Who Cares?

The Earth Module has landed in Denver.  Kadizzle visited Walmart to get the oil changed.  As a good citizen Kadizzle spoke with five or six people in the store.  Many of the employees said they were not citizens, others had no interest in voting. The apathy was amazing. Kadizzle feels like it is hopeless. The very people who are stomped on will not vote to do anything about it.  These people deserve to be wage slaves.  Maybe Kadizzle should take that back, but that was the overwhelming feeling after asking people if they were going to vote. The lady at the service counter had a face pierced with spikes, pins, and an assortment of nails.  She said she had kids but no interest in voting.  She looked like one of the people who might be after the rich Republican's gold.  A couple guys standing there said they were not going to vote.  This attitude of just let the Republicans stomp on us who cares is pretty sad. The very people who have the most to gain will do nothing for themselves.

Earth Module Launch

The Earth Module launch was successful, however it did have to return to Earth because Jasper Littlebottom forgot the meatloaf.  Here we sit in Wheatland, Wyoming.  It is early and NPR is playing in the background.  Same old crazy stuff about the lunatic we have for president.  Wheatland is a great stopping place for the module. There is a nice little park that has electricity, and just ask for a donation. 

Today Kadizzle will speak to Sylivie's fourth grade class about coal mining.  It should be fun.  Sylvie is excited to have grandpa as the speaker. 

What kind of future are we bringing Sylvie, and Evie, and everyone's grand children? It is so very sad to see progress going backwards with the Republican agenda of greed.  Top that off with the destruction of the environment, the culture of hate, and the other messes Trump loves to make.  Forgot to mention what the rat is doing to the economy, and social safety nets.  Just wanted to cheer everyone up. 

Please, please, vote.   If people would just talk to reasonable people and get them to vote the rats out.  Young people seem to be hopeless, but hopefully they will turn out. 

After returning from the East traveling in the West is so refreshing.  The openness and uncrowded landscape is a joy.  Somehow we will have to make it through the traffic to Denver.

Joe said, Willy said,

Willy said Sam said Mary told him Bill was a liberal.  Of course being a liberal is bad, but what is a liberal?  Maybe the answer if you care is to ask Bill.  A problem too many people have is avoiding going directly to the source.  Too many of us prefer to believe what we prefer to believe, so the simple thing to do is just believe what you heard second hand. A lot of human suffering would be avoided if people would just communicate directly.  Anyone who has a problem with Kadizzle is free to call.  Perhaps there is a misunderstanding.  Why stew about it.  Perhaps you are right.  One way or the other why not just find out first hand?

In the old days part of Kadizzle's job was dealing with the government.  A bunch of managers would sit around the table and debate, " I wonder what the law is on this, or I wonder what this agency would do if we?"  Well there was a simple solution and Kadizzle used it.  Just call up the government and ask them what you need to know.  It worked and saved a lot of time.  Of course if you suspected the government wasn't going to tell you what you wanted to hear you did not call them.

The moral of this story is go to the source.  If you have a problem with an opinion, that is fine, but if you have second hand information, then simply get first hand information. 

So many times you hear this routine with religion.  Someone says the Jews believe, the Catholics believe, or the Mormons believe.  Why not ask a Jewish person or a Catholic what they believe?  It seems that would be better than accusing some faith of eating babies, or believing in witches.  Now, don't you owe the same respect to people you know.  If someone says  Kadizzle kicked a dog, and stole some candy from a little kid, just ask and Kadizzle will tell you if he enjoyed the candy, and if the dog needed to be kicked.

Former Wounded Warrior employees accuse charity of wasting millions

Dinner with Cramer

The Kadizzles were off to Garrison for a nice prime rib dinner to honor the Wounded Warriors.  Sure enough at the door we bumped into Cramer.  Cramer knew our host and was doing handshakes right away.  As he shook Kadizzle's hand Kadizzle told him " I will not be giving you any money tonight".  This in reference to the last time we met an Kadizzle stuffed money down his shirt.

Our dear friend's family was a quasi sponsor of the event.  So we ended up sitting at the table with the poor guys who had been wounded in one of our recent wars.  It was a bit strange a hard core liberal seated in front of a room full of Trump supporters.  Oddly Cramer was mixed somewhere in the crowd.  The event seemed go well and the focus was on honoring the vets.  It was so nice for the event not to have any political tones.  It seemed the evening was declared over and people began to mingle about and leave.  Then someone picked up the microphone and declared there had been a mistake, Cramer had been ignored.  Cramer got up and tired to blast out an emotional thank you to the vets, but he just could not resist.  Cramer had to do the Trumpian thing. Cramer compared the vets to the black athletes that take a knee in protest at football games.  Of course all this was mixed in with a little praise for Jesus. You know the Republican Jesus that doesn't think black people have any right to speak up when they are shot at too often.

Well it was time to go, and at the door was a young fellow handing out Cramer stickers.  Kadizzle could not help but engage the guy.  Kadizzle started by explaining to the guy how Cramer would not do anything about raising the cap on social security.  Young man proceeded to explain to Kadizzle how he did not believe in social security or anything the government does.  His brain seemed infect with some advanced right wing virus.  Puzzled how anyone could have such strange views Kadizzle asked the fellow if he went to college.  Yes, he went to Bismarck State College, and threw in the fact he was home schooled.  Kadizzle told him the home schooling explained a lot.

The day before meeting this delusional young man Kadizzle had met another young guy drunk on religion over at Archie's garage.  He was a Seventh Day Adventist.  Meeting young people who have had their brains rinsed with Jesus is disturbing.  Trump is nothing but a cult leader.  When you meet the cult followers it is scary.  Our country is in jeopardy.  You know how you can shine a black light on things and see the germs.  To do so is revealing. There are way more contaminated things than seem evident without the light.  Trump is that black light.  Now you can see how many delusional, ill informed people there are.   It is frightening.  The infection is spread by churches,  Fox News,  and right wing radio.  The Russians are exploiting our idiocy, and it is working.  They brought us Trump.  If Kevin Cramer is elected the Russians get another big win.  Throw in Kelly Armstrong as another Trump lickspittle and the situation is even worse.

Hold the presses.  Kadizzle just did some research on the Wounded Warrior project. Now before you read farther, please watch the video above.  The results were interesting. The CEO pays himself almost a half million dollars a year.  The organization is sitting on over a 200 million dollar surplus.  Only 60 percent of the money goes to help the vets.  CBS has been investigating the organization, but the organization has not responded to request for information.  Kadizzle is always suspicious of any charity where the CEO gets paid a whopping salary.  When Bob Dole's wife took a half million to run the Red Cross Kadizzle gave up on that organization.  Kadizzle sat beside a Wounded Warrior last night.  The warrior told Kadizzle he has a job in the post office in Mesa, AZ.

Guess who's coming to dinner

Tonight Kadizzle and Jasper Littlebottom will have a prime rib dinner in Garrison to honor veterans.  Somehow Kadizzle signed on as driver for some good Republican friends.  The premier lickspittle will also be at the dinner. Kevin Cramer apparently will also be attending.  Maybe we can sit together.  Cramer is part of the father, son, and holy ghost gang.  The father, Donald Trump, the son, Kevin Cramer, the holy ghost Scott Hennen, and on the bench Rob Port. 

Kadizzle may have to wear duct tape over his mouth to the event, but that will be next to impossible with prime rib on the menu. However, if Cramer does a mass for Trump poor old Kadizzle may have to stuff some money down his shirt.  About a week ago Heidi was in Hazen and gave a wonderful compassionate speech.  Contrast this to the typical Republican rant about immigrants, and welfare cheats.

Activity here at The National Association for the Advancement of Humanity have been hectic.  Headquarters will soon be moving into the Earth Module for the winter season.  The little general Jasper Littlebottom had been her usual frantic self making preparations.  The gutters have been cleaned and re-cleaned.  The Earth Module has been prepped, new tires are on the truck, and hopefully we can light the fuse on Tuesday.

Kadizzle considers himself a Democratic socialist.  To Republicans that is something like VD or syphilis. This country needs more political parties.  The Republicans need to split of a party called the Deplorables.  Now when you claim to be a Republican or Democrat it means nothing.  If there were a Deplorable party it would be great.  If you asked someone what party they are in they could just say " I am a Deplorable."  It would immediately identify them as someone easily fooled, with no morals, and poor literacy.  No one represents the Deplorables better than the Donald.

The whole bomb thing keep Kadizzle thinking about his second amendment rights.  Will the NRA defend our right to make and mail bombs? It will sure be interesting when the NRA tells people the government is coming to get your bombs.  When the government outlaws bombs, only bombers will have bombs.  Think about that.  We are going to need bombs when those pesky people marching from the south come.  Old Cramer will no doubt fire up the Hoopleheads at dinner tonight with images of rapist headed this way.  Will the NRA have to turn into the NR&BA.  The National Rifle and Bomb association.  Will we be able to buy and sell bombs at gun show.  Maybe they will start calling them gun and bomb shows.  Nothing would be better than a bomb mishap at an NR&BA gun and bomb show.  Imagine the NRA dolts with 55 gallon drums of ammonium nitrate  If the NRA takes on the protection of bombs it will be just like guns.  My bomb is meaner than your bomb.  I have more bombs than you do.  So join the NRA and protect your right to blow up the congressman of your choice.

Six Pokes

Six pokes and three women finally got blood from Kadizzle this morning. Kadizzle has already talked to four women about voting the Republican rats from office.  Two to the women drawing blood were here on work visas.  We need help from other countries.  Our young workers are lazy and on drugs so people have to come from the Philippines to Hazen to draw my blood. Want groceries in Hazen, thank a person from the Philippines, want food served in Mercer county, thank you Filipinos. The idiot we have for president cannot understand we need immigrants.  Trump uses them at his golf course, but that is OK for him to hire the gang members and rapist. The contest to draw blood from the Kadizzle turnip involved tow Philippine women, and one American.  The Philippines won.  So are these people lacking talent or ambition?  They had the ambition to come thousands of miles for a job.  Right here in Hazen there are people who would not go ten miles to Beulah to find work.  These people pay rent in Hazen, buy Hazen food, and enhance the local economy.  These people pay taxes. So what is Trump bitching about?  Trump lives and breathes to stir up the Hoopleheads.  According to Trump rapist and gang members are going to walk from Honduras to rape and pillage in our country.  Surely they can do some raping and pillaging in their own country.  Trump really doesn't want any competition to his lying, raping, and pillaging.

When Kadizzle walked in the kitchen door Jasper Littlebottom was on the phone trying to make airline reservations.  Jasper got angry when Kadizzle pointed out that it does little good to yell at a computer.  Now that we deal with artificial intelligence one must realize computers don't care if you are angry. Let's all pray Jasper doesn't read this and don't anyone one tell her.  Jasper got so mad at a real person in her quest the person on the airline end of the conversation hung up on Jasper.  I think the person made a better decision than the computer did.

Kadizzle is going to a banquet to honor war heroes in Garrison on Saturday.  Kevin Cramer will be there.  Kadizzle will have a hard time restraining himself if Cramer goes into the talking points Trump sent him.  Build a multi billion dollar wall to keep people out of the country while our school teachers work for starvation wages, the roads fall apart, and we have no health care.  Then throw in some gun talk, and immigration nonsense.  There will be farmers at the table.  Wow, it will be fun to hear the spin on tariffs.  Look at your retirement account if you want to know how Trump's brilliant economic policy is working.  So have a good day and talk to every person you meet to get them to vote.  If they are dolts encourage them to stay home or vote the day after the election.

Is the Pope Catholic?

Things are looking grim for the election, but yesterday there were great signs of hope.  Two local religious leaders have taken sides, and it is the right side.  Now this can only be topped by a friend who says he will vote for Heidi after he left the dark side.  So there is hope.

The push is on to get the Earth Module ready to head for planet Arizona.  Winky is jumping around like a bean and already laying out supplies to go. Jasper cleaned, and cleaned, and then cleaned some more, and that is just on the inside. Old Kadizzle spent a couple days polishing the module.  Today Jasper says she is going to work on the outside compartments.  If all goes well the module will head south next week.

Sylvie the joy of Kadizzle's life cannot spell.  In all other regards she is a genius, all be it an evil genius like Grandpa. There is a streak of terrible spellers that runs in the family.  Cheech cannot spell, and now the non-spelling disease has shown up once more.  It may not all be bad, Newsweek did an article once claiming poor spelling was a sign of intelligence.  Kadizzle spells so badly the spell checker often cannot even get a clue.

Since the good ship has been sold Kadizzle has a little money burning a hole in his pocket.  The thought of a new fancy adventure motorcycle has been swimming around in his mind.  The technology has changed a lot.  Now motorcycles are being shifted by computers.  You just turn a switch and pick what kind of riding you are doing.

How about some Donald ranting?  Trump is a lowlife beyond comprehension.  Watching Trump play the Hoopleheads with the people approaching our border is sad.  Trump has no problem admitting he makes statements with absolutely no proof to back them up.  Trump tells the Hoopleheads he loves the uneducated, which is them.  They cheer.  Trump lies so much and so badly, and the Hoopleheads eat it up.  Trump uses religion, fear, you name it to scare and make the simple minded dance the dance of idiocy, and they love it.

Now a shout out to whomever is reading this.   Old Riddle called yesterday from down south.  It was nice to hear from him. Riddle said Lucy is a loyal reader.  Lucy you will get a prize in the mail in a few days.  It might look like an offer from a credit card company.  Down in Florida, are you still there?  One group that has been reading this nonsense are some of the local Hoopleheads.  You know the Trump voters, and the NRA gang.  Kadizzle had no idea anyone in Trumps flock would read this diatribe.  Actually the locals read this thing to keep an eye on their local libtard as the dingers like to say.   Well good morning locals, and when you go to church this Sunday, sit there and think if God really wants you to vote for Trump and his gang.  Now for Kadizzle's motto " You can piss off some of the people some of the time, and you have to piss of the rest of the people some other time" .   It is going to be a nice fall day.  Everyone enjoy it and relax.  So far the country has been able to withstand the tidal wave of ignorance from the right, there is hope.

Hold the presses.  Forgot to say good morning to the Russians.  You Russians should be getting a great bonus from Putin.  The ignorance bomb you planted has exploded in America.  Trump has done everything you could have ever hoped.  If you wanted to create chaos, you success has been unmeasurable.  The stock market has been the best indicator that The Donald is indeed destroying America as planned.

Here goes the day.

Awake at 4 A. M. because Kadizzle has to go to Sam's club to get tires on the truck. Only way they can do it is if the truck is there at 7.  Turns out they don't have enough help to run the joint.  Problem. They will not pay enough, and the people willing to work at slave wages are turned back at the border. 

After the tires, over to Democratic headquarters.  Wow,  the place is closed, and there is a little note on the door saying go somewhere else where there is a note on the door.  Strange, when Kadizzle got back to Hazen,  Bob had the same experience.   After finding the hidden headquarters Kadizzle had a sit down with the big cheese and tried to explain how Democrats could make some milage with the social security cap issue.  It would resonate with young people.  As Kadizzle gave the big cheese some ideas she said umm humm, umm humm.  Apparently she was incapable of talking.  Getting nowhere Kadizzle went out into the room full of young worker bees and gave them the speech. They were much more enthusiastic.  Leaving Kadizzle kept thinking of Will Rodgers famous quote. " I am not a member of an organized party, I am a Democrat" . 

Now some great news.   A guy Kadizzle has been working on for years to be cured from the Republican curse is going to vote Democratic.  To make it even better he told how big a crook Trump was with his tax fraud.  So if there are about millions other like him who see the light there is hope.

Sylvie and Evie.

Kadizzle like his role as an old grandpa.  When Kadizzle was just a dad he always wondered what kind of mom his kids would be.  Both of them have turned out to be wonderful moms and both have put a lot of effort into making some great grandchildren.  Evie is the newest.  Her mom always loved to play with little stuffed animals for hours.  Kadizzle just could not wait until Cheech had her own little animal that talked and ran about the house.  The wait was worthwhile. Cheech and Sam just adore Evie and grandpa can never get enough videos and facetime calls with the newest in the gang. Watching children develop is fascinating.  How do they perceive the world, what do they understand, what are they thinking. Think about this for a minute.  A little person less than two has learned a language. Now what if you tried to learn Russian, you would give up in despair in no time.  Watching Evie put together the magnetic bug house gives one an insight into how quickly little people grasp physics and spacial relationships.  Children have an amazing power of observation.

Both Kadizzle's grandchildren have been born into very fortunate circumstances.  Each gets to grow up with a nanny. There are ups and downs to being a working mother, but when your child gets constant high quality attention all day it pays off. Sylvie was lucky, her aunt Kattie took care of her for the first years. Kattie adored Sylvie.  Crystal takes care of Evie. Crystal does a great job. 

Children respond to input.  They absorb so quickly when they are young.  Too many parents miss easy opportunities to enrich their child. Some observers think the first child usually is the most successful.  The first child is unique because that child get one hundred percent of the attention. Sadly too many parents don't or cannot give the attention to a child they need.  Both Kadizzle's grandchildren have been read to at an early age.  It pays off.  What a wonderful way to put a child to sleep.  Children are the greatest resource we have.  As you get old you realize there is no such thing as self sufficiency. Someday for better or worse we will be in the hands of our children, or someone else's children.  It only seems reasonable that we should therefore care about all children. 

John Prine - "Speed of the Sound of Loneliness" (Live)

Two People.

If you do not know how to relax here is a tip.  Put on some music. Play Leonard Cohen, or John Prine.  It that does not settle you down go out on the back porch and blow your head off with a shotgun. Both of these men have songs, songs with words and music.  Brilliant music.  Both these men are able to capture something. The NYT just did a nice article on John Prine.  What amazes Kadizzle about both these men is they have two talents.  Each is both a wordsmith, and a musical genius.  Both men have summarized life in poetry and music.  If you go through five or six songs of each man and don't find something to treasure, you are not human.

Journey Through the Past (Listen to this song, Pay attention to the words)

There is no future

When Kadizzle was a child there was a future, but it seems to have evaporated.  In the old days Saturday, Sunday, and summer where in the future.  You got ready for the future and you looked forward to it.  Not any more,  in the old days you planned for the future, you saved for the future, and you worked for the future.   This is gone.  Look around you, young people don't plan for the future. The simplest plan for the future is to save some money.  In days gone by you saved for an education, a house, and retirement, not anymore.  If you have some money you buy some shiny wheels for your car, you get a tattoo,  you burn that money out of your pocket as quick as you can.  In the old days people thought about retirement, health care, and how they would make it in old age. Those days are gone. 

So when people don't see a future what do they do?  In the old days you tried to figure out the future.  You did this by reading, by thinking, and by paying attention.  Not any more.  Now you watch football, play video games,  and stare at your computer.  Meanwhile you get robbed blind.  People no longer have an attention span or any sense of history.  All we want is a diversion.  Who uses diversions? Magicians, slick salesmen, and of course Donald Trump. 

As the song goes " When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose".   Most revolutions, wars, you name it come from people with a sense of nothing left to lose.  Maybe that is how Trump got elected, the dolts figured they had nothing left to lose. 

Fun with the Russians.

The Hoopleheads are easily  manipulated.  Rush Limbaugh was the first to find a gold mine lying to the Hoopleheads.  One thing unique about the Hooples is their willingness to believe nonsense.  Rush figured it out.  The key to Rush's success was creating an audience of stupid people.  What is that worth? It is worth a fortune when you can tell an advertiser you have millions of stupid people listening to you. What happens next?  You sell the stupid on gold scams, erection pills, and identity theft protection.  The formula is simple, rake in the stupid, tell them what they want to hear, sell them a rip off product.  If it works for Rush, it can work for KFYR radio, and it does.

The Russians discover how Rush mines the stupid.  The key is to feed their desire for nonsense. What do the Russians do? The Russians use social media simply to feed the Hoopleheads nonsense. Now, the Hoopleheads are the ones who vote for Cramer and Trump. Cramer and Trump are destroying our country.  The Russians for very little cost do a great deal of damage.

On social media in the Dickinson Press is a fake person who goes by the name of " Debbie Lee".  Is she a Russian agent?  Who knows?  Kadizzle has had a lot of fun " outing " Russian agent Debbie Lee.  Now it only gets better because the news media just broke a story about a Russian woman named Elena who is a Russian hacker.  How convenient.  Right here in our own little state of North Dakota we have the Russians toying with our prize Hoopleheads.   Agent Debbie Lee of course uses a slant that props up Cramer, Trump, and the Republicans. 

The relationship between Putin and Trump is very interesting.  Trump is destroying our country.  Simply by creating chaos, and distrust, Trump is doing for Russia what they would normally have to spend billions to accomplish.  Trump has mobilized the ignorance bomb.  The Russians easily fuel the fire of idiocy by simply ginning up stories for the simple minded.  Kadizzle does not know, but suspects the Russians are smart enough to feed money to white supremacist groups.  Already the Russians have been caught feeding money to the NRA.  Why use bombs when you can spread the virus of stupid with the help of Rush, KFYR, and a few agents in St. Petersburg hacking?

How low are the Republicans?  Trump willingly accepted the Russian interference.  He even sought it out? Now you have voter suppression.  Republicans knocking anyone they can from the voting rolls who might vote against them.  So our democracy is under assault by the team of Russia and the Republicans.  It is just too easy to use the stupid to accomplish what a bomb cannot.

Lonesome Friends of Science

The Truth is a state of Mind.

Reality has evaporated. Facts are what ever you want them to be.  Problems can be resolved with thoughts and prayers.  If you are delusional it is simply a matter of finding some people with the same delusion. It has always been the case that each person sees the world differently.  However, in the past there were a few realities we could agree on.  No longer is there anything we can trust. We cannot trust our government, our news media, and especially anyone who disagrees with us.  So the hurricane is coming.  Just more fake news.  Shut the door and wait for the wind to blow the roof off.  There is no global warming, no Russian interference, there are rogue killers dismembering people with bone saws.  The world is wonderful we are all going to win the lottery any day.  When we do we can be just like Trump.  We can buy planes, gold toilets, and lie like there is no tomorrow.  When we become Trump we can claim winning the lottery had nothing to do with our prosperity. It was our business savvy.  Everyone is right.  What a wonderful age.  Just turn to the channel that assures you Mexicans are coming, or killing journalist is part of diplomatic relations.

We don't need science, it is just a nuisance, just like education. Nuclear fusion is caused by the Clinton's, or Obama. The most important element on the periodic table is stupidity.  Trump showed us how to break lose the pent up energy of stupidity.  Trump should get the Nobel prize for science, journalism, and peace.

Over at the Crazy Club

Stoupini bought his new residence.  The last people that lived in the house heated with wood.  Every inch on the inside has soot from the fireplace.  Binki has been cleaning meticulously for days.  Kadizzle decided to see if he could restore the luster of the fire place rock with hydrochloric acid.  It is some nasty stuff, but did seem to work.  Binki is going over the woodwork inch by inch with denatured alchohol.  Slowly the life of the wood is coming back.  Stroupini was enamored with all the custom woodwork and that was a big reason he bought the place.  Shiny has taken on the role of decorator. 

Shiny's poor little dog passed away about a week or two ago and Shiny paid to have an obituary put in the Gesundheit Gazette.  Kadizzle was mentioned as one of Reheeny's uncle's. 

Up the street the bumshunklers are at it once more decorating their yards with what ever they can drag in.  Now up at the Potato heads house they have a shack in the front yard.  The back yard already has a couple shacks.  Hoarders cannot resist junk.  Every piece of junk is a treasure.  Someday I am going to fix up this junk and wow then I will have painted shiny junk.  Of course it never happens and the crap accumulates.  Cars are the classic.  A good hoarder cannot resist parking a few old cars around the house.  How does junk make people feel comfortable?  Cars are such strange objects.  In every country they are worshipped.  You can put shiny wheels on them, and rig them up to make lots of noise.  The car is part of the tattoo culture.  Look at me, please look at me, I have a shiny car, and you can read my mind on my arm.  People seem obsessed with the idea of proving they are unique.  I have a nail in my nose, maybe you will remember me.  I drive the obnoxious car that wakes you up at night, do you realize I exist?  To some degree everyone wants the world to acknowledge them, but there sure are some strange ways people go about it.

What was it like?

Damn near 70 years old Kadizzle asked himself many times in his life how did Germany fall for Hitler?  Trump has answered that question so well.  The people in Germany did not feel right.  The people in Germany suffered after World War I.  They felt they had been taken,  they needed someone to blame. No one wants to blame themselves for their problems.  Along came Hitler to tell everybody they were great, their problem was the Jews.  So now we have Trump telling everyone the problem is the people coming into our country from the south. Hitler dismissed the press,  just like Trump.  Hitler played on ignorance and hate just like Trump.  Last night at a rally in Montana Trump praised a Republican that is running for office.  Trump's candidate slammed a news reporter to the floor. 

Sadly people learned absolutely nothing from studying history.  History showed us how the depression came about.  Prior to the depression all the money went to a small segment of the population on top.  The situation was made worse by a trade war.  Do the Hoopleheads understand any of this?  No is the simple answer.  The depression brought on social safety nets like social security, and the other things that gave the working class a chance, but Trump and his gang of greedy rats are doing their best to repeat the mistakes of the depression.  One of the most important things that came from the depression was the inheritances tax.  It kept the rich from stealing and passing the goods on to the next generation of thieves forever.  You guessed it the Republicans have destroyed that idea.

The best game the Republicans play is blaming everything on the poor.  It is always the people on the bottom that are the problem never the greedy bastards on top.  Trump is the salesman who tells everyone they can prosper by giving the rich more.  The Germans made a vile man a hero, and now the Republicans are doing the same.

Electric excercise

The weather was perfect yesterday to fire up the battery on the electric bike. Kadizzle took off and made about 26 miles through the country side.  The other major accomplishment of the day was helping with the cleaning at Stroupini's new to be residence.  Stroupini bought a house in town.  He wants to be an old goat in town instead of his current location on the edge of the prairie.  Almost the entire crazy club membership was there helping him clean.  The bumshunkles that owned the house previously heated with wood, so everything on the interior is covered with smoke.  Kadizzle worked on cleaning the windows and cabinets with glass doors.  If all works out this will be the new Hazen Headquaters for the crazy club since the old club house has shut down.

Now for a little rant.  Making money is everything, so if the Saudis need to kill someone or Putin needs to murder some one that is fine.  As long as Trump is lent money by the Saudis and Russia a little murder is acceptable. Blatant is the only word that comes to mind.  Catching the Russians and the Arabs was do da.  It shows they know their puppet is so greedy he will overlook their crimes. In both cases the evil doers flew killers into do the work.  So in both cases the killers were very traceable. Of course Trump is like the kid who say " The dog ate my home work".  Lying comes to Trump like breathing, and lying to further Trump's agenda is an orgasm to Trump he doesn't have to pay Stormy Danials for.

Good news, bad news

Kadizzle just visited two public spots in the little hamlet of Hazen.  First, he stopped at the Cenex to get a drink.  Thinking it might be a good chance to garner a couple of votes for the cause Kadizzle asked two dolts behind the counter if they would vote for Heidi.  Both the women said they don't vote. Kadizzle explained to them they could actually vote themselves a raise, and even affordable health care.  Not interested.  The bad news is Kadizzle found the exact same pathetic attitude at the library where another young woman took pride in her unwillingness to vote.  The bad news is the abundance of dolts.  In a sample, three out of three young women turned out to be hopeless.

Now the good news, the dolts don't vote.  Given the alternative of having a dolt vote for Cramer or no vote for anyone, a no vote is somewhat of a victory.  So even after you explain in detail to these people who are young, stayed in Hazen, and are working for welfare wages, that they could do something about their plight, they just don't care.  How sad, stuck behind the counter at Cenex making minimum wage, and they have a chance to vote out the Republicans who love stomping on the poor.  Even after explaining to the poor young people that they could vote themselves a seven percent raise just by voting out the Republicans it made no difference.  These young women looked to be in their early twenties.  They never went to college, they don't have an ounce of ambition, and are content to spend their lives on the welfare roles.  It is hard to feel sorry for people who will not help themselves, but Kadizzle does.  The terrible immigrants that want to come to this country want to come and get ahead.  Those people coming to America are willing to work, vote, and move up the economic ladder.  Meanwhile we have young people that grew up right here in Hazen that don't have the ambition of a hunting dog.  The food was put on the table for them.  The real kicker is the one girl works in the library.  Nothing is as astounding as a person who works in a library and is clueless about the world, the economy, politics, and their own future.  This whole thing gets Kadizzle down, but there is hope.  In every case the smart ones left. The town is dying and one reason for it is the brain drain.  The kids that paid attention in school left, they saw the hopelessness of graduating and getting a job driving a coal truck in a circle.  The downturn of the coal industry, and that also means the coal fired power plants, means the end of just moving from high school to a good job.  Basin, which is a major player in the job market here has seen the future and it is dim.  Basin has already laid off 300 people.  The good old days are over.  Out west the boom is warming up, but the dumbest person knows oil is always boom and bust.  So the young will just sit here and wait for the bottom to fall out.  The politicians will tell the dolts you can solve the problem with clean coal. The same guys would have promoted horses that did not need to be fed, the dolts would have believed them.

To run into three people failed by education and doomed to a life of marginal living all one after the next is depressing, but hopefully those young people who left the sinking ship will be on islands of hope.  It seems the snake oil salesmen will pull it off once more in North Dakota. The insidious virus of the Donald Trump mentality has infected the dolts.  There is only one cure for extreme stupidity, it is cold and hunger.  As long as there is gas for the pick up and the big TV gets cable no problem.  We can watch Fox and football, but when you are cold and hungry no matter how dumb you are you have to try something different.  The first thing to try is what they did in Dayton.  Try some opioids. Let yourself enrich the drug companies once more. As the Trump disaster unfolds who will take care of the dolts?  They will become a burden no matter how you slice it.  Don't forget the dolts voted Republican in the last election, they love a good story about how prosperity and jobs are coming there way.

Train off the tracks.

Kadizzle had as usual a strange dream last night.  He was on a train that came to the end of the track and just went on off the track.  Just now it occurred to him that was a message.  November is coming and it will be the tipping point.  Will we get back on the track?  It is scary.  The deplorables never learn.  They just keep buying lottery tickets from the Republicans.  They listen to the preaching on Fox News, and follow their cult leader The Donald.  So what if Russia and the Arabs murder people all over the world.  The Trumpster says we have to be nice.  The Donald gets loans from Russia, and the Saudis, he needs their help. We love the Donald so we need to support him.  Selling planes to murderers is good business and creates jobs.  Jobs, jobs, jobs, look at all the jobs for welfare wages.  Since the Republicans are going to make everyone work until they drop, everyone will need those jobs flipping hamburgers.

We got a mess right here in North Dakota.  The swamp that was supposed to be drained has been rising. Heidi is not perfect, but she is a saint compared to Cramer.  You, you, you, need to talk to every Hooplehead you know and get her elected.  Women are the key to this whole thing.  There were some slaves who thought slavery was a good thing, but they were few and far between.  In North Dakota there are woman who would deliberately vote Republican, far too many.  No female should ever support the Republican agenda.  Women take the brunt of every Republican policy. Fist they are robbed of their right to run their own body, then of course they are the ones who suffer most from being a single parent.  On it goes.  Why would any woman vote Republican? Could you be alive, alert, and not hear Trump insult some woman every day? Trump has made racism and the belittling of women popular.  This is the man who walked into the women's dressing room at his Miss America show in Russia.  This is the man who says " Grab them by the Pussy".   So what woman in their right mind would support his party?  In summary get off your butt, use your phone, your mouth, your fingers, and wake up some people to vote.  Otherwise accept the pending disaster.

Elect Heidi

Kadizzle wandered down to the union hall to hear Heidi speak last night.  Heidi and Kadizzle have had some differences over gun control, but compared to Kevin Cramer Heidi is a saint.  Heidi gave a good talk about how the Republicans are ripping off the working class.  Heidi came across as a person who cared and was warm with people. Go to a Cramer show and watch someone play the saps who buy into trickle down fraud.

A few news people were hanging around with microphones, cameras and the typical stuff.  Engaging one of the in discussion Kadizzle noticed his accent and made further inquiries.  Low an behold it was the BBC right here in little Hazen filming our North Dakota politics.  Watch BBC Wed, Thur and maybe you will get to see the show.

Back to Heidi.  The BBC crew was getting a lot of footage, but they missed the best part of the meeting.  The cute little BBC lady asked Kadizzle how they could get a good shot of the whole town.  Kadizzle sent them up on the hill above town, so they left.  The best part of the show started.  Accompanied by a guitarist Heidi sang a country western classic, and did a Janis Joplin too.   Heidi is a pretty good vocalist.  Heidi comes across as a person, a real human who is caught in a bind with the Hoopleheads, but a person who cares.  Kevin Cramer is a money grubbing rat that would wipe Trumps ass if he thought it would get him elected.

For being in the heart of ground zero for Republican insanity the turn out of liberals was very good.  North Dakota needs a miracle.  If Cramer is elected North Dakota will be in the most hopeless state imaginable.  Trump will throw anyone under the bus if it serves his needs.  Trump already has sacrificed the farmers in North Dakota to play his games with China.  You need to speak to any Hooplehead that might have their blinders removed.  Standing up to the wave of idiocy washing over the State of North Dakota is a moral obligation.  Heidi put it all on the line standing up for women, how about you taking the time to see if you can change the mind of one dolt.

Arctic Dreams

The sun is still moving this direction, but has not yet appeared.  Returning to headquarters the Kadizzles found the toilet had been dripping for a week or two.  Of course Jasper got quite concerned.  So today the process starts. Clean up the mess.  Kadizzle did not think it was really that bad, but it looks like it will turn into a massive project which will end up with remodeling the bathroom.  So here we go.  The joys of home ownership.  Dealing with the insurance company will be fun.  Since they will have to pay up for the hurricanes, maybe,  they will be stingy.

Ah, the wonderful cold of winter.   A lot of yard work to do and the camper still has to be polished for the trip south.  The little prairie town seems much nicer after being in the big cities.  Being a country bumpkin with the frost on the pumpkin may not be so bad.  The biggest problem in the land of flatness is boredom.  There simply is not much to do in the middle of nowhere.  Now it is not bad in the summer, but in the winter you have hunting, maybe cross country skiing, and that is about it.  The Kadizzles have not been in ND for the winter in a long time, but the new recreation center in Beulah would be a savior.  If old Kadizzle could play some racket ball or hand ball perhaps the chicken meat would melt off.

It is a strange world when a reality show star becomes president.  The presidency has now become a reality show.  Every time you think it cannot get more bizarre it does.  If you did not see the Kanye West thing, then you better.  Trump invites a mentally ill black man to the Oval office to show he loves black people.  The real taker of the cake was the language Mr. Rapper used.  Bi polar Mr. West shot the "F" word around like snowflakes.  Does anyone remember when the Republicans claimed Obama disgraced the office?  Obama would never have done half the obscene things the good old Trumpster has.  What is most amazing about Trump is he does so many goofy things that no one can remember them all.  One day he loves the Chinese, the next day they are evil.  Since the Arabs cut up the Washington Post journalist and scattered his limbs among the desert old Trump is in a bind.  Trump has used Arab money in his crooked schemes and of course the Arabs love to stay at the Trump hotel in DC.   Now what should he do.  Trump is in a word war with the Arabs.  Trump has pretty clearly shown that you can be his friend and murder people at random.  Does anyone remember the two people Putin tried to poison in London?

National amnesia is the new norm.  No one is suffering from Alzheimer's like the silly evangelicals.  First they cannot remember what the Bible says, then they seem to have forgotten all the so called family values.  Trump can lie a little, commit a little adultery, and then preach some greed.  No problem, no memory.

The tax scam is what really takes the cake.   Between the tariffs and the crashed stock market no one has made a cent on Trumps latest fraud.   Again the insanity sets in.  The farmers in North Dakota who hate welfare cheats have been promised 12 billion in cheese from Trump because the Soybean market went south.  Then nobody notices the deficit which has exploded under The Donald.  On it goes, the lying, the fraud, the insanity, and everyone acts like it is normal.   Most amazing of all is the upcoming election. If anyone shows any intelligence, guts, or morality, vote them out.  That stuff has gone out of style in fantasy land.  Now throw in the death of science.  The country is getting blown apart by climate change,  but that is just God punishing the gays or the Democrats.  God has always had a problem when he punishes people.  One guy in town does the wrong thing and God wipes out the town.  Pat Robertson has never explained how this works.  How does God punish the gays and ruin a lot of other peoples homes in the process?  Kill everybody and you are sure to get the guilty one.   If prayer works Kadizzle prays Trump will get cancer of the bunghole as soon as possible.  If there is a God he will answer this prayer.  This brings up the question, why do you have to ask God to do what God should do anyway?  God is blasting the coast lines, why can't he spare just a little lightening for Trump?

Home at Last

God bless Honest Omar for picking up the Kadizzles at the airport.  Home at last to peace, silence and the molasses pace of North Dakota. Sure North Dakota has some draw backs, but also some blessings.  There are no lines, no traffic lights, and the number of dingers is minuscule compared to the big city.  Cheech can have the East.  From Boston to Florida it is one giant freeway and shopping center with some slums thrown in.  The carrying capacity of the Earth has been exceeded and the bacteria called humanity just does not realize you can only put so many germs in a test tube.

Not everything has slowed down.  Jasper Littlebottom is going berserk.  There was some kind of leak from the toilet while we were gone.  Some drywall in the basement is wet and so is some carpet.  Jasper has been acting like we have a radiation leak.  It may be just a matter of some fans, and drying things out, but meanwhile Jasper is panicking .

So many easterners have never visited the west.  They don't know there is a vast land out here with room.  Room to walk, spit, sing, breathe, and move about without bumping into anyone.  Kadizzle remembers 1976 and his first trip north of Bismarck.  Everything seemed so empty and foreign.  The natives here used to say how the east felt claustrophobic, now Kadizzle understands what they were saying.  As a kid Kadizzle used to think the field at the end of the street was huge.  The hills were big, back in West Virginia, the scale was different.  Now returning to the old neighborhood Kadizzle realizes how small and narrow the streets were.  It is as if someone put the old world in a dryer and shrank everything.

A big puzzle returning from the land of many is mass transit. Why will this country not modernize and address mass transit.  High speed trains would change the world in the land of the crowded.  On a good day an American train can do 70 miles per hour.  Meanwhile the Japanese, Chinese, and Europeans move along at speeds exceeding 150 mph and approaching 200.  To top it off the roads are in terrible shape.  Why can't you get on a high speed train and go north and south on the East coast.  One reason is we are building F-35 aircraft at one hundred million per copy. In the Navel Yard at Philadelphia you can see the hundreds of millions in rusting ships sitting there.  In Arizona the Air force junkyard has 54 billion in rusting planes sitting in the desert.  Each ship is multiple schools, homes, roads, hospitals, health care, and all the things humans need besides war.  Of course Republicans love war, and defense spending.  Just say guns, abortion, and lots of weapons, and you are elected as a Republican.  So the country is falling apart, we are getting dumber by the minute, and the Trumpster is lying at the speed of light.  November will tell the story. In November the rectal thermometer will be stuck up the bung hole of the nation and the temperature will be taken.  This thermometer reads in IQ rather than degrees. If Trump and his gang of thieves get elected the national IQ will bottom out.  The fever of stupidity will rage. It looks like a real possibility. 

Heading Home

Old Kadizzle is somewhere 30,000 feet over Kansas.  Leaving the East Coast behind. For some time Kadizzle speculated where all the poor people where, for too long Kadizzle has been living in relative prosperity, and traveling in relative prosperity.  Well Kadizzle found plenty of poor people on this trip. Yesterday Mrs. Kadizzle gave the old man a bum steer. Jasper said the bikes Kadizzle saw in the bike rack for rent were electric. Not long after he started to pedal he found out he was wrong.  So like a fool Kadizzle went down hill from the church where Patrick Henry made his speech. The plan was to bike along the canal. Using dead wreckoning Kadizzle thought he could find his way. Well this did not work so well. Soon he was pedaling along a gravel road by the railroad tracks making his own route.  It never did take him where he wanted to be so he decided to go back up hill to Uncle Ben’s home. This route took Kadizzle through a predominantly black area. As the old fat white man pedaled up the hill huffing and puffing he got some strange stares from the locals. Kadizzle began to feel like a cat working it’s way through a neighborhood of dogs.  

Eventually Kadizzle emerged from what seemed like a menacing area and then found out from Uncle Ben it was not considered friendly territory for the bleached out crowd.  Moving toward Denver at 549 mph feels good. The West seems better and better. The crowded city life of Richmond, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia is disappearing behind. Kadizzle never thought he would become a prairie dog, but it seems to have grown on him.  Until you spend time in the tight quarters of the East you forget the casual openness of the west. At home we live on damn near an acre. After spending days in row houses that seems like a farm. Then there is the noise, the dingers drive about with rumble cars and rumble stereos with the intent of making sure no one goes without sound.  

Now on the up side there is food.  Good eating places abound. Last night Kadizzle was treated to a real fru fru dinner served like one of the fancy food shows.  Unused to such elegance Kadizzle thought the appetizers were the meal, they were excellent and full of unique flavors. The main course also was a delight, but actually the warm up food was better.  With a wood fired bakery making breakfast, and a pub across the street Little Joey was in heaven.

So now we land in Denver and then on to Bismarck.  If the lord smiles upon this orthodox agnostic we will have two tickets to the United Lounge for the economically empowered. There with those whose farts have no odor we will lounge until our next flight.

After the rain

Today is bright and sunny, the Kadizzlites took a walk down along the canal in Richmond. The river is flowing high and it was a nice walk.  Last night we reviewed some of the documentary on The Bhagwan cult in Oregon.  Wild Wild Country is the name of the show on Netflix.  It is worth watching. It is an amazing story of how a cult took hold.  Back in West Virginia just a few days ago Kadizzle was withing spitting distance of the Krisna Cult Temple there.  The similarities between the cults was amazing. These cults always end up making money doing something illegal. 

Now we have the most amazing cult of all, the Trump Cult.  Like the other cults Trump can lie with impunity, steal with impunity, and live the life of luxury. Trump has taken the cult technique to it's highest level.  No country fertilizes cults like America.  The stump preachers that bilk the simple minded are a classic case of legalized theft.  Like all good cults Trump advocates tax cheating, and every form of fraud known to man.

Fire and Rain

I have seen fire and I have seen rain.  Remember that song.  Well it was rain last night like Kadizzle has not seen in a long time. The Hurricane moving up the coast dumped water on Richmond at about three or four inches an hour.  Today the sun is out and bright.  Sitting at Uncle Ben's historic house waiting for the coffee.  It looks like our plane which has been delayed by the weather will take off tomorrow. 

Wow, when you think Trump and his gang of idiots cannot get a bit more insane he does.  Trump invited Konya West or whoever he is into the Oval Office.  The black man proceeded to praise Trump.  That in itself should explain the guest was suffering mentally.  The "F" bombs were flying.  In a nut case rant mister West said F this and F***ing that.   Now remember how the Republican said Obama showed disrespect for the office.  This little show will not be topped soon for pure unadulterated insanity.

Here in Richmond the pattern is being repeated we saw in Philadelphia. The rich are moving in with the poor.  Of course the poor will have to leave once the gentrification is complete. Uncle Ben lives in a house built in 1830 about two blocks from where Patrick Henry said " Give me liberty or give me death".   Maybe Trump will come and say " Give me tax breaks, but don't give me the truth".   Ben like Cheech lives in an updated row house.  These houses are not made for old people incapable of doing steps.

No Taxes

Kadizzle reads the New York Times every day.  Of course it is a liberal, lying, fake news, failing paper, but it keeps winning Pulitzer prizes.  There is a great article today about how the rich avoid almost all taxes.  Read it. What this has done to the country is astounding.  We live just like they lived hundreds of years ago.  The rich live in their castles and the peasants do all the work, and grow the food.  Since taxes are no longer collected from those with all the money the country falls apart.  You can see it everywhere, people living in slum shacks.  The rich have purchased the government.  Adding insult to injury the rich with the Republicans preach to the working class that the problem is poor people. Poor people mooching on the rich, poor people who did not have the sense to start life with millions from mom and dad.  Trump is a good example of a poor little rich boy.  The con man started with over four hundred million Daddy funneled to him tax free. 

The last great depression came about when all the money went to the top.  We are right back in the same place.  The most critical tax is the inheritance tax, but no longer is it meaningful.  The king can now pass on the castle to his son, and his son, tax free.  Until the peasants are uncomfortable this will go on.  Why worry poor peasant?  Your lottery ticket will be a winner, and you will be in the cheese, then you will have to worry about the welfare cheats getting your goodies.  Vote Republican, vote yourself into poverty.

What do cities do to people?

Cheech lives on a small street in Philadelphia.  Cars are parked on both sides of the two lane one way street. It is narrow.  There is no adequate description for the idiots that drive at high speed down the street.  It is simply and totally insane.  Speed is just part of the problem.  Raving lunatics drive by every so often deliberately making as much noise as a car or motorcycle can emit. These savages have no respect for anyone and get enormous joy from destroying any sign of tranquility.  If it were legal Kadizzle would shoot them with no remorse. These are worse than Republicans.  Why don't the police do something with these insane people?  Two days ago some simple minded noise machine went by with loud speakers that shook the buildings like an earthquake.  In the street are speed bumps made from rubber to help slow down the dingers. The dingers still manage to drive like drunken insane drug addicts.  One big piece of the rubber speed bump came lose.  It was off to the side of the Street.  Kadizzle threw it back out on top of the other parts of the bump.  The dolts had to slow down.  Jasper Littlebottom had to move it.  It was fun to see the dolts actually have to drive somewhat sanely.   Why do people feel so good about making such pest of themselves?  The frantic pace these people live at just makes life intolerable.  It is amazing more people are not injured and killed by idiots.  The IQ deficit is the worst it has ever been.  Stupid people feel empowered by Trump.  Trump has made people feel they can be proud to be idiots.  Trump acts like an idiot and people cheer.  Dolts have become the new cult and idiocy the new norm.

Pittsburgh to Philadelphia

Kadizzle took the train from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia.  The country is in disrepair.  Mostly it is the deplorables that ride the train. It is the Trump voters.  Since all the money in the country is now used to give tax breaks there is no money left to fix anything else.  In North Dakota there are no pot holes, but wow in the East there a potholes you could bury someone in.  Kadizzle was so happy it was a rental car that was being beat to death.  It was scary to hit some of these tank traps.  Now think of the money consumers pay because their cars are busted apart on these roads.  On the train you get to look under all the bridges and see the rust and condition.  It is hard to believe we can ever make America great again without putting some money into our infrastructure.  Since the one percent travel by private jet they have no interest in fixing the rail system.  Had Kadizzle been in Europe or any modern country the train trip would have taken half the time.  Since the deplorables are the ones using the train stations the train stations are allowed to fall apart.  The Pittsburgh train station looks like a scene from Auschwitz.  It is a rusty run down mess with a leaking roof and pigeons flying about.  If any European travelers use out trains they must see we live in a third world country.  Recently Kadizzle wondered where do all the poor people live. Ride the train and you will see plenty of bum shacks and bum mousing developments.  Being poor out west is not nearly as bad as being broke in the East.  Kadizzle about stumbled over someone sleeping on the sidewalk at the Amtrak station in Pittsburgh.   What happened to our country?  We have split, and the the people who went to the bottom are voting for the people who put them there. 

Morning surprise

Kadizzle awoke and did his usual update. To his surprise part of his confrontation with Kevin Cramer was being used in a political add.  At last someone was showing the real issue.  The real issue was the woman that hopefully will show up in a video below.  The woman was crying because Cramer was trying to take away the money that would help her child and give it to the richest one percent. That is what the whole confrontation was about when Kadizzle stuffed money down the rats shirt. Hopefully kadizzle can get the audio to work.

The Hoople fest

Being both crazy, and talkative Kadizzle engaged in a political debate with the Hoopleheads this morning.  When Kadizzle went for coffee a large pie bellied Hoople was bragging about Trump in the coffee room.  Kadizzle could not resist so he took up the flaming liberal side of the debate.  Kadizzle shot facts left and right. The Hooples fired back with Fox News, Rush Limbaugh fantasies. 

As things settled down Kadizzle had a more private conversation with the main Hooplehead.  The big fellow who was making a fortune driving his fracking truck bragged about how well things were going for him and how much money he was making.  Kadizzle asked him how much he had saved.  Nothing he replied.  He got wiped out in the last recession and was saving nothing now.  Kadizzle asked how he was going to retire.  To this he replied that he figured on working until he died.  At some point he said he would live on social security. Kadizzle told him living on social security is not realistic.  If he ends up on social security he will be one of the cheese eating welfare cheats the Hoopleheads were just bitching about in the debate.  All this centers on how the Hoopleheads think.  Their scope of time is very short.  They don't plan for more than a month or at most a year in advance. It is the old boom and bust mentality.  The old gold miners were rich for a day, spent all the money on whiskey and whores and ended up broke.  In the debate Kadizzle asked the Hoople what they read and where they go their information.  The Hooples admitted they read nothing, and watched television.  Anything that did not support their view of life is fake news.  The amazing thing is to see the end result of Republican indoctrination.  All the Hoopleheads were convinced the enemy was the people eating welfare cheese and doing drugs.  The real thieves will continue the con and rob the rubes until they die.

Fire Balls with Patty

Little sister mixed up her own invented drinks the famous fireball.  It involves some kind of cinamin whiskey, and ginger beer.  With some good laughs we finished the day deep in the land of the West Virginia Hoopleheads.  Kadizzle is back where he grew up.  Kadizzle is in Wheeling, West Virginia which is now the Williston fracking center of the East.  Back in the land of the Bubbas things are jumping.  Kadizzle is sitting in a hotel along route 70 where his coal career started 50 years ago.  This is where he had his first lesson in how to sell bull shit to coal miners.

After a day of flying in tiny little cigar planes Kadizzle finally made it down from Pittsburgh to Wheeling.  Pulling into the hotel it seemed like something was wrong.  The entire parking lot was full of huge trucks that haul the fracking liquids.  The entire place was full of all the guys who never got through high school.  The fracking crew was having some kind of safety meeting.

After coming from nowhere on the plains of North Dakota the east seems like it is being eaten by a flesh eating bacteria.  There are just too many people.  Route 70 is about a football field away and is a constant roar all night all day.  Our obsession with oil and cars is pure insanity.  Humans have lost all regard for the planet. At the worst possible time we have the worst possible president.  There is no concept of the big picture it is just random growth.  So much it feels like the world long ago.  There are peasants, and then there is the aristocracy.  Now the peasants drive fracking trucks.  The hills around here a being torn to shreds with people seeking natural gas as if it was gold.

Kadizzle the Judge

For 25 years Kadizzle was a judge.  He was a minor judge in a tiny town. Kadizzle was the municipal judge.  The job was interesting, educational, and gave Kadizzle a lot of chances to help people.  Now come the question of bias.  Being fair is not easy, but Kadizzle did his best. 

A case once came before judge Kadizzle.  The case involved a speeding ticket.  The ticket was issued to a young girl who had a bad reputation for driving around town in a careless manner.  When the girl asked for a trial Kadizzle granted her the trial.  Before the trial the young girl was told by Kadizzle not to waste the judges time with poor preparation.  The girl did a good job of presenting her case.  The whole case revolved around the fact that the city had posted speed limit signs on a portion of street incorrectly.  Coming from the north the speed limit sign had one speed, and coming from the south the same street had a different speed limit.  The prosecution offered no explanation for how this was to work. In the most reluctant manner Kadizzle found the girl not guilty of the offense.  On more than one occasion Kadizzle was faced with finding some person not guilty who surely needed a lesson in civic behavior, but that is not how fair works.  You don't get to find someone guilty because you don't like them. 

Now, back to the girl Kadizzle found not guilty.  After Kadizzle announced to the girl that she was not guilty Kadizzle lectured the girl.  Kadizzle himself had seen her drive carelessly about town.  Kadizzle said to the girl " If you continue to drive like an idiot, you are going to kill someone."  Well, within three weeks she did.  She ran a stop sign on main street and killed a man in a wheelchair.  That case was heard in county court and Kadizzle had nothing to do with the outcome, but the local prosecutor was enraged.  In county court the girl who should have gone to jail was fined $45 dollars for careless driving.  She killed a man with a car.  Bare minimum she should have spent six months in jail or way more than that.

Kadizzle blames a whole lot on the parents of these kids.  Once Kadizzle had a case with another girl. Dad sat in court while the girl was found guilty.  After Kadizzle pronounced the girl guilty the Dad said " She is going to be punished for this".  Then he declared she could no longer drive the new car. How about a good Dad.  Once a boy was in court, and again Kadizzle ruled against him.  His Dad asked if he could say something.  Kadizzle agreed.  The Dad said the fine was not enough, he wanted his boy to be given a sentence involving community service.  The son was required to wash and polish all the police cars and fire trucks.  What kind of Dad were you?  Too many parents showed up in court and amendmentlt insisted their little Johnny could never do anything wrong. These are the parents that produced the Donald Trumps and the Kevin Cramers.

The other side of North Dakota

Yes there are intelligent people in North Dakota.  They have been overwhelmed by the Hoopleheads.  One breath of relief is Tony Bender. Bender publishes the Ashley newspaper.  Bender is an excellent humorist and writer.  Kadizzle enjoys his facebook page.  Bender usually tosses something out every day and people with functioning brain cells comment.  Just knowing people exist who have not had their brains eaten by the Republican brain fungus is comforting.  Why can't North Dakota support any kind of intellectual climate?  The tsunami of stupidity has washed over North Dakota and wiped out any hope for reality and facts.  There are a few clusters of people with brains, but if you want to become disheartened turn on KFYR radio in the morning.  It is like a church service for Trump, and his disciple Kevin Cramer.

Poor old Heidi Heitkamp is expected to swim upstream against a flood of idiots. She is in a bind.  To get elected in North Dakota you have to go along with guns, and a lot of redneck mysticism.  This leaves North Dakota in the lesser of two evils gambit.

North Dakota is a bunch of white people who rarely if ever see a minority person or even talk to them.  Women in North Dakota are taught at church do what daddy says, and once you are married your daddy is your husband.  Kadizzle has said it a million times, but cannot resist.  Education just confuses people.  That is the underlying assumption when you talk to someone who seems educated. If you don't understand what someone is saying they are the problem, not you.  The person who is trying to explain something to you that you disagree with is just confused by education, or maybe even facts.

If a lot of people believe something undoubtedly it is true.  At one time the Earth was flat because a lot of people believed it, then things changed when everyone did not believe the Earth was flat.  The Earth became round.  Now you understand how the Republican mind works.  The truth in the Republican world is very flexible.  How else could you embrace Christianity and Trump at the same time?  Kadizzle loves the fundy explanation.  God sometimes uses evil men to carry out his plans.  Was Hitler one?  Trump is eminently qualified to play the evil man role.

Some basic rules for Honest Omar

Here in the Kadizzle household we have some coded sayings used to communicate classified information.  Every morning for most people it becomes necessary to go to the executive suite, and fire the cannon.  For he slow learners the executive suite has running water and a fan.  Now it has come to the attention of the Kadizzle staff that Honest Omar has been reading this blog in the executive suite.  That is sacrilegious.  These words are sacred text.  What worries Kadizzle with someone firing the cannon while reading the sacred text is that the information may be coming in through the eyes and immediately being ejected through the emergency exit.  One must contemplate these words and let them be slowly absorbed.   What are we to do?  Confession would be the best route.  Honest has confessed to Kadizzle, but that is not good enough, nor is it a proper confession.  So Honest Omar must do it correctly.  Go into the smallest closet in your house Honest.  Close the door and repeat these words.   " I have sinned and will sin no more ".  There will be a priest on the other side of the door listening.  Now if you get this response be careful  " Yes my son, I have heard your sins, but I do not have time right now to seek your forgiveness, I am with an alter boy".  Stay in the closet until it is time for mass, then come out.  Don't ever go in the closet again.  If our investigation unit finds  out you have been reading in the wrong place we will nominate you to be an alter boy. 

Two wheel fever

There is something magic about leaning and turning.  Maybe that is why Kadizzle lately has been obsessed with the idea of buying an adventure motorcycle or an electric bike, or both.  Of course the old fashioned idea of pedaling a bike has a lot of merit for getting the chicken meat off.  Confusing the matter are the number of available electric bikes, and motorcycles.  It has been a lot of exploring the motorcycles on youtube.  Some guy with a European accent has a lot of good videos on his trips with adventure bikes.  His advice is good and has centered Kadizzle on the idea of a not to small not to big size.  On the electric bike side of the world there are two main propulsion systems.  One has the motor by the crank and the other has the motor in the hub of the rear wheel. 

Motorcycles and bikes come in all flavors, and of course prices.  Should Kadizzle go whole hog and spend the money to get a better product, or be happy with a little less?  Yamaha has stepped into the electric bike game in the U.S.  and they make a good product.  Tempting, but $2,500 is some real cheese for a bike.  Then over to the motorcycle side.  BMW makes a nice 750cc, but again there is some cheese involved.  The money from selling the sailboat is burning in Kadizzle's pocket. 

To confuse matters there may be a whole different approach.  Go to New Zealand and rent a motor cycle.  Before you know it the cheese will be gone and the problem solved.  So those are the realities.

Let's talk about Kavanaugh, bar fights, and "what if it was your sister?...(This is pretty damn good, watch it)

Then What

Kadizzle called his brother yesterday.  Now Kadizzle's brother has done well for himself with street smarts, but brother Republican has been totally taken in by the Trumpster.  Brother Republican was seated in the VIP section at the Trump prayer meeting held in our home town.  Coal, coal, coal.  Everything is great. Trump told many lies as is the custom when speaking to the flock.  Of course no one notices.  In Kadizzles conversation with Republican brother Kadizzle pointed out how the old home state of West Virginia and North Dakota compare.  Boom and bust, that is the game.  Republican says the fracking is booming in West Virginia.  Kadizzle explained the fizzle here. What happens after the boom?  Now the god of the idiots, the big Donald said in his speech to the West Virginia Hoopleheads  " You don't want to make tiny little widgets, do you?"  No you want to crawl in a hole in the ground and mine coal.  Well most of you know Kadizzle did that.  It is not a lot of fun crawling in a hole and mining coal, but Trump thinks the Hooplehs love it.  Trump would not have the balls to go in a coal mine.  Most of the mines Kadizzle went in did not have the gold toilets of Trump Tower.  Republicans believe the slaves were having a blast eating watermelon and fried chicken when they took a break from picking cotton, which was so much fun. 

We love winning old Trump  says.  On Wednesday Kadizzle will go to Wheeling and see the winning.  Kadizzle grew up when the Ohio Valley was still booming somewhat.  Then there were stores and people on the street.  Everyone with a lick of sense left.  Out of state interest made West Virginia a colony.  Come in buy the government, rob us and leave.  Now Trump comes in like the old snake salesman and does it once more.  Mountain people are proud, and way to trusting.  Working with mountain people Kadizzle always said they were the best.  They will quickly become your loyal friend, but keep one thing in mind, don't cross them.  They will kill you.   Hopefully this part of the mountain man character will come out when the poor old people who have been robbed so many times figure out what Trump has done.  Coal is dead, as an ex miner Kadizzle is not supposed to say that, but it is the truth.

This whole thing reminds Kadizzle of an old college roomate he had for a short time. The guy had two girl friends, one for sex and the other for show.  West Virginia gets screwed by both parties during elections.  Go to the land of the Hoopleheads and say anything, like I said they are trusting.  Then get elected and forget you know them.  Right here in North Dakota there is a crop of prairie Hoopleheads susceptible to the same game.  Always tell people what they want to hear.  That is the simple Republican game.  Giving money to the rich will make you rich. Clean coal, yes and shit that doesn't stink. Tarriffs are good for  you.  It's not welfare when Trump gives it to you.  On it goes.  All it takes is guns, throw in some religion, and of course season with abortion.  That is all you need to rile up the Hoopleheads.  Until the gas tank on the pickup is empty the Hooples are happy.