First Romantic project was building outhouse

In a land far away, in the distant past when The Commander and Kadizzle first met, they spent a summer in the wilderness of West Virginia. The Quinn family had a very rustic farm in the boonies of West Virginia. The farm was frequently refferred to as a brush farm. You could spend weeks there alone or with The Commander. The farm had no electricity, no running water, but it did have free natural gas right from the gas well. With no running water an outhouse was mandatory. The old shack was in sad disrepair so we set out to make a new one. The new outhouse was to be somewhat high tech. Our first great brainstorm was to make the base out of the outhouse from an old steel car top carrier. We cast the carrier into concrete. The beauty of this base was that now you had a mobile outhouse. If the hole filled up, you could attach the tractor to the outhouse and drag it to a new nesting place. The outhouse had two other unique features. The roof was made from plexi-glass, so this was one of the first solar powered outhouses known to man. The greatest innovation of all was Dutch doors. The fine new outhouse overlooked the county road. Although someone using the road was a very rare event, you could open the top half of the outhouse door and wave to the passerby as you read the Sears Roebuck. Almost forgot to mention that an old steel five gallon bucket was cast into the concrete to support the most modern of toilet seats. That whole construction process took place in about 1971. To the best of my knowledge that outhouse is still sitting there. If my ambition gland perks a bit I may google the location. I am sure this will be a historical site. If that outhouse still stands it is 38 years old.

That little shack out back

They passed an ordinance in the town they said we'd have to tear it down
That little old shack out back so dear to me
Though the health department said its day was over and dead
It will stand forever in my memory
Don't let them tear that little brown building down
Don't let them tear that precious building down
Don't let them tear that dear old building down
There's not another like it in the country or the town

It was not so long ago that I went tripping through the snow
Out to that house behind my old hound dog
Where I would sit me down to rest like a snowbird on his nest
And I'd read that Sears and Roebuck catalog
Oh I would hum a happy tune peeping through the quarter moon
As my daddy's kin had done so much before
It was in that quiet spot daily cares could be forgot
And it gave the same relief to rich and poor
Don't let them tear...

Now it was not a castle fair but I could dream of future there
Build my castle to the yellow jackets drone
I could orbit round the sun fight with General Washington
Or be a king upon a golden throne
It wasn't fancy built at all we had newspapers on the wall
It was air-conditioned in the wintertime
Oh it was just an humble hut but its door was never shut
And a man could get inside without a dime
Don't let them tear...

Why we cannot have health care.

Preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America:
"We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, PROMOTE THE GENERAL WELFARE, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity,..."

"Section 8.
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and PROVIDE FOR THE common defense and GENERAL WELFARE of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;..."

Twice in our Constitution it mentions "general welfare" What constitutes 'General Welfare'?
The old-age benefits provisions of the Social Security Act of 1935 is an example of providing for the 'general welfare'. Medicaid/Medicare are 2 more examples of providing for the 'general welfare'.
How is providing health care for all any different? How is the 'public option' with it's opt in/out constitutional, because it would not then be uniform across the states?

We are trying to jump a chasm by playing hop-scotch across it. Every other industrialized nation has a form of Universal Health Care. None of those other countries want to go back to what they had before. And for sure, absolutely none of them want what we have now for health care in this country.
So why is it so hard to go with the most obvious, the most humane course of action, which is what every other industrialized nation on the planet has already done? Single Payer, Universal Health Care. The hard work has already been done by these countries. All we have to do is cherry pick what works. What is so hard about that?
The United States pays twice as much for health care than any other country.
Chart: http://www.timws.com/images/figure_cost-1.gif
And yet people are still dying for lack of access to basic health care. People are losing their homes, going deep into debt, going bankrupt for basic health care. How are we the Greatest nation on earth if we can't/won't even take care of our own?
How is it the same people that do not have a problem with 2 wars that are costing us, US, trillions, have a problem with health care reform that will save us billions?
Don't the Hooples realize if we had Single Payer, Universal Health Care, the canon fodder we produce for our illegal wars, will be healthier and therefor able to kill more brown people for their oil? That alone should make them want real health care reform.

Reading in the mountains/ Wall Streets Naked Swindle

Visiting the snoocher bear high in the mountains always involves a lot of reading. Kadizzle is more of an article reader than a book reader. One guy you can always count on is Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone. In a recent issue he does a good job explaining how the thievery on Wall Street works. It is a must read for any one who might hope to understand what is going on. The article is in the October 19th issue. "Wall Streets Naked Swindle" is the title of the article. Most of the article centers on how Wall Street used bogus stock to take over and bankrupt companies. Wall Street literally prints money. Companies that were supposed to have one million shares of stock often had 1.3 million shares voted at board elections. All of this took place with the tacit help of Washington. Once you read the article you will clearly see the most unAmerican people on the planet are the Wall Street gang. Compared to Al Quada, the Wall Street terrorist have done way more to destroy our country. Of course Bush did everything to help his rich buddies set up the scam. Now one percent of the country owns 90 percent. Good deal guys. The article points out there is nothing left for them to steal.

60 Degrees at 8500ft, Kadizzles Soak it up

God hates Amputees

Never occurred to me until reading an article in NYT, that God hates amputees. There is actually a web site titled that. Click on this to go to the web site The site says the most important question to ask is "Why won't God heal amputees?". Now, when you think about what people pray for and what prayers god actually answers you will find that once in a while god will cure cancer, god will help one team win a football game, but there has never been a case where god regenerated an amputated limb. Many people claim god has answered prayers for just about everything, but one must note that the prayers that get answered could also have happened by coincidence.

Back in the Mountians with the Big Bear, and the Little Bear

The travel capsule is stored in Denver waiting for blast off in a month or so. Grandpa Kadizzle, and Grandma Kadizzle are with the Ticklepinch admiration society, in utter awe of every noise and move Sylvie makes. Up to wonderful sunshine in the mountains, a nice soak in the hot tub, and a relaxing beginning to the biggest eating event of the year. Trying to keep the tummy empty for the upcoming eatathon.

Amazing Amish heaters

In today's paper there was another add for those wonderful Amish heaters. How stupid can people really be? Anyone who knows do da diddly about the Amish knows they do not use electricity. So why would someone count on the Amish to invent the best electric heater. The spread of brain dead people is beyond belief. The laws of physics say you cannot get more energy out of a device than you put in. The most you could put into any electric heater you plug into your wall is about 1500 watts. So it is impossible to get more than that out, unless you are Amish.

The real clincher is that these moron heaters are just two light bulbs in a box. Advertising is wonderful. Someone puts two light bulbs in a box and tells you the virtues of a box made by the Amish to heat your house. The simple minded Hoopleheads eat it up. If you ever wonder how big the supply is of idiots just look at the advertising in the paper. Someone is buying the safes prestocked with money. Someone is buying the amazing device that scares mice away, and someone is donating to Pat Robertson. There is no shortage of Hoopleheads, and they are the basis for our economy, people who will buy anything, including the Republican trickle down non sense. One of my favorite Hooples who was a state legislator for years has an Amish heater.

Banking on Stupidity

Saturday Kadizzle went to the bank to cash a check. In the hopeless fight to inspire young people to think Kadizzle started a political discussion with one of the three teenage tellers. The topic was health care and jumped to social security. Before long all three tellers were in the battle. Kadizzle was amazed at how illogical and indoctrinated these kids were. Thought was out of the question, it was just a parroting of their parents views. While talking about social security Kadizzle mentioned how unfair it was to young people not to make the rich pay after they make 106k. One of the girls said "Everyone has the same chance to be a millionaire if they work hard". Kadizzle asked the girl " Did the owner of the bank they were working on, whose father gave him the bank, have the same chance as they did?". The young teller said yes. Then Kadizzle asked the girl if her father was going to give her a bank. She said no, but still could not see that two people starting in life certainly don't have the same chance. During the whole conversation it became evident these kids had no thinking skills whatsoever. Kadizzle went home shaken about how easily these kids could be manipulated by the Glenn Becks and Fox News of the world.

Kadizzle involved in Murder for hire

Today Old Kadizzle decided to go on a pheasant hunt over where the motorcycle gang in Stanton has their lair. They have some good pheasant land. So Kadizzle called the leader of the gang to get permission to hunt. You can hunt he said, but you have to commit a murder for me. Reluctantly Kadizzle agreed to do a drive by shooting, or what would be in this case a walk by shooting. It seems Big Daddy Kerns doesn't like beavers. Apparently this comes from time he spent in Minot where the school mascot was the beaver. According to Big Daddy, the school had a Miss Beaver pageant, and other Beaver related celebrations. Big Daddy claims he was stood up by Miss Beaver on a date, and has not liked beaver since. So in order to hunt Big Daddy says we have to fire some buckshot at the beavers by the river. In high school nothing was more fun than beaver hunting, but is something you outgrow, but today, it looks like we are going to have to let the little tree munching scoundrels have it for Big Daddy.

John Stewart shoots one up Fox News ass

Advertise you are stupid

Advertise you are stupid, some people might claim Lord Kadizzle does it every day. This morning Kadizzle, or I should say The Commander received a right wing email. It was some right wing dinger making a big deal of the fact that Obama did not cross his heart during the pledge of allegiance. The whole controversy is a worn out urban myth. Kadizzle could not resist the temptation to reply to the Glenn Beck style idiocy. Kadizzle explained to the sender that the recipient list at the top of the email might give people the impression Kadizzle subscribed to the stupidity. Kadizzle did not want his name on the idiot list. When an email like that arrives it is like an advertisement of who the stupid people are in the community. Kadizzle would rather not be listed.

Health Care 101 for Hoopleheads

If I proposed to you that I was going to reduce the price of eggs from six dollars a dozen to two dollars a dozen, most people would not ask "How will I be able to afford eggs?'. However, the Republicans have sold the Hoopleheads on this notion. Every country in the world with socialized medicine provides better health care at about one third the cost of our lousy system, yet the Hoopleheads believe we cannot afford cheaper health care. Ironically of all organizations my facts are backed up by the CIA Fact Book. Hooples don't care about numbers, facts, or figures. Hooples listen to people like Glenn Beck, and Rush. Hooples believe that if a lot of people believe something it is true, or if they read something they like it is true. Reality rarely penetrates the mind of a Hoople. Ethanol is a classic case of a Hoople brain at work. Gasoline is a little cheaper with ethanol, but you also get poorer mileage. The Hooples notice the price, but don't realize it gets them nowhere because of the poor mileage. Hooples are what makes a magic show work.

Long walk and a long shot,

Jasper Littlebottem let her 20 gauge roar. She shot the bird in the beak. The bird flew away like there was no problem. A half mile away Kadizzle found the dead bird in the brush. An amazing shot, an amazing find, and now dinner in the pot. Today may be another round of hunt the pheasant. Shot one over the Knife River yesterday and had to fish the poor soul out of the water. Kadizzles gun Table Meat is an amazing piece of equipment. You just get it going and it does the rest. Truly it is an automatic. Often Kadizzle pulls the trigger thinking it is hopeless and down the enemy Jap planes come. Would War II would have been over in no time if they had been using Benilli's.

Kadizzle VS Pheasants today

Old Kadizzle is shot up pretty bad with back pain, but he may take the old Commander out with Shanika to do some hunting. Shanika has been our old hunting buddy for years. Shanika will bring one of his many dogs witch will be handy. Hopefully the Kadizzle clan will be able to return to the southwest with Shanika in a few weeks for one more good hunt. Kadizzle is not the killing type, but one must keep in mind that the Pheasant is not native to our country. Shooting a pheasant is actually dealing with illegal immigration from China. The other nice thing about pheasants is you only shoot the males. Supposedly one male can take care of ten females. Apparently the pheasants are Mormons.

Hoopleheads and Facts don't mix

Lord Kadizzle has developed a bad habit of arguing with Hoopleheads on blogs. One thing that is as predictable as the sun rising is how a Hooplehead will react when you back them into a corner with facts. Without exception the Hoople will say your source is unreliable. If you cite the New York Times, the Hoople will call it a left wing rag or something derogatory. Kadizzle stumbled across what he thought was a bullet proof source for the Hooples. It turns out the CIA publishes a fact book. It is called THE CIA FACTBOOK. Lo and behold when Kadizzle used facts from the CIA, the Hoople claimed it was biased. Of course the Hooples easily forget the CIA was used by Cheney to justify going into Iraq. If you take the time to peruse the CIA fact book you will find the United States ranks very poorly in the world in many categories. The Hooples insist we are number one in everything and don't have much truck with the CIA saying otherwise. Ironically Kadizzle was put onto the factbook in regard to the health care debate. The CIA figures show what bad shape our country is really in compared to the rest of the world for health care. This drives the Hooples nuts.

Kadizzle expert Deer Tracker

This is Scott with his Buck
On the way back from Fargo the cell phone rang. It was Scott and he wanted Kadizzle to come up to Lake Sakakawea in the Dark on Mallard Island and help him find a deer he shot with a bow. Kadizzle fortunately realized the folly of this venture and said no. However, Kadizzle and The Commander did journey to the island in the morning to track down the deer. Scott was excited he had shot good sized buck and badly wanted to find it. Scott thought the deer did not get far, but Kadizzle suspected it made it some distance. With his expert tracking skills Kadizzle found a blood spot about four hundred yards from where Scott made his shot. Kadizzle had the right trail and Scott found another blood spot in another fifty yards. Kadizzle walked by the expired deer once withing about 75 feet. Scott finally spotted it and we put it in the boat and returned to the mainland. It was about a two hour effort, but an interesting way to spend the morning.

Kadizzle Perfects musical machine from plumbing parts

Hooplehead Kryptonite

Read this New York Times article. Every Hooplehead loves to say the American Health Care system is the best in the world. It is just a blatant lie by the Republicans. Read the real statistics and then repeat them for the Hooples at the coffee shop. You will get the classic Hoople come back. "Well that's from the New York Times". You will get this from some idiot that relies on The Bismarck Tribune.

Back Pain strange

Lord Kadizzle never suffered much back pain in his life, but in the last three months there have been two serious episodes. Strangely these onsets happen at 2:30 A.M. The last episode seemed to be related to getting on the sailboat in an awkward fashion. What brought on this one is a mystery.

More than anything the pain makes Kadizzle wonder how people make it when they have cancer or some other major problem. This back pain is bad enough, but if someone had to go through this for weeks at a time it is hard to imagine how they endure.

Sleeping is impossible once the pain comes on. Taking pain medication means you will be in a semi daze all day long. There are those who surely would say that is already the case.

Whats Wrong with District 33?

Last night I attended a District 33 Democrat Party Meeting. We puzzled about how the Democrats could take back the District. Jim Kusler did an excellent presentation of his analysis of the voting patterns of the District. In the middle of the night I woke up with back pain and started thinking about what has changed in this area. Why can't we elect Democrats? The number of votes needed is small, under three hundred with the right circumstances. Jim pointed out that with the right effort it could be done. Late at night it hit me what the change was. It may seem preposterous, but religion in my mind had a lot to do with it. When I moved here in 1976 the communities were primarily Lutheran, and Catholic. These are fairly middle of the road religions with relatively rational people. However, when the big construction projects brought thousands of outsiders to the area, many of the locals along with the outsiders became infected with fundamentalism. Baptist churches and other new strains of religion to the area began to crop up everywhere. Drive around Beulah, or Hazen, and you will see numerous off brand churches that never existed before the boom. What does this have to do with the election of Democrats? All of us recall how the Republicans took advantage of the fundamentalist. The Republicans successfully demonized Democrats. Voting Democrat has been given the taint of sin in these churches. You don't have to talk to one of these fundamentalist preachers long to realize they basically feel Democrats are inherently evil. Speak with the followers of these people and you will soon find they are not going to vote for a Democrat. Ask them why, and they cannot answer you. It is just a faith issue that you are not going to overcome. Most of these people firmly believe God is a Republican. I could go on and give you details of conversations I have had with these preachers, and I can assure you they have a firm grip on their parishioners, and their vote. There is one ray of hope. The fundamentalist slowly came to realize how they were abused by the Bush administration. I think reaching these people is next to impossible, but would be key to winning an election.