begone device. The manufacture actually sent their sales representative to my house with the device. He arrived on a motorcycle with a helmet designed to make him look like a large gofer riding a motorcycle.

The factory rep gave me a brief run down on how the trap worked. You place the trap near the gofer hole. The trap is nothing but a piece of drain pipe with a sock on the end. Now the agent explained gofers are just like Hoopleheads, you can scare them into doing anything. He asked if I was a Republican politician. When I asked why, he said that in order to catch gofers you had to lie and be able to scare Hoopleheads.

The agent told me you set up a situation where the gofer would get scared and find it easier to run into the trap than get back to his hole. Lork Kadizzle began to see the scheme. It was just like bilking the Hooples.

So after the salesman left I put the trap out by the front door. When the gofer went out and toward the seeds I sprinkled near the trap, I rushed out the door and yelled "Obama is going to kill your grandmother". The gofer panicked just like a Hoopleheads and ran right into the trap. Now, I had him. Later I caught one by yelling "Obama will raise taxess".

The device is wonderful and comes with a recipe book. Now that Lord Kadizzle has used it he feels just like Rush Limbaugh or a Fox News anchor. Just make up anything yell it at the gofers and they are trapped when they run to the wrong hole.

70 Percent of southerns idiots, Lord Kadizzle may be one

The commander just read Lord Kadizzle some statistics from the news paper. Forty seven percent of southerners believe Obama was not born in the U.S. and thirty percent are not sure. That means seventy percent of southerners don't have a clue. Poor old Lord Kadizzle is from West Virginia, and that by some is considered the south. Kadizzle saw Obama's birth certificate printed in color in Newsweek, so Kadizzle is convincienced Obama is an American, but there is not shortage of idiots in the south who willo believe any urban legend. Now, lets all go out and kill some grannies just like the new health bill says we should.

Jihad Day Lord Kadizzle takes on the Back Crackers

Yesterday Blue Cross sent me an email with some information I requested. I am paying over ten dollars per month for coverage by Chiropractors. I hate Chiropractors, they are modern day witch doctors. They are the singe biggest fraud perpetrated on health care consumers. If you are willing to do your homework you will find the whole profession has no basis in science and there is not data to support what they claim. So today I started my Chiropractor jehad.

These scoundrel went to the ND legislature and had Chiropractic care mandated in all ND insurance policies. Of course the hoopleheads fell for it lock stock and barrell. Consumer Reports research indicates that Chiropractors and message therapist run neck and neck for results. The message therapist are honest. They just rub you and make you feel good. On the other hand the vodoo guys make all sorts of wierd claims and charge twice as much.

Quinn's Crack on Lake Sakakawea