Occupy Bismarck

An absolute, must watch, funny, on the test video

If you can verify that you showed this to a right winger I will send you ten dollars. It knocks it out of the park.

Steve Jobs Blast Fox News, and does a damn good job of it.

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Strippers in Williston, Strippers in Hazen

Years ago when the boom was going full bore in Hazen the Bar at the Crossroads had strippers. An old friend asked Kadizzle and a bunch of other men to help tear down an old building. After the work was done all the men went to the Crossroads for a drink. It was late in the afternoon on a Saturday. The place had a big crowd watching the stripper. This stripper did a routine where she put baby powder in her G string. When she snapped the G string it appeared smoke came out. Most of the crowd was half drunk and rowdy. The wife of the bar owner had a buggy whip she used to keep drunks away from the stage. The highlight of the show was a drunk native American who called himself "Quofum Puffum". Quofum Puffum would get up pull down his pants and moon everyone in the crowd while doing a war dance. Everyone would cheer and the night went on.

This morning CNN featured a story about the strippers in Williston making 2k per night. It must be just like the old days at the Crossroads. If you drive by the Crossroads where 200A turns north from 200 you might see a small barn like building beside the house that used to be the bar. The Rumor was that the strippers did some work on the side to pick up extra cash in that little barn like building. Nothing like an oil boom to stir the economy.

Shooting up Dingers

Kadizzle was walking along a fence line by the lake hunting pheasants when his phone rang. Someone wanted to take him up on his bet. Kadizzle had bet the dingers on the Bismarck Tribune blog cite $500 that 15 out of 20 Canadians would prefer their health care to the American system. It turned out to be Big Jake. Big Jake is another Hooplehead buster that fights the right wing Hooples. Big Jake was just pulling Kadizzles leg, he knew it was a suckers bet. The Hoopleheads would never actually put their money on the lies of Rush Limbaugh and Fox News. Recently Kadizzle spent eight days in Canada and talked to twenty Canadians. Every one of them said they were well satisfied with their health care and could not believe the way Americans lied about their system.

This was the first conversation Kadizzle had with Big Jake. Big Jake does a good job of hitting the Hooples with facts and blows a lot of them out of the water. The conversation went on for a long time and The Commander wondered what happened to the hunt. It is always fun to talk to another fighter in the war against misinformation. So far Kadizzle has talked to two other blog addicted fools. It turned out Honest Omar is a boater, and Kadizzle has spent many hours with Honest Omar BSing, sharing articles and drinking wine.

Kadizzle has only spoken with one right wing dinger. It was a polite and good discussion. Someday for fun Kadizzle might invite all the blogg fighters left and right to breakfast in Bismarck. It would be fun to meet all the people who think you can reason with those on the other side of the universe.

Big Jake has an addiction equal to Kadizzle. Big Jake told a good story about how his grandson figured out that the guy who writes under the name Big Jake was his grandfather.

Kadizzle believes if you believe something, you should be able to support your belief with facts, and you should be able to express in writing what you believe. Our country is plagued with people who accept too much at face value. That is what brought Hitler to power, people unwilling to question what someone told them. Our country is in an economic crises and it is time for people to wake up.

What don't you get about this?

Childhood home featuted in movie

Recently a movie called "Doughboy" was filmed in my home town of Wheeling, West Virginia. The set they used for the home scenes were done in the house where Kadizzle grew up. The picture above was made in what was our living room. The current owners use it as a dinning room. The house was built around 1914 by a man that owned a brewery. The door you see on the left side of the picture was never opened in Kadizzles whole life. The door was behind an upright piano and there was no way to get to it. If you click on the picture it will get larger. As you look through one door you see a second door that leads to the basement. Kadizzle's mother could not bear to throw out a good mayonnaise jar, and the little shelf beside the steps always was lined with jars.

Sailboats have multiplied like weeds.

Yesterday as the crew of the Sovereign pulled into the winter storage yard for the boats Kadizzle and The Commander both remarked how the sail boats had taken over. Being a sailor for 25 years old Kadizzle has seen it go both ways. Sailboats had their first surge when the energy crises started. People saw it as a way to beat the game. High fuel prices don't affect the wind much. As usual this summer most of the expensive power boats sat at the dock, floating cabins. Every year a few more sailors have been joining the ranks. Looking around the boat yard there was only one power boat of any consequence. In defense of the piston heads it must be said they now mostly store there boats indoors in Riverdale. There is something about luxury that is counter productive. In a few minutes I will have to walk to the end of the driveway to get the paper. There was a time it was right outside the door. Now, the inconvenience forced me to take a little walk and smell the morning air. Sailing works the same way. On a sailboat you sit outside and enjoy the planet with no noisy motor. Sure a sailboat is inconvenient by power boat standards, but what is the point of looking out the window of your power boat while you push buttons, isn't that what you do when you watch television. People are waking up to the pleasures of inconvenience, it might be gardening, or it might be hiking, but doing things the old way has it's rewards. Who is enjoying the scenery the most? The guy driving down the road at 70mph or the guy pedaling at 8mph? At the end of the day who has a sense of accomplishment?

Riding the Surely Pugsley.

While doing some touring in Alaska a woman pulled up to the overlook on a Surely Pugsley bike. The tires on the bike were huge and my immediate reaction was, boy would that be hard to pedal. So Lord Kadizzle wandered over to the older woman and asked how the bike performed. The kind lady said hop on and try it. The bike had huge flotation tires like the airplanes in Alaska do. Very quickly Kadizzle realized the bike performed very well. The Pugsley is designed to go anywhere you want. Through the woods, over sand or snow, and a lot of places the current bike would never think of. If you are wondering what to get me for Christmas this is the answer.

The Only Newspaper

Every Morning old Lord Kadizzle reads the New York Times. This morning there is an article by Kristoff about the economic mess we are in. If you really want an honest view of what is going on in the world you can read Tom Friedman, Paul Krugman, and a host of other real thinkers and writers. These are people who win Noble Prizes for their skills.

On the flip side of the coin you can stick to local papers like the Bismarck Tribune and read about the quilting bee. If Jesus appeared in Bismarck and declared he was a Democrat the Bismarck Tribune would do a story on the leaves falling from the trees on the front page. Then there is the Fox News, Rush Limbaugh crowd who loves to be told what they like to be told. We all like to be told there is a Santa Clause, so Rush and Fox tell everyone there is a Santa Clause but Obama will not let him come to America.

400 Families now have as much wealth as the bottom 150,000,000 Americans. This is an economic disaster you can read about in Kristoff's article today. It is not something someone made up like they do on Fox, it is a fact gathered from real data.
On Fox Glenn Beck said God talked to him. No reporter I ever read in the New York Times claimed their information came from God.

Found the Keys

After a two and a half mile hike up the mountain the car keys were not at the top. The car keys were not where we thought. However on the way down with a careful search Lord Kadizzle found the Keys. Two hours of looking paid off, but now we are sore from two mountain hikes in a row.

Open this up and open your mind to the truth

How to painfully lose keys

During yesterdays forced march number two with The Commander the keys to the car were lost on the trail. This means today we will start at day break and rehike the two and one half mile steep trail. Lord Kadizzle suspects the keys fell out when he pulled the flip camera from his pocket while making a video of a grouse. Fortunately the hike is in one of the most scenic places in the U.S. on the Seward Highway. Hiking yesterday we got to see a bore tide. Only sixty places on earth have such a tide. A single wave rushes up the estuary. It is a sight to behold. The tide is predictable and it is a matter of being there on time. Tomorrow the expedition to Alaska ends. The timing seems perfect we have hit an incredible run of excellent weather.

How did they do it?

Traveling where trappers and miners explored the Yukon and Alaska Kadizzle has to ask, "How did they do it?". How could a person have enough supplies to travel into the wild? The task these people undertook seems surmountable. Until you see how vast and rugged the terrain is you cannot imagine what they accomplished. Winters must have been an endurance contest that few could win.

Back to Civilization

Eight days of driving, and the Kadizzles have landed in Anchorage. No more hotel rooms. Fresh seafood every night.

Into the Yukon

Lunch in the Yukon

The Bear Truth

The Commander demands correctness in approaching bears. Driving at 70 mph and suddenly seeing a bear by the road makes it hard to sneak up on the guy in the black suit. However we finally found an older more experienced fellow that was apparently used to the tourist trade. Mr. Bear kept eating his lunch right beside the car.