Rain, rain, rain

Never has there been a wet summer like this.  The grass never turned brown like it usually does in July.

Kadizzle is trying, in fact actually losing some of the Earth's influence on his mass.  Kadizzle is on a fasting diet.  Try not to eat anything.  Cannot give up coffee with some sweetener.  The first goal is to make it until noon with no food.  Next comes three in the afternoon.  The shadow has diminished to the tune of maybe ten pounds. Run to the scale early and often.  The big win is in the morning when the meat has dried out.  Now maybe two or three times during the day you can run in on the scale and see who is winning.  A good scale number at bed time is a victory for Jesus.  That means you will get a good number in the morning. Of course things get tuff when the devil sends agents.  Bob and Liz came down with pie and ice cream.  You thing you could throw a hamburger in front of a dog and the dog would sniff and go away. Forget it, Kadizzle at dat pie, and da icecream.  Then there are the folks like Stoupini who offer a free lunch now and then.

Kadizzle has been assiduously studying science and physics. If the Earth had less mass it would help with the weight problem.  If we could remove the mass in the White House a lot of weight would be lifted from thinking people. 

There is no Chicken meat until the Chicken is fried

Sunday morning news shows.  Will they fry the chicken?  Who knows.  Never has there been a mafia boss like Trump. Remember Al Capone?  They got him on tax evasion.  The Hoopleheads cannot see the truth if it fell on them.  When the cry was " drain the swamp",  Kadizzle had no idea the swampers were everywhere.  When Trump ran for election people Kadizzle thought had some semblance of decency came out of the bushes for Trump. Right here in Hazen we have more swampers than normal people.

A normal person can spot a lie, knows science, and can add.  A swamper is totally different.  A good swamper can be in the swamp up to their neck and think they are in bath water enjoying some relaxation.  The whole thing comes down to taking care of the haves and making sure the have nots don't get too much.  Who cares about anything as long as we get the tax breaks for the wealthy.  Always remember the Hoopleheads play the lottery.  Next week every Hooplehead is going to win the lottery.  Now the Hoopleheads plan for the future.  Do you think when the Hoopleheads win the lottery and join the one percent they want to pay taxes?  Of course not.  So the Hooples don't vote for this week, the Hooples vote for next week when they are rich. 

Meanwhile back here at the local swamp the one percent is squealing.  Up at the lake where they tear down $800,000 homes to build $2,000,000 homes taxes are making them mad.  Down here twelve miles away where we cannot afford to pay teachers, or have sidewalks we wonder where we could get some cheese. 

No one remembers the good old days.  There was a magic time when mom could stay home and raise kids.  Back then dad could make enough cheese to feed the family.  Now you pay 30 grand for day care to get an artificial mom.  Progress.

Trumpus of Nazereth

Surrounded by men just like him, theives, con men, and tax evaders Trumpus of Nazereth is in deep trouble.  Do what you can to help him make it to the cross. If only they get the courage to crucify him. 

Evil Fun

Yesterday Kadizzle was visiting at the library in the back room where the computers are there was another orthodox liberal.  In fact she is one of the most active good people fighting the legion of Satan called Republicans.  A conversation about the Satanites ensued.  Sitting at another computer there may have been a person who voted for Trump.  As we trashed the Satanites we did not suppress our voices so the other woman got a good dose of reality.  On occasion when Kadizzle knows there is a Red Hat in voice range he makes it a point to shoot out some stingers about the rotten Republicans infesting the universe.  It is fun because you know it makes the Red Hat fume, but they cannot respond.  Sometimes this is where the fun begins.  The Red Hat explodes and the game is on.

Now if you want to help stem the infestation of stupidity in our country what can you do?  Each of us has to make those calls to some company and deal with their service people.  The routine is always the same.  At the end of the call the person will always say " Is there anything else I can do to help?".  It is an open ended question.  Use this opportunity to say yes.  Now explain to them they can vote the rats from office.  Since most of these people are low paid wage slaves they will agree with you, but of course they cannot say that.  Some actually do, but most will give a subtle acknowledgment.

Catch the Rat

Too many times the rat took the cheese without springing the trap.  How does Donald Trump do it? Trump has other rats that help.  You don't work for Trump unless you are a loyal rat. That means you help Donald steal the cheese.  Imagine a job interview with Trump.  Will  you lie? Will you cheat? Will you do what it takes to cover up for me?  Well it looks like we have a lot of jobs you could fill. 

What does all this lead to?  We now have a system where foxes check on the foxes stealing the chickens. 

Kadizzle is an old man.  Kadizzle may be able to slide across the finish line in style, but what about Megan, Fran, Evie, Erin, Sam, and Sylvie?  Are we going to sit here and watch Putin play Trump like a banjo?  Meanwhile right here in North Dakota you have our own three stooges dancing for Trump.  Who cares, just keep those tax breaks for the rich coming.  The millionairs up at Lake Sakakawea where we sail are buying houses on the lake tearing them down, and building multi-million dollar summer homes.  Meanwhile we cannot pay teachers, and have no health care.  We have old folks living slave shacks, but who cares we got Kevin Cramer, and Kelly Armstrong singing in harmony with Trump.  The Red Hats are like termites eating our democracy, and who cares?  Absolutely amazing.  The house is on fire, and we see it as a new heating system. A mafia boss driven wild by greed and with the mind of a child has mesmerized the idiots.  Will they get the rat this time?  No, the cult does what the the rat wants.  The cult cannot see reality.  Witches, damn witches everywhere.  It is any wonder we have so many witch hunts.  Sure would be nice if there were as many pheasants as there are witches. 

Watching Television while the house burns down

There it is on NPR and everywhere else.  The oceans are warming, the planet is dying, and we just sit watching TV.  Ain't no problem.  Every city has people crawling like ants.  The highways are clogged 24 hours a day shooting pollution into the air.  So what a new place to eat just opened up. 

Kadizzle is trying to loose some weight.  Getting the chicken meat off is a struggle.  This morning the goat was to bust below an even ten mark.  Did not make it .  Missed by .4 lb.   Kadizzle probably has a sugar addiction. Brains love sugar.  The science says the brain must have sugar.  Normally the sugar comes from all the sugar just clogging Kadizzle's blood, but now hopefully Mr. Body must have to melt the fat to get some sugar.  However,  ain't no one goin to make Kadizzle give up some agave in his coffee.  Here is how the diet works.  You go as long as you can without eating.  You play beat the clock.  The first goal is noon.  No eating until noon.  If you make that goal you try to keep going.  Around three the food devils are all about.  No drinking wine.   The food devils come on strong late in the day.  This is when Jasper Littlebottom starts to cook.  Jasper can cook up a storm and recently she made some good guample.  May I digress?  What is guample.   Jasper has a unique ability to combine unknown things and make the result taste good.  Bob up the street loves to come down and have guample with us.  A typical guample has some meat, vegetables, and cheese.  It could be soupy or maybe it would resemble lasagna like her recent delicious guample.  If it taste good and you don't know what the hell it is, then it is guample.  Now the untrained version of guample popular for years is "hot dish".   Guample is many steps above.

So back to evaporating.  Jasper made some lasagna guample which we have had two nights in a row.  This will be night three.  This guample ages well and got better overnight in the fridge.

How about a little political complaining?  Trump, the worthless spoiled brat.  Kadizzle just cannot believe the elected rats in North Dakota will not abandon the con man.  This brings us to flummpers.  What are flumpers? Flumpers are people that wander around clueless and usually could not find their fingers if they were not attached to their arms.  In West Virginia flummpers were known for sitting on their porch watching the world go by.  You want to see flumpers go to Walmart.  The flumpers fill their carts with chips, pop, and stuffed animals.  A good flumper will have most of their body covered with tattoos. This finally gets us to the people who elected Trump.  Flumpers do not read.  If they do read it is coupons and sale fliers.  Where did the word come from?  It might have come from the fish you see out of water.  The fish flops around getting nowhere.  This is exactly what a flumper does.

Home Alone

Home alone, the little dictator has gone to Bismarck to lighten our checking account.  Good thing she does not read this drivel. It will be quiet here and Kadizzle will be extremely confused walking in circles looking for meaning in life.  The choices are now endless, cause some trouble, change the oil on the motorcycle, cut the grass,  go on the remedigus.

Kadizzle could not sleep so he was in bed thinking about God.  How does God work? God has always puzzled Kadizzle.  Would someone explain prayer.  Why do you have to ask God to do what he should do anyway? God would you save the baby in the burning building? Maybe God is busy deciding who will win the Super Bowl. Kadizzle is amazed how cruel humans have treated humans.  Could God have just tweaked that a little?  None of it makes a bit of sense.  When you look at the big picture it simply shows how simple minded humans are.  For eternity humans have been wasting labor building insane pyramids, cathedrals, and every type of church.  What if God said " Forget that stuff and build the poor some houses. Build some hospitals and schools" , but no God loves big wasteful building used only once a week.  Is this insanity?  Finally Trump comes along and the same people that piss away countless dollars elect that idiot.  That should be the end for anyone with a pea sized brain, but no not the crowd that makes crooked preachers rich. 

This all get to the point of just how many hopelessly ignorant people are there?  There are hundreds of religions on this planet, but you just so happened to chose the right one?  Now for the best part.  Who has caused more wars and suffering than anyone? Yup, it is our old buddy God.  People have been torturing and killing each other over religion forever. If you don't believe my fantasy I'll kill you.  Sound like just the stuff they should teach in Sunday school. This all gets us to my favorite Sienfield quote " If you believe it, it is true".  Well if all those people get together on Sunday there must be something to it". 

This gets us to the good book.  People study the good book, and try to make sense of it.  It makes no sense.  You could just as easily study the phone book.  One thing that make no sense is the meanness of God.  When God got pissed he never just picked on the bad guy, he always killed everyone in sight.  The Bible is full of countless times when God blew away who groups of people.  Now remember in every group there are little children, and probably a lot of innocent people.  It was like when we used the atomic bomb.  Sure we got a lot of bad guys, but there were a lot of good people vaporized in the process.  Well God showed us the way.  So in the end you can see how church people voted for Trump.

Stuck in Neutral

Mrs. Kadizzle and old Kadizzle decided to go for a bike ride.  Kadizzle fired up the ebike and Jasper peddled the old fashioned.  After a jaunt on a section line road we decided to come back on the old railroad right of way that went north of Hazen to the old North Star Mine.  For years Kadizzle has advocated this old train bed be made into a bike path.  It would be so easy, but, but.  Well we live in North Dakota where nothing ever changes and recreation is looked on as something people in the East and West coast do.  Here in North Dakota we don't like change.  The old goats rule. Any improvement could lead to a tax increase, so lets not fix or improve anything.  The old right of way leads up to a wonder set of small lakes the coal company made. A young kid with a fishing pole could head up to the lake, swim, fish, and have a great day while getting some exercise. But hell no, the kids sit and stare at their phones.  We have all become apple dumplings, including Kadizzle.  The song and dance team at city hall always says they want the town to grow, but who wants to come to a town where quilting is the biggest sport.  Then there are the land owners.  These people don't want no one comin near them cows.  As we found out when we tried to get a trail near Stanton the people were afraid ruffians would burn their barns down if there was a trail nearby.  Most of the dingers don't realize the vandals and Visigoths don't walk or ride bikes.  So here we sit in our little town with nothing.  It would be so cheap and easy to make a trail, but we live in the land were the depression left, but the mentality did not.  So save those jars, and that tinfoil, and never change anything.  It was good enough for ma and pa so you just be quiet and hoe the garden.

Uncle Bumble

Honest Omar just thinking of you as a pilot and philosopher.  Kadizzle has become addicted to Youtube.  In particular Uncle Bumblef**k.   Uncle is an amazing man with infinite knowledge.  Now back to Omar.  Uncle decided to take apart the sensor that made the 737 crash.  That is why you will find this interesting Omar.  In no time at all Uncle gets into an explanation of corporations and how their greed caused the two crashes.  Anyway Uncle has a lot of insight.  So Kadizzle will try to post Uncles video below. Now stick with it until he gets into the rant on corporations.

Back to reality.  Winky intends to clean up the garden today.  Wow this will be like a beach landing with many wounded and lots of shouting.  Kadizzle will be the grunt that has to haul all the dead vegetation to the dump.

Shanika is deep in his new career hauling railroad crews to the trains.  Stroupini and Kadizzle went on a plum hunt after we took his boat out yesterday.  We drove all the way out to the Glenharold Mine where Kadizzle spent a major portion of his life.  As part of reclamation we planted a whole row of plum trees.  Bad news all the trees are dead not a single plum.

As the planet burns there seems to be some hope people are waking up.  Trump is beyond belief, such a complete rat.  Now for the tip of the day. When you make a service call, for example Kadizzle just called Sirus XM radio to get some free service. At the end of the call the person helping you will ask " Is there anything else I can do to help you?".    This is when you say yes and proceed to explain to them how they can vote the rat out of office and tell their friends to vote the rat out of office.  Always keep in mind the power of exponential numbers.  You know the old you tell two people and they tell two people and the next thing puff, the rat is gone. If you don't do something our democracy will implode because the idiots will vote.  Over and out.  Omar, is that the correct radio language?

BOLTR: AoA Sensor | Boeing 737 Engineering Failure

Real Pirates

Yesterday was the annual pirate party.  All the sailors gathered in their pirate costumes and had some grog along with a lot of nice boiled shrimp and many other treats.  With full bellies the women pirates decided to walk off some of the calories.  Down the streets of Hazen the ladies went accompanied by Bob and Kadizzle.  Who knows what the locals thought of this strange band.   Then the group turned down our back street where two little kids were riding their bikes.  Kadizzle decided to appear menacing and approached the kids.  Kadizzled told the young bikers we were pirates and had lost our ship.  The little girls said " There is no water around here".  " Well there is a creek "  Kadizzle reminded her.  Then she asked " Are you real pirates".   " Of course we are".   No doubt they went home and informed their parents about the encounter. 

Abnormal Poeple

Kadizzle likes abnormal people.  What fun are normal vanilla people?  Shy people afraid to fart are just not much fun. Bums, eccentrics, and the outliers make life worth while.  Who goes anywhere to see normal people?  Everyone wants to see the abnormal athlete, scholar, scientist, or you name it.  Too many people live in a box.  It is the box they built around themselves.  There are things the box people just do not think about.  The box people love to have life laid out for them.  Get up, go to work, come home, watch television, and when you get around to it drop dead.  Then you have the Fox News crowd.  This bunch loves fantasy.  This bunch loves to be scared.  Being scared limits life way too much.  Can't hike, there are rattlesnakes.  Can't go anywhere there might be a storm.  Can't do anything that is not planned to the nth degree.  Bums don't have a to do list.  Einstein did not go to church to get ideas.

The niggifiddles drive Kadizzle nuts.  Niggifiddles get obsessed with the " What if".  Once they say "what if", then they get paralyzed.  There is real beauty in just letting life take it's course.  The notion that you can be in control is a bad one.  Some things you can control, but most are dictated by chance.  This gets us to orderliness.  There is nothing wrong with things being orderly, but when things are out of order what difference does it make?  The niggifiddles cannot stand disorder.  The universal is not orderly, if it was all the stars wold form patterns of straight lines, boxes, triangles or something else.

Winky is up

Winky is up jumping around like a June bug.  Jasper Little Bottom has more energy than any normal person.  Winky has been harvesting her potatoes.  She has been cleaning, sorting, and manipulating them.  None have turned into French Fries.   Today is the Pirate Party, an event held every fall for all the sailors.  The Party will be held at Rocky's house.  Rocky goes through more hobbies quicker than a lie through Trump's brain.  In just the past year he took up cowboy shooting, which means you buy six guns, a shotgun, and a rifle, and shoot up the old west.  Now Rocky is into full scale airplanes.  In less than a year he is on his second plane.  He got here by flying model planes.  Rocky gave up sailing after three boats, and now is a pontoon warrior.   Also he just took up four wheeling. This is what happens when you retire and bees infest your brain.

The grass is green in our yard, in fact this is the first summer ever the grass never turned brown.  Global warming folks is pumping moisture from the oceans.  Dolts do not understand global warming,  and you could add gravity and science to that list.

Now Winky is in the other room starting a fire.   We have bats in our belfry and Winky is going to smoke them out.  Cheech returned from Paris back to Philadelphia.  Cheech had a hard time being separated from her little Evie.  Evie also missed her mom.  Cheech has a bun in the oven and Kadizzle has been promised a little boy in February.  Praise the lord.  Kadizzle now has to fix the planet so the grandchildren have a place to play.

Tico Tico no Fubá - Duo Siqueira Lima - 4 Hands

Addiction

Kadizzle will admit he has been drawn into Youtube.   Youtube is a conglomeration of everything.  Youtube has figured out how to feed you things you are interested in.  When you look at one thing the algorithm figures out what else you might want to investigate.  As you follow the thread you get drawn in.  Kadizzle has been drawn in to occupations.  What is life like as a tow boat captain,  what is is like to operate a train,  a tower crane, or just about anything.  On Youtube someone has made a video.  For some strange reason Kadizzle has been following some guy who just moves barges up and down the rivers of our country.  At first it seems boring, perhaps because it is, but somehow you start to get pulled in.  Going under a bridge is a big deal, getting the barges through a lock is not easy.  Slowly you begin to realize how complicated something simple can be.  With the barge guy you begin to understand how he uses the river to steer the barges.  It becomes interesting.

Now readers bear with Kadizzle.  Sometimes we have no choice here but to use profanity.  Last night surfing Youtube Kadizzle came across a video titled " Uncle Bumblefuck explains the meaning of life".   The title drew Kadizzle in.   Uncle gave a very good dissertation as he drew with a magic marker on his work bench.  If it works Kadizzle will post the video below.  It will either entertain you or make you scratch your head.  So if you are sensitive you should be warned Uncle uses some salty language, but he does give some good advice.

Summary of every Self-Help Book EVER.

Good Morning Boys and Girls

North Dakota only has one writer worth the trees that get killed to make his paper. Tony Bender did a nice job of shooting up the NRA idiots that populate the state.  Read his article in the Inforum.

Today making America Great Again will involve replacing more curtain strings.  It is a frustrating job. Winky loves to raise and lower curtains so Kadizzle has become a curtain expert replacing all the worn strings in the shades. In fact word has got out and Kadizzle even has to do it for the neighbors.

Trump is working hard on messing up a one car funeral.  Bone Spurs will surely stir up a war in the middle east.  Amazing anyone will work for him.  Who would sign on to be the next captain of the Titanic.  Be assured those who go to work for Trump are selected by how from divorced from reality they are.  If you can do brain surgery on a mosquito you can work for Trump.

Fall is here and soon Winky will go nuts when a leaf falls in the yard.  Every ten minutes we will have to run the mower out to pick up any errant leaves. 

Homelessness in the United States.  What insanity.  The rich have two or three very nice houses. The poor should find a nice culvert to live in.  This all reminds Kadizzle of forty or fifty years ago when he read about bum nest in the Wall Street Journal.  Someone in San Fran Cisco came up with the idea to stack culverts like pigeon nest.  In each culvert they placed a piece of plywood to give the bums a level sleeping area.  The bums were supposed to crawl into the nest at night and sleep.  Why not design bridges so people can live under them.  Might be a cheap way to make bum nest.  Of course we would never want to tax the rich and build bum nest.  That would spoil the bums.  Why are the most bums where the most rich people are.  Wonder who took the money.

Kadizzle wants to start a new program called Bum Walkers.   Bums would get paid a nice sum for picking up litter.  If you qualified as a Bum Walker you would get ten cents a can for aluminum cans, the same for bottles, and 25 cents a pound for most other trash.  All a Bum would have to do is walk around with their shopping cart and pick up trash.  A lot of Bums are already doing it.  Bums might get paid five dollars to take a shower.  Why not make bumming respectable.  Bums could be made into spies.  Bums could report on drug dealers, thieves and so on.  Bums could be a resource instead of a problem.  Why not build nice bum nest.  This brings us to Denver.  As you ride the rapid transit into Denver you see an old lot with tiny, nice bum nest.  If you want to join Bum Walkers let me know.  Kadizzle may just give it a try.  While riding the ebike along the waterways in Denver, Kadizzle saw many of the Bum units.  When Trump and the Republicans allow the rich to make slaves out of the working class we will have more Bums.  Our best insurance is to make Bum life better.

Don Shirley Trio - Water Boy give this a try.

A loyal reader walking down the street.

Hazen is the little town where Kadizzle resides.  You could drive through the town and not realize how wealthy the town is.  The average income in Hazen is $10,000 per family higher than the average in the United States.  However, the people refuse to pay taxes or for just about anything.  A Kadizzle reader was walking down the street today and we met and had a conversation about the sidewalks in Hazen.  In many instance the sidewalks are non-existent.   On the main thourofares is is not unusual to constantly go from cement to grass. The law requires home owners to install sidewalks, but they ignore the law.  Nothing ever gets done.  One person actually tore out the sidewalk and planted trees. 

So once more winter will come and young women will push their babies down the street in slush and snow with cars splashing them because we pretend like we are broke in Hazen.

Lets get some stuff

Driving across New Mexico you get to see trains hauling crap from China to Walmart.  One train about every fifteen minutes.  Where does the crap end up?  In Hazen we are building storage sheds at an alarming rate.  Every home must rent a storage shed for the stuffed animals, the vegomatics, and what ever you have too much of.  Each of us must have a boat, jet ski, RV, and of course the old car we will fix up.  What an insane world.  We live so we can buy junk we never use.   Go to work for eight or ten hours every day to fill a bin with junk.  Every once in awhile we have a sale and sell our crap to raise some money to buy new crap.  Drive across the country, ride a train across the country, and every city has storage sheds growing like weeds.  How can you be poor when your whole country does not have enough room to store the stuff you don't need.  Here in Hazen we don't have side walks because we cannot afford them.  Wait, but we can afford storage sheds.  We don't pay teachers, but we have the money to buy stuff and put it in a pole barn or a shed.  Insane.  No health care, but we got sheds lots of sheds.

The Mayor stopped by

Kadizzle spent a lot of yesterday working on the Jihad with the slummers up the street.  Kadizzle managed to finally get hold of another city commissioner.  Kadizzle has talked to three commissioners and the mayor.  All three commissioners were like talking to bricks.  It was the old " I feel your pain" routine.  Kadizzle thought about ramping up the Jihad, but the mayor showed up out of the clear blue sky and said he would take a " soft " approach to the deplorables.   To Kadizzle's amazement he found out no one has even written a letter to the degenerates after six years of dealing with them.  So here is the compromise.  The city will at minimum inform the degenerates that they are in violation of the city ordinances by running a junk yard from their lot.  Everyone has heard the saying " You can't fight city hall".  There is a lot of truth there.  If you want action watch a glacier move.  After six years the old brown junked truck still sits up the street proudly proclaiming " We don't give a shit". 

Now to the poor old Trumpster.  Seems like he is going to have to roll the dice to see who to bomb.  Trump has made such a mess out of the middle east that now he is asking his buddy who murders journalist who to bomb.  Secretly the oil companies are jumping with joy.  The price of oil just went up $12.   Nothing like a good old war in the middle east to help drilling in North Dakota.  Maybe this will help us sell our house.

A Good Group

Yesterday the old sailors gathered to take down the mast on Rodger and Ruth's sailboat.  It was like a barn raising in reverse. Rodger has sold the ship and it needed to be packaged for shipment.  Kadizzle has been a sailor for a long time and will testify that sailors are a special breed.  When sailors need something done they come together.  It is almost like a religious group without all the rules. There is one simple rule.  Don't just stand there do something to help.  Sailors are at the mercy of the universe.  Actually we all are, but sailors face it more directly.  If old power boat Willy sees a storm he guns his motor and goes home.  On the other hand the sailor up the creek or lake cannot outrun a storm, so sailors have to hunker down and ride it out. This means cooperation.  The old saying " A friend in need is a friend indeed".  Sailors know this better than anyone.  When your boat is sinking or has gone aground having a friend on another boat is a warm feeling.  Sailors operate on the principle, someday I may need help, so it is best to help everyone you can so when my day comes they will help me".   This seems like a simple idea, but as a society we have adopted a different mantra,  I got mine the hell with you.

The Deplorables

Hillary Clinton probably lost the election because she called out the deplorables.  Well, they live up the street. The Kadizzles came home from the Grand Canyon with high hopes the brave Hazen City Commission would have taken some action to clean up the junkyard at the end of our street.  Nope, the deplorables actually added to the collection when we were gone.  Kadizzle did a count yesterday.  The degenerats now have five boats, four junked pickups, one junked car, two utility trailers, a fifth wheel camper, and two jest skis.  Of course there is also a nice assortment of other crap laying around.

Upset with the total inability of the City of Hazen to deal with the ordinaces Kadizzle talked to two of the Commissioners.  Same old run around " I understand how you feel " or  "These things take time were working on it".  These things take time, six years have passed and the city has done absolutely nothing.  One common excuse is the police are so busy with other problems.  Yep, Hazen, North Dakota is a drug infested crime ridden town full of gangs that keep the police busy.

Grandpa deplorable confronted Kadizzle in the hardware store and said " You have no business checking on other people's inventory".   OK, hoarders, that is not trash you are collecting, it is inventory. 

So it is time for a Jihad.  Kadizzle is contemplating a calendar.  This is actually a suggestion from Stroupini.  Each month will feature a picture of one of Hazen's premier yards. Each City Commissioner will get one as a Christmas gift.

Elizabeth Warren

Kadizzle has not paid as much attention to the debates as he should, but it looks like Warren is emerging as his choice.  Warren is promoting the idea Kadizzle has pushed hard for.  Make the rich pay into social security.  If the cap on social security were raised the sun would shine.  Currently no social security is paid on any dollar earned over 138,000 dollars.  Our country could have a retirement age of 60 for everyone, and health care if only people would wake up to the massive fraud the tax now is.  Why do poor people have to pay a 7% tax for being poor?  Social Security is the biggest tax break imaginable for the wealthy.  Imagine suddenly making 7% more.  It is even worse than this.  If you are self employed you get a 15% break for being rich. 

What if we tried to put more money in the hands of working people?  The solution is simple.  Have people making under 50 thousand only pay two percent into social security.  Make up the difference by making the rich pay on every dollar they earn.  This would stimulate the economy, and enable young families to thrive.  Please someone tell me why this will not work.  As it currently stands social security is the biggest fraud pulled on working people.  The most amazing thing about this entire discussion is that you typical dinger has no clue the rich don't pay.  Ask ten dingers today if they know the rich do not pay in.  Be assured  nine out ten do not know.

Won another ten million today

It is getting old winning two to seven million in one day from Publishers Clearing House.  As Kadizzled finished up the fraud call he wondered how do Republicans react to this fraud? Do they bite? After all the ultimate con man lies to them every day.  It would be very interesting to know how many Republicans fall for the Clearing House fraud vs the normal people.  Today it only cost Kadizzle 2, 800.28 dollars to win 7 million.  Earlier today Kadizzle won two million.  Trump voters must be like picking the low hanging fruit for these con artist.  Kadizzle likes to lead on the fraud guys clear to the end just to waste their time.  The nice guy told me exactly how to fill out the check and mail it to him overnight.  It would take the van up to an hour to come to my house with the check.  Hopefully there will be room for all the vans to deliver the money.  The nice fraud guy asked Kadizzle if it would be OK to call him " Mr. Millionaire".  Sure you can.  At the end of the call Kadizzle asked fraud man to quit calling the money is just piling up.  In the last two months Kadizzle has won over 30 million.  Winning millions is such a nuisance when you are riding your bike or painting the house.  It is extremely hard to believe these guys cannot be caught.  The strangest thing is they use a computer generated voice to hide their real voice.  Who in the hell falls for this stuff?  There must be enough Republicans to make it worthwhile.

Shanika the railroad man

Old Shanika has taken a job hauling railroad crews.  Somewhere out there in the dark of night he is dropping off a train crew in the middle of nowhere.  He does this so we can have all the coal we need, along with all the stuffed animals shipped here by the trainload to Walmart.

Today Kadizzle may take another ride on the ebike in Denver.  May make it clear to downtown from Stapleton.  Along the bike path yesterday were some nice homes built by the homeless.  One deluxe home made from tarps and pallets had multiple rooms with a view of the creek.  One industrious bum seemed to be pulling a train of junk with a bike.  Shopping carts are the preferred SUVs for bums.  Along the path there seemed to be a couple of shopping carts loaded with bumites.  Bumites are the treasures bums find in the world. 

Now back to the world that is in the middle of the territory claimed by the bums.  The bums get the creek beds, but the good guys get to live in the sprawling new area of Stapleton. Kadizzle is always amazed about the manicured neighborhoods with landscaping, winding paths, and totally free of any sign of poverty.  The world seems the same everywhere.  Trump golfs while people die from a storm, and here we sit living the life of ease while so many in the world struggle to make it to the end of the day.  Well as the Republicans say " If they would just work hard like I did, they would not be in that mess".  Working hard is great but having a rich uncle is better.

The blasted snoochel (Sylvie) gave Kadizzle the seal of approval this morning.  She complains about all the old man smells a 70 year old grandpa has.  Kadizzle jumped in the shower, brushed his teeth, put on some deodorant, and was welcomed by the snoochel.  She sniffed Kadizzle, even his breath and said " Very impressive Grandpa".  Hugging and kissing the blasted snoochel is one of the things that keep Grandpa alive.

Maybe it has not been announced here, but Cheech is going to produce a little boy.  Kadizzle has been inundated by girls and it is about time someone popped out a boy.  Now old Kadizzle has to live long enough to enjoy his new playmate.

It doesn't hurt to ask

Kadizzle has often lectured young people about the concept of asking.  Much can be gained simply by asking.  Kadizzle could write a book about all the things and help he has managed to get over the years by simply asking.  Today Kadizzle practiced his scavenging skills.  For some time Kadizzle has been wanting to acquire some one inch pulling tape.  What in the hell is pulling tape and why would you want it?  People who have to run wires through conduit, or pipe do so with pulling tape.  Pulling tape is just nylon line in the shape of a flat belt.  The people who use the stuff only use it once.  They cannot take a chance on the tape breaking in a pipe.  The beauty of the stuff is it's strength.  The small stuff is good for 1500lbs and the nice stuff Kadizzle got today will hold 2500lbs.   Kadizzle uses it to tie everything and anything.  Since it is free you can cut it to any length and throw it away.

Kadizzle has been on the lookout for the one inch stuff for some time.  The trick is to find some construction guys with those huge reels of bright orange plastic pipe.  Today Kadizzle was riding about in Denver and there they were,  the big reels that signal pulling tape cannot be far away.  With luck two employees were right there.  Kadizzle  ASKED if they had any pulling tape.  The nice fellow said " how much do you want?"  Kadizzle said " how much do you have?'.   The worker went over and got a whole reel of the stuff and gave it to Kadizzle.   A reel is about 349 dollars.  There must have been about half a reel or more still on the drum.  Kadizzle was baffled by such a large amount of exactly what he was looking for.  Delighted with the find Kadizzle offered to pay the guy several times.  The man would just not take any money.  So now Kadizzle has a two or three year supply.    The last time Kadizzle went in search of pulling tape the man gave him a brand new roll of wire.  It mush have been about fifteen pounds of nice wire for fencing, tying bundles or whatever.  There again the guy would take no cash.

A lot of stuff goes to waste on construction sites and they always buy more than they need just in case.  Construction guys are always nice and will always give you a hand. 

Now something Kadizzle forgot to mention about pulling tape is that it has measurements marked on the tape.  This is to help the guys pulling cables know how far into the pipe the cable is.  Now if you need an accurate tape to measure one hundred feet or three thousand feet the tape works great.  One reason Kadizzle likes to keep a lot of the tape in the truck is so he can be pulled out of any stuck place even from a couple hundred yards away.  Two strands of the stuff would equal three tons of pulling strength.  The stuff is just plain handy.

Danger, Danger, political post

Just got back from Sam's Club. On each visit Kadizzle deliberately campaigns against Trump. Today Kadizzle had two good intense conversations with a black woman, and a black employee.  We discussed the Trump disaster at length.  The male employee was very sharp and had a lot of good observations. Kadizzle wanted to know from a minority person what went wrong.  Just like Kadizzle the employee said he went to bed thinking no way in hell would anyone with a brain vote for Trump.  He thought a landslide was assured for Hillary.  Kadizzle thought the same thing.  So will the minorities get out and rid us of this curse?  Well about half my contacts act like they don't give a damn, so it was very refreshing to talk to these two people.

Trump has reached a level  of insanity, stupidity, graft, and destruction even skeptics find hard to believe.  Trump's desire to destroy everything good is amazing, and there they are the idiots who still support him.  One thing that Kadizzle heard from a friend, and a person who has no use for Trump is " Well maybe he did a few good things".  Sure, but it is the old Hitler made the trains run on time routine.  Have you ever been to a timeshare presentation.  It sounds great, but you can sit there and see the fallacy, maybe.  A whole lot of people buy into the scam.  Trump is the ultimate con man.  Tell the dolts what they want to hear.  If they want to hear red today, and green tomorrow, just tell them what is popular at the moment.

It was very interesting getting a black mans perspective on politics. Kadizzle asked him to explain the black attitude.  Basically he said black people expect to suffer, and don't expect much to change.  Pretty sad when you think about it, but there must be a way to turn things around.

Trump's assault on the environment is beyond belief. The Kadizzles are on their way home from an incredibly scenic vacation.  Your typical American has no clue of the treasures in this country.  You will never know unless you get off your ass and look.  We, we own the land.  Two thirds of most Western states are publicly owned.  It is a treasure.  Trump and his rats want to steal our country and give it to their rich buddies.  You should at least go out and see what they want to steal.  At the Grand Canyon the haze often obstructs what was once a pristine view.  Trump is trying his best to make it worse.

Across the great divide

Here we are in Denver.  The American west is something every American should see.  The Kadizzles saw a truckload.  Utah still takes the prize.  No State has the scenery of Utah. We took an alternate route through some magnificent country. 

Taking a tent instead of our Earth Module was a mistake.  Too old to sleep on the ground and crawl out of a tent to pee at night.  There is something about the Grand Canyon that makes the wind come up every night.  Two people camping in neighboring sites had campfires.  Did not seem like a good idea and a ripe chance to start a forest fire.

Kadizzle was very lucky the Hudsons charged his ebike everyday, then when they took off the people on the North of us charged up the old ebike.  The North Rim is the place to go.  The view from the South Rim is better, but the slower pace and fewer people on the North Rim makes it a lot nicer.  The dispersed camping on the North Rim is wonderful, so many nice spots.  Perhaps we will take the Earth Module down there and do some serious exploring.  Saw a lot of great places to explore with the Yamaha.

On the way back.

Winky hiked across the Grand Canyon with Al, and Deb.  Kadizzle stayed on the North Rim and picked them up on the South Rim on Sunday.  The hikers experience 136 degree temperature at the bottom of the canyon.  That was in the sun.  Kadizzle did a lot of ebiking.  Deb, and Al are trying to complete the Arizona Trial in segments.  The AZ goes through the Grand Canyon.  The AZ is 800 miles long from Mexico to Utah.  Kadizzle has hiked and biked about fifty miles of it.   The biking on the AZ on the North Rim is wonderful. The trail is in amazing shape for bikes, and scenery is hard to beat.  One minor problem was a flat tire, but a park ranger gave Kadizzle a ride and solved the problem.  Met some wonderful people who let us share their great site overlooking the canyon.   We camped five miles off the main road.  Hike to a fire tower where  Edward Abby wrote some of his books.  That makes two fire towers we shared with him.  Here we sit in Greenriver.  This town looks like the depression never ended here.  Will give more details tomorrow.  Hope all Kadizzlites are doing well.

Over the mountain.

The wedding is over and Boulder Beer can return to business.  Some great food and some great toast to the new couple.  Funerals and weddings are not Kadizzle's favorite summer time pass time, but we got er done.  Took another amazing bike ride on the ebike about 15 miles around Boulder.  Such nice bike paths along creeks and through undeveloped land.

Today we are going to bust toward the Grand Canyon.  Mrs. Kadizzle is going to hike from one side to the other.  Old man Kadizzle will be the driver.  The water line at the Grand Canyon has broken and it may cause complications.

Have not been over the mountains in the summer in a long time.  Thank ya Jesus we are not pulling the RV. 

Absolutely amazing how the NRA has such a grip on the country.  The fact that school children can be shot up everyday and no one cares is amazing.  Trump and his worthless gang of lickspittles in North Dakota make puking seem pleasant.  How people can be so brain dead.  Seeing the pathetic Republicans on TV defending the 2nd amendment is another painful sight.  When a member of my family is shot you can count on Kadizzle to go full blown nuts, but why wait until it hits home.  That is what is not understandable.  Why do we fail so miserably to solve a problem before it hits home?