My Brave Friend

 You have to admire him. Emil Kashuntz was down on the main artery in town waving the " Jail Trump" sign. Emil is 80, gets up and runs two or three miles every day. Kadizzle went down to provide moral support for a man who really does not need it. Emil loves his protest, and a lot of people are uplifted by his willingness to point to the evil that is the Republican party. 

The fun part is the reaction of the steady stream of traffic. There are honks, waves, smiles, and thumbs up. Also of course you have the mean sneers, and middle fingers from the cultist. We just yell " I love you at the dolts". Emil may be accomplishing more than he thinks. Two people pulled into the nearby parking lot to express their support. Kadizzle had good conversations with them. Payson, Arizona has a terrible infestation of Trump dolts. So many people remark how brave Emil is to protest in the land of guns, stupidity, and Fox News. 

Kadizzle hopes the Republicans tasked to spy on the blog are reading this. A message to the cowardly Trump cult gang. If you have a problem with old Kadizzle or Emil come out of the dark. Walk up and tell your side of the story. Tell how you believe Fox News, tell us about Fake News. You cultist know you cannot defend your ignorance. You take comfort in staying with the other cultist that reinforce your insanity. Be brave like Emil come out in the light. Your underhanded tricks are pathetic. One of you called the police and said Emil was causing a traffic problem. What a lowlife lie. The police came and checked on Emil. The police told Emil he was fine and doing nothing wrong. To top it off the police told Emil if anyone gave him trouble to let them know. So you cowards hide in the bushes and throw stones, that is the Trump game. You don't show up for the hearings, and if you do you plead the fifth amendment. Our country was not founded by the kind of people who wave the Confederate flag. Scholarly men started this democracy that idiots are tearing apart. 

The mother of all rains

Rain in the southwest is far different from other places. Monsoon season is upon us. Last night the looming clouds rolled over the house and gave a prediction of what was about to happen. Strange clouds they were lit up red on the bottom from sunshine that managed to creep under them. 

 Then with trumpet blast the storm let loose. A sediment pond and catchment basin is part of our backyard. It is a small pond about 25 feet by 100 feet. Normally it is bone dry. The pond filled instantly and water washed the front yard and side yard into the backyard. 

Flash Floods are a phenomenon to see. Years ago near Tucson Kadizzle got to see water two feet deep in a wall roar down a stream near the Catalina Mountains. We were stuck in our camp spot for two days until the water receded. 

Looking at the desert landscape one would think the water would sink into the sand, not so, the water runs right off, and moves the sand with it. We put tons of denigrated granite all over the yard, now it is all over everywhere. 

So today will be cleanup day. Mrs. Kadizzle is out there now, she could not wait. There is enough clay in this dirt to make a very special mud that you could make pots out of right now. Kadizzle often wondered where the natives got the mud for their pots. The question has been answered. 

So much just does not matter

Kadizzle is a certified slob, and pretty good at being lazy. To get certified one must not mess with petty things nor get concerned about them. This creates a massive problem when Kadizzle deals with niggy fiddles. What is the order for forks? Does the salad fork go on the left the right on the inside or outside? Niggy Fiddles care about these things. Kadizzle just cares if the fork can pick up food and shove it in his mouth. Kadizzle used to hunt with a good friend who was a Niggy Fiddle. The fiddler could not just pick up his gun and go out the door, he had to fiddle around for thirty minutes before we could go. If the home of a niggy fiddle caught on fire they would have to do the dishes before the ran out the door so the fire department would not gossip about how unkempt their home was.

There is a historical story about a woman who was married to the president. Cannot remember which first lady it was. Anyway she did not like the imprint of shoes on the carpets in the White House. You know what Kadizzle means. You just vacuumed the carpet, and all the pile is nice, then someone disturbs it by walking across it.  The first lady had the staff of the White House constantly making sure there were not impressions in the carpet. 

A key part of life is deciding what matters. Most things just don't matter. Some people can see that and others cannot. This creates two camps that are in constant battle. There is definitely something nice about orderliness.  However, one must be aware it often creates an illusion. Grocery stores go to great lengths to do facing. What is facing? One time Kadizzle asked his friend who owned a grocery store. Facing is when all the product in the front line is neatly put in a row. This gives the impression there is plenty of product and makes the store look very neat. Sometimes you will find if you look the store is just about out of the product. 

How much time time is wasted with things that just don't matter? A good example is watching a craftsman. In many instances the clutter and mess that takes place during construction would drive a niggy fiddle crazy, but in the end the craftsman produces a work of wonder. Now the craftsman gets the job done quickly, but if the niggy fiddle did the job the fiddler would have to stop at every stage and clean up, not the craftsman, he knows the simplest and best way to do it is to get the job done and clean up afterwards. Rarely will you see a niggy fiddle get anything done quickly. 

How many times in life have you seen someone watch a niggy fiddle work and get so frustrated they just jump in and do the job because they cannot stand to see the silly niggy fiddle take forever. Here is a classic case. You are going to hire someone to clean your house. You are a niggy fiddle, so you clean the house before they come. 

Orderliness does give some people comfort, but think of nature, nature works on a random mess, but it works. There might be a general order to the universe, but it is not up to the standards of a niggy fiddle. The stars are not evenly spaced, and in a line. All the waves do not break the same, yet the wave is in a line. What does that tell you. Sometimes order is essential, geese fly in a V formation. There is a reason for that, but the geese do not walk in a line by the lake. To summarize, there is a time an place for neatness and orderliness, and the ability to discern is crucial for a happy life. Now Mrs. Kadizzle is going to go nuts if Kadizzle does not do the dishes before Marty gets here. He might think we are deplorables. 

Can we learn from the Stoics?

 It would be nice to be a better person, but it is not easy. Kadizzle has recently been studying the Stoics to see if he can improve his life performance. These old Greeks had some good advice. Let's start with focus on what you can control. That is very good advice. How much time is spent trying to manipulate things we cannot control. Value time more than money or possessions. Amen to that one. Remember you have the power to have NO opinion. Think about that one. Don't suffer imagined troubles. Wow, Kadizzle knows some people that should have that one tattooed on their arm. The guy Kadizzle has been getting this advice from actually has some reminder tattoos on his arm. 

Kadizzle is terribly guilty of this one. Two ears, one mouth...for a reason. Kadizzle talks way too much. Don't compare yourself to others. The truth is you are you and you will not be others. Also if you decide to be the other you have to take everything. Say you want to be as smart as a fat guy. Then you have to take the fat with the smart. Maybe just being yourself would be better. The best revenge is not to be like that. Don't be a Republican. Put every impression, emotion, to the test before acting on it. In the world of Kadizzle that means asking for a twenty second pause from the wife. 

Every person is an opportunity for kindness. Now there is a good one to think about. It never fails that if you do a kind deed for someone you feel good about it. 

Don't be afraid to ask for help. This is a big one. Kadizzle has asked so many people for help and it has improved life immensely. There is a trick to this one. You must render help when asked. Ideally you help the person that helped you. 

What is bad for the hive, is bad for the bee. This one is a little bit mysterious, but it seems right. It seems to mean do what is good for society. Trump needs this one tattooed on his ass with a blow torch. 

Don't judge other people. Master this one and you can fly. Forgive, forgive, forgive, not bad advice, usually works well, but not always that easy. 

Prepare for life's inevitable setbacks. According to the teacher this means anticipate what can go wrong and be prepared to deal with it. Yup, we are going to drop dead. Do it in a place where they can move your body out easily. 

If someone offends you, realize you are complicit in taking offense. That is pretty self explanatory. It is important to realize being offended is in your control. Kadizzle has been called a lot of offensive things. If someone tells Kadizzle he is an idiot, Kadizzle tries to explain to them Kadizzle is the referee, not them. 

Don't make your problems worse by bemoaning them. Too many fall into that trap. 

Accept success without arrogance, handle failure with indifference. Not bad advice. Ego is the enemy. Can't argue with that one. Last, but not least, stillness is the way. 

Now for the teachers final advice. " Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it. " From old Epictetus. Kadizzle's latin name is Laziticus. 

John Prine - Some Humans Ain't Human ( Listen to the words carefully)

Down by the Lake

Old Kadizzle was riding the bike down by the lake when the rain started to pour. Kadizzle took shelter under the roof of the recreation building. Soon he was joined by a young sixth grade fisherman. Sitting in the rain we got to know each other. We talked fishing, school, and Kadizzle found out the young guy liked math. Kadizzle tried to give him a lesson in binary numbers. 

In young people there is so much hope. The world is in front of them. This brings us to a simple question? What are we leaving them? The answer is a mess, a big mess. The old flumpers like Kadizzle have taken too much from the world, and given too little back. Those now in their seventies have squandered the forest, the oil, the very air we breath. That poor kid will inherit a mess. Last but not least we have destroyed a political system, and a judicial system that used to work. 

Why do we like children, why do they always seem to make us happy? Children represent hope. Almost every morning Kadizzle sees his grandchildren on facetime. Sylvie has blossomed into an amazing teenager. Quinn, and Evie are growing like weeds, learning to swim, draw, read, and explore the world. What have we done? Can we go to the grave knowing our selfish lives have squandered their future? Now we are on the verge of a Hitler style insanity. 

Sitting in the parking lot of the grocery store watching the people come and go it was obvious, most of us are overweight. Our bellies, our butts, and our bodies lumber under the weight of prosperity. We overfeed ourselves, our dogs, and we feed our minds on Fox News. We eat the wrong food, believe the wrong lies, and delude ourselves everything is OK. This may not end well. The very planet we live on may puke us out. Way back in the depression people were forced to wake up. We did, but now we are asleep again. The last time there was a way to bail out the boat and patch the hole. Maybe not this time. So lets walk to the refrigerator, pull out a beer have some chips, and watch Fox New, then go to church and turn it all over to Jesus. Works every time. 

Emil Kashuntz

 My dear new friend Emil Kashuntz has been down on the busy highway in Payson, Az expressing his views. Emil has been enjoying doing the right thing. Due to recent problems with the Republican underground Kadizzle has not been able to join him. He should not be there alone. If anyone wants to join Emil please contact Kadizzle. The time has come for good men to act. Kadizzle thinks there is a glacial move toward ridding ourselves of Trump and his infestation of liar, idiots, cultist, and willing dolts. More brave people are needed. God bless Emil. Due to Republican attacks aliases have to be used. Republicans falsly claimed Emil was causing traffic to swerve, just another Republican lie. However, the Payson police observed Emil and found he was causing no problem. The Payson police informed Emil of the complaint, and told him what he was doing was fine. The police told Emil if anyone caused him a problem to let them know. The underhanded deviousness of the local Republicans is something Satan would be proud of. They never miss a chance to lie and distort. 

It will not rain

 Rain falls East, North, and West, but it will not fall  on us. It rained on the East side of town, but it will not rain on us. Let's be religious, and assume God is pissed off. In the good old days God had an anger management problem. Remember when he killed almost everyone on the planet? It was over some simple thing like an apple or a craven image. The Bible is full of incidents when the good lord got mad and wiped out children, towns, or sent plagues. 

So God is mad at Payson, AZ. You can't really blame him. Surely he looks down and sees Trump flags. One thing about God is when he gets angry he has no discretion. Our yard is dry, and so is the yard of the guy who has Trump flags on the fence, but no, no God will not take the time to sprinkle our yard and send locust to his. 

Now if God can get mad at us, are we allowed to get mad at God? What was God thinking when he made people different colors? Sure it was fun to make a black one, a yellow one, and to lazy to color the white ones, but anyone could see this would lead to a lot of problems. 

One thing God did that makes Kadizzle really mad is his failure to update his manual. Sure some rules on slavery were good back in the pyramid days, but come on now God we need some new rules setting an eight hour work day, and child labor laws. If God would update his manual the Republicans would not have a heyday doing it. 

God walked off and left grease boiling on the stove. God got bored with his little Earth experiment. He created a bunch of stuff and got distracted. Now he is in another part of the universe flooding other planets and spreading new forms of petulance. The great hope of the religious is God is going to come back. Why should he? No one returns to a burnt down house, a wrecked car, or an Earth infested with Republicans. We are made in the image of God, and therefor God is made in the image of us. We make messes, and walk away from them. Here we are. 

Back in Payson

 Back to the usual. Inclined to rant a little, so skip this if you want. The evil of Republicans never stops. The NYT today has an article about how the right is using sheriffs to mess up elections. Now, maybe a little good news. The people who are not in the fog may be waking up. When we were up at the rim of the Grand Canyon six of us including an older couple watched the Jan 6th hearing. That is good news. Cissie and Kadizzle have been following the evil, but the other four are newer to the battle. Back here in Payson we met a couple newly alerted to the Trump danger. Hopefully the sleeping giant of conscious people will come to life. 

Meanwhile the planet is burning. Nothing is being done, and again the Republicans want to pour more gas on the fire. You cannot grow forever. Our economy is based on a falsehood. Put flies in a jar, rats in a cage or anything you chose. The cage, the jar can only support so many rats, flies or people. The Earth is a globe. Republicans have not come to grip with that. The Earth can sustain just a certain number of people in comfort, but we are in a plane where the seats are getting smaller and closer together. 

Back from the Grand Canyon

 Back after about four nights at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. Most tourist never visit the North Rim. However, to Kadizzle it is the best. Very few tourist and a vast wilderness with immense opportunities to enjoy. Debby and Al our old traveling friends set their fifth wheel camper right on the edge of the canyon. You cannot do that on the south side. There is way more to the Grand Canyon than most people realize. We rode the ebikes for ten miles along the rim. Our old traveling friend Cliff is working at the gift shop on the south side and got us some good deals on t shirts and a new cap. Actually we have about four traveling friends working the summer at the north rim. 

The national parks all are much more than they appear to the casual tourist. It took us years to fully explore Zion. Way back in the late 60's Kadizzle did the " I been there tour". You get to a famous landmark get out gaze around for twenty minutes and get back in the car. Since then we have spent 22 years doing it right. 

Always you meet new interesting people. Jessica just bought a tiny utility trailer that she turned into her RV.  Might small and cramped, but she has been in it for 8 months. There are so many variations of RV living. Way out on Marble Point we found and older couple living in a small zippidi do da expensive adventure trailer. It was small, but had every bell and whistle including an on demand water heater. We constantly follow the new trends in campers. Like fools we tent camped at the canyon. It was not that bad, but we should have towed the monster up there. The bike riding was the highlight. In all we did about forty miles. 

Gas prices have kept people at home. Tourist were down by a third, and that was nice. In summary if you go to the Grand Canyon for the first time get hold of us. We have been there about five times, and have many friends who work there. 

The Human Brain

 Often the human brain is a puzzling thing to watch. Kadizzle always is amazed to see people speeding toward a traffic light that is red only to slam on the brake. How does a brain like that work? What kind of brain says to the owner, hurry up and stop. It does not make a bit of sense anyway you look at it. Obviously if you just let the car drift toward the red light the car would lose momentum, slow down, get there a little later, and maybe by then the light would be green. A brains should be able to figure that out, but no there is part of the brain that cannot conceive of such an event. Hurry up and wait. 

You will see the same brain on the road. The same brain runs up behind the moving car ahead and brakes to keep from hitting it. The brain likes an illusion. The illusion of power is addictive. You are nobody, but the brain wants to be somebody. What kind of brain wants to drive around town making a loud noise with a truck or motorcycle. A small brain. What kind of brain believes Trump won the election? The same small brain. What will destroy mankind? You got it right, the small brain. 

So we are in a world of the functioning brains vs the small brains, who will win?  Kadizzle sees both sides. There are a lot of small brains. On the other hand the people capable of in depth deep thought might save us from ourselves. Kadizzle is addicted to reading reality. There may be a new reality on the horizon. Yesterday Kadizzle looked into batteries that never need to be charged. Nuclear batteries that can run your watch for 28,000 years will soon be available. This seems like it would be untrue, but remember we have had nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers that can run for 15 years on one charge. Wow. There is science on the horizon that may save us from us. In the meantime the simple minded are getting worse, and there seems to be more of them. 

Jesus was a drug dealer.

 Kadizzle just returned from the Jesus thrift store. That is then nickname Kadizzle gives the store. It is a store run for x drug people. Kadizzle used to call Robert, who worked there Jesus. The store gets some good stuff that it sells reasonable. When Jesus was there you could bargain with him. The Jesus at the thrift store probably weighed about 250 or better and was about the same height as Kadizzle. He was from the Pima tribe down by the border. He had long black hair and a very dark complexion.  Jesus went on to work at a hamburger place in town, that is part of the program to rehabilitate the drug people. The lady at the store who is high up in the program to rehabilitate these people said Jesus never had a job, before he had a terrible motorcycle wreck. Jesus told me he was unconscious for months. That is when he woke up and found out he was Jesus. Kadizzle asked mother Mary or whoever she is what Jesus did before he came to the "program".  Mother Mary explained Jesus was a drug dealer and never had a job in his life. It was always fun to go into the store and shoot the breeze with Jesus, and Kadizzle misses him. Payson is on a big North South drug route, and the town has too many drug problems. 

Up on the rim

Arizona is nothing like most people think it is. Contrary to the vision most people have Arizona is full of mountains, trees, and a landscape that is not desert. Yesterday we took a bike ride up in the mountains at around 7,000 ft or more. Elk, and mountain lakes were on the trail. Some time back Kadizzle flew into Arizona on a clear day. The plane was low as it flew over where we now live. Looking down Kadizzle saw the incredible ruggedness of the area. Payson is surrounded by what everyone calls the Rim. The rim is an escarpment that runs for miles. Yesterday we walked along the edge and could see off in the distance the Four Peaks. If you get some elevation you can see sixty miles away mountains and peaks. 

Payson is booming with people trying to escape Phoenix heat. The world is melting. Like the Titanic the band is playing as the ship sinks. Americans have become oblivious to the mess we are in. Like the old Mad Magazine said " What me worry?".  Ignore it, it will go away. For some things that works fine, but when you planet is melting and Joe Machin cheers because he is making money in the process, you have a problem.  Republicans are selling sand for other Republicans to stick their head in. 

 A big deal in Payson is finding a place for the peasants to live. The peasants do all the work for the nobility. There are not enough straw shacks, and the rent for the current shacks is too high. This happens in any nice area where the Nobility has second homes. Vail, Aspen, and elsewhere don't want the peasants in town. The usual solution is to have a nearby town full of rundown, ramshackle housing for the workers. 

The secret society grows

Perhaps this tale has been told before, but Kadizzle was in Alpine, Arizona and saw a sign in front of a eating place that said " Secret society meets here at 6:30". Slowly the secret society has been growing in Payson. Last night we met two new members. The Trump disaster awakened them. They confessed they did not pay attention, but were so shocked by Jan 6th that they have awakened. That was refreshing. Sad and sort of amazing, but most of the awakened people in Payson like to lay low. When you are not a Nazi, in Nazi Germany it is best people think to move in the shadows. 

As usual this triggered a thought and a memory. When Kadizzle was in high school he had a black friend named Arthur Little. Kadizzle learned a lot from this skinny, strong little black guy. Arthur used to recite the poem " I am nobody, who are you, are you nobody too?". It was so appropriate for the time.  Kadizzle felt like Arthur.

In Payson if you are out of the cloud, you are nobody. The problem is there are a lot more nobodies than the other no bodies realize. The nobodies allow the Trump somebodies to dominate even though they are the minority. What a strange world. 

The Original Rebel Flag

 Sometimes you get the impression a person is just not right. In the grocery store with the wife Kadizzle observed a fellow with an orange and black shirt on. He looked like some sort of person that would hold a stop and go sign for roadwork. As he walked by Kadizzle noticed his shirt said " The Original Rebel Flag".  This was printed over the 13 stars and stripes flag. 

This confused Kadizzle was it a patriotic message or some sort of right wing stuff. Kadizzle asked the man what the printing meant. Kadizzle mentioned he did not like the Confederate Flag. Kadizzle asked the dinger what he thought about people breaking into the Capitol carrying Confederate flags. The clouds lifted. The Hooplehead said they did not break into the Capitol, they were waved in by the police. You can watch the videos. The videos Kadizzle  watched showed people breaking windows and doors. Another head shaking moment. Yup, there are dingers out there who looked at the Capitol videos and saw the police welcoming dingers. The wonders of right wing media. 

Your assignment

 This morning if you are reading this you need instructions. First, watch the video below, then read the post about the secret society. Any questions?

Which Side are you on?

The Secret Society

Here we are in the year 2022 and things have become more insane than most of could ever have imagined they would. Kadizzle now lives among the strange mountain people of the Trump Cult, but there is a secret society. They are the Molly Maguires. Who were the Molly Maguires? They were a secret organization of coal miners supposedly responsible for acts of terrorism in the coal fields of Pennsylvania and West Virginia, in the period from 1862 to 1876. The group named itself after a widow who led a group of Irish antilandlord agitators in the 1840s.

One by one Kadizzle has met the members of the secret society. They are good people opposed to the Trump Cult. The secret society does not have a name, but maybe they could be called the Kadizzlites. The Trump Cult checks on this blog, so Kadizzle has to be careful about using names. The Trump Cult already lied about someone Kadizzle mentioned. To protect the innocent Kadizzle will just call this guy Emil, after the famous Emil Kashuntz. 

Emil has become very enthused about fighting the Hoopleheads. To this end Emil decided to do a one man protest on the main Thorofare. Emil made a sign that read "Jail Trump".  Yesterday was Emil's second one man protest. Wait, a good woman, Molly will be her secret name, joined Emil. On day one a Trump Cultist called the police and claimed Emil was causing traffic problems. Strangely a policeman showed up and observed Emil. The policeman concluded Emil did not cause any problem and the the Trump Cultist had lied. The policeman assured Emil he was fine to protest and further told Emil that if he need the police to protect his right to protest they would be there for him. 

Now a word about protesting in Payson. It seems to be a bit of a popular sport. The women have been on the street fighting for their rights, and the Cult sometimes dances around with signs in front of their nest. Protestors hold signs for their cause and cars go by. You honk and give a thumbs up if you agree, and if you are a Trump person that disagrees you shout obscenities, give the finger, and act like your having a Trump tantrum. 

Emil reports about half the people driving by supported the concept of Trump going to jail. The other half consisting of the Trump cultist yelled, and were vulgar. Emil is older than Kadizzle and was delighted with his protest. 

As loyal readers know Kadizzle was an underground coal miner at one time. One thing Kadizzle has come to love are good coal mining songs. A favorite is an old union song with the words " which side are you on".  Well, that is the question. The secret society of Kadizzlites is growing. One by one Kadizzle is finding out who is conscious and willing to oppose the cult. 

There is hope.

The Cult

 Above is a picture of the Krisna Temple near my hometown of Wheeling, West Virginia. Kadizzle has written about it in the past. The story is unbelievable. Murder, sex trafficing, drug trafficing, and a host of other crimes were committed by the Krisna, yet the cult still thrives. If you want to read more go to a site called Weelunk. Also if you want to really get the story a local police officer wrote a book called " Monkey on a Stick", about the corruption. My older brother was a contractor with heavy equipment. He did work for Swami. Swami invited Tom to discuss some work he wanted done. My brother sat with Swami and was fed grapes. Swami wanted Tom to lower the bottom half of a concrete septic tank into Wheeling Creek so the compound could pump water from the creek. It was a heavy piece of concrete and Tom told Swami it might fall and break and he could not guarantee the success of the project.  With a backhoe Tom tried to lower the concrete vault. Sure enough it tipped and broke into pieces. Turning to Swami Tom said " That's the way it goes Swami".

When our children were very small, we took them to the temple. It is an insane edifice in the hills of West Virginia. It is like a golden palace from India. It is all marble and gold paid for with the criminal activities.  Our children were scared by the strange building, and rightfully so. Kadizzle will always remember one thing about the palace, there was a shrine to Swami who passed away. The shrine had Swami's high top Converse tennis shoes on a velvet cloth. The tennis shoes were encased in a glass container. 

Another bizarre part of the temple was an elaborate kitchen where food was prepared for the dead Swami. In front of the dead man's marble statue food is placed every day. Religion allows insanity to run rampant. If you ever want to know how off the rails people can get study this cult in the hills of West Virginia. 

Another Wilderness Day

 Kadizzle took off again this morning into the vast wilderness. The object as to find an Indian ruin, no luck. The start of the trip as by bike. As Kadizzle put the bike down he became enthralled with ants moving a piece of tin foil. Two ants were tugging and moving the metal ten times their weight. What were they going to do with the shinny metal? Most amazing was one ant would stop pulling and run ahead to check out the rout. He would come back and they would go again. Now this must mean some sort of intelligence way more than you would expect from ants. Kadizzle went off on foot and came back about an hour later. The ants must have taken the metal into their compound. Imagine size of an ant brain, yet they seem to work together far better than humans. No doubt the ants are socialist. None of them had fancy cars or other status symbols. Sharing seemed to be mandator. Kadizzle waited, but there were no ant billionaires taking rocket rides. They do have a queen. Since no abortions are allowed all she does is have babies. As Kadizzle walked about he noticed ants everywhere. Once humans wipe themselves out no doubt the ants will still be here. Living in bomb shelters surely they will survive. 

My side is winning, so we must be right.

Kadizzle fired some facts right at the heart of a Trumper. What was the result? Shirly sent back some polls that showed a lot of people still buy the Trump nonsense. Kadizzle always puzzles how do these people think? Is the world flat or do we live on a globe? Let's take a poll. It took a long time before the world became round. Polls showed for a long time the Earth was flat. Somehow people became convinced. When someone sailed west and came back from the east it was pretty convincing and the polls changed. 

 Kadizzle sent Shirly the complete synopsis of the Jan 6th hearings. One would think that would be the ship sailing west. Nope, it is all a staged fake news stunt by the Democrats. A lot of people think Jesus walked on water and was the sun of a virgin. The polls have still not proven otherwise, however the polls seem to be shifting. 

Kadizzle always thinks of the old hillbillies that wore copper bracelets to cure arthritis. It must have worked a lot of people did it. How about batteries? If you ever messed with batteries and old people you probably know they told you never to put a car battery directly on the concrete floor. The battery should be placed on wood rather than directly on the floor. How did that get started? The original old batteries were not in plastic cases.  What ever they were made from might get wet on the floor and cause them to leak, so it made sense not to put them on the concrete, but something changed. The old farts never knew why you put batteries on wood, but everyone did it. To this day you will find people who insist on putting a couple of two by fours under a battery they are storing in the garage. That is how the Republican mind works. You do it because everyone at the coffee shop does it. You never change, or figure out why, you just do what most of the people around you do, or what dad did.  Hard to go forward when you learn the wrong lessons from the past. 

The Spanish Ruin

 Yesterday Kadizzle was up early. The notion to take an ebike ride came into his mind. With the bike on the truck Kadizzle headed down into the valley of the East Verde river. In an instant you leave civilization behind and are in a vast wilderness. A steep road leads up to the Spanish Ruin. Why they call it the Spanish Ruin is a mystery. It is actually a native American site that had nothing to do with the Spanish. Someone concocted the tale it as a Spanish fort or town. 

The road up to the ruin is closed but you can walk or bike it. The road is so steep Kadizzle preferred to walk and push the bike in many parts. Actually the trip was not to the ruin, Kadizzle had been there before. Kadizzle wanted to see where the road went. He found out. The road went nowhere. Well, it did end up by the Verde River at a broken down dilapidated ranch like farmstead. 

Whomever was living there was leading one of the most isolated live on the planet. Kadizzle was announced by hound dogs. Solar panels ere randomly placed everywhere. No humans emerged from any of the ramshackle dwellings. It is hard to describe how isolated this place was. If the resident had to run to the neighbor for a cup of sugar it would be a long trip of at least an hour. The road in to the place looked like the only one who used it was the rancher at the end of the road. He must have a key because the access is blocked five miles from his domicile with a gate that is locked. 

Perhaps Kadizzle is losing his mind but on two occasions he thought he heard voices. Once as where the Arizona Trail crosses the road. Kadizzle thought he heard hikers talking, but when he hailed them he got no response.  On the way back at a magnificent observation point Kadizzle stopped to take in the view of thousands of acres of wilderness. This as near the Spanish Ruin and Kadizzle again heard people talking. Again no one was in sight. Someone could have come to explore the ruin, but that made no sense. There were no tracks, and the only way in or out was on the road. Kadizzle would have seen signs of anyone in the area. 

Arizona and New Mexico have some vast areas of unoccupied wilderness. The quiet and peacefullness is amazing. There is always one exception, that is the planes in the sky. No matter where you go there will always be on jet overhead.  

Whenever one wanders back into these wild places the question arises, how did the natives live here. No doubt they did. The area was perfect in many ways. There was water, good places to plant, and abundant game. On the way out Kadizzle encountered elk. Native people followed rivers.  You will never find a stream that flows year round that does not have signs of early occupation. 

Democracy hanging by a thread

 Never has our democracy been in such peril. Republicans have pulled out all the stops. The fact that they have been caught in their lies and insurrection has not deterred them. Nothing is below them. Remember J. Edgar Hoover? Old J. Edgar blackmailed everyone. J. Edgar used our own government to carry out his evil. Republicans have adopted his tactics. Richard Nixon used the IRS to attack anyone who opposed his dishonesty. Today we have Trump trying to use the same tactics against the former FBI leaders. 

Kadizzle thought the Republicans in North Dakota were underhanded and devious, but they are amateurs compared to Arizona. The television ads for Republican candidates would make you puke. Everyone says they are Trump's buddies and about half of them are in their add carrying a gun or firing one. Our country is in deep trouble. If the informed well educated people think the Trump threat will go away on its own, think again. The next election is looking like a disaster. The old tactics of lies and fear are stoking the Hoopleheads. Sit on your hands and watch our country disappear. 

Don't underestimate these people. Trump has called people to witness tamper who are going to go before the January 6th committee. What is scary are the Americans who think " What me worry".  The very basis of our country is under attack. If Trump is not put on trial we are gone. Everything a lot of people died for is over. Stupidity will win. On a personal basis Kadizzle has been attacked by the lying cabal of the Trump Cult. If you chose to do nothing, if you chose to sit by idly and watch it happen you are worthy of what you will get. Against you are two types. First are those who are well aware of what they are doing. Second are the dupes. The dupes are manipulated by the ones with control of right wing media. If you watched the Jan 6th hearings you can see exactly how the Republicans play the game. Intimidation is a key tactic. 

You Got Mail

Since Kadizzle learned he is being stalked by the local Tea Party Republicans he thought they might enjoy some Heather Cox Richardson. This morning Kadizzle emailed the troglodytes her latest column. In the subject line Kadizzle put " You will not read this". They will not. First it is a long post. That means you have to concentrate, and actually read factual material. Fox News fans don't do that sort of thing. 

How many  right wing Hoopleheads do you think watched the hearings yesterday. Remember the witch in the Wizard of Oz. Kadizzle remembers the witch melting when they poured water on her. That is exactly what happens to Republicans when you pour truth on them. They stay away from the truth. Let me know if you had the courage to read the post I sent you Republicans. 

This brings up the question, can they be cured. Kadizzle only knows one case of a complete cure. A good friend used to be hard core Republican. That friend had a bad habit of reading and thinking which lead to the cure. Now, that friend has done a lot of good fighting the evil of Republicans. Kadizzle was blamed for causing the children to be liberals. 

The Payson Tea Party

 Although most of the world has moved on, a group of right wing lunatics still meets in Payson, Arizona. They suck up any nonsensical thing they can find. These are the people who think Trump won, you need a gun to go to the grocery store, and there is always someone after you. The truth is very flexible with these deplorables. Today Kadizzle checked out their website. Wow, they have every insane conspiracy theory invented. The assertions they make are absolutely crazy. Biden is in cahoots with China. So sad these people were sent to school at taxpayer expense to learn to read. What do they read, nonsense. The idea of research and checking facts goes over their heads. The poor dolts want a simple explanation for everything. The lawnmower will not start, Biden ruined the spark plug. Logic just does not penetrate their skulls. Anyone who is educated, or disagrees with them is a communist, socialist, or liberal. Although their hero the Trumpsters sent people to attack the Capitol these troglodytes say it is the liberals and Democrats that want to destroy the country. 

As this is written Kadizzle is watching the January 6th hearings. Doubtful any of the Payson tea party is. The hearings prove beyond any doubt Trump is a liar. Of course as was stated on Sienfield " If you believe it, it is true". The Tea Party in Payson believes by that standard. The truth is not affected by reality, science, or data. The truth according to the Tea Party is who ever is the liar you wish to believe. 

Jesus was a social drinker

 Now Jesus was a social drinker

He never drank alone
He never partied at a strip club
Keeping his woman up at home
Or overstayed his welcome
Or threw up in your sink
Nah, Jesus was never late to work, man
And he always pulled his weight

Now, Jesus he was cool
He could take or leave the stuff
And if he got too loose
Well then he knew he'd had enough

Jesus wasn't Irish
Just imagine if he was
He might have written poetry and verse
And enjoyed a pint of Guinness every day for lunch

He never had a laptop
A spiral notebook or even a pen
But he wrote a best-selling novel, yes he did
Disappeared and was never heard from again

He was an all-around decent dude
But he had his share of rough nights
And the more I learn about him
Well, the more respect I have for the guy

Rain

These blasted mountains desperately need rain, perhaps today it will come. The lady Kadizzle is married to has gone rock crazy. She ain't no lady, she's my wife. It is a miracle, but we have been together for close to fifty years. Anyone who hears us fight and squabble would wonder how we made it for a day. Back to the rocks. The little lady, all one hundred ten pounds or so has become obsessed with filling a drainage by our new home. This means she scours the woods for pretty rocks. A pretty rock must have moss on it. The peanut, aka Jasper Littlebottom said she moved 7 wheelbarrows last evening. Meanwhile Kadizzle rode the bike down to the park and saw a couple elk enjoying the grass and ignoring the people. Three of the giants pulled out some plants in our yard a couple days ago. Magnificent animals to have in the back yard. 

The rats will be on display at the Jan 6th hearing today. One of the most despicable rodents known to man will be testifying. Steve Bannon will no doubt put on a show. Bannon could be Trump's twin. Bannon is like the local Republicans, lying and deceit come naturally. Look at the crowd Trump hangs with, liars, crooks, cheats, and delusional power grabbers, yet the Hoopleheads cannot see through it. 

Fooling the simple minded goes way back. Egyptians got the simple minded to pile up rocks. Churches have bilked the Hoopleheads out of billions. The Mormons are promising the simple minded their own planet if they just turn over 10 percent of their income. Humans love being mislead. 

Accidently getting smarter.

Kadizzle knows and talks to a lot of people. Most of Kadizzle's more intelligent friends are readers. Unless you read romance novels, mysteries, and other trash, it would be hard to stay stupid. Intelligent people read. Hoopleheads are very careful about what they read and let go into their brain. Trumpers don't read anything that might change their brick like minds. Ask a Trumper if they read anything well written. Universally they will tell you anything that disagrees with them is fake news. Did you ever change you mind? Nope, Fox News keeps me on track. 

 Now for the saddest part. How many Hoopleheads don't even read the local paper, watch any national news, or do anything to investigate reality? Ask a Hooplehead a few simple questions. Did you watch the Jan 6th hearing? Nope, it is all stacked against my hero Donald Trump. Did you read the paper about how 400 families now own half of America. Nope you cannot trust anything you disagree with. The level of ignorance in our country has reached epidemic proportions. What happened to education? Republicans are attacking the truth in libraries at school, and on the air. The truth is poison to Republicans. Life is simple. If you have a problem more than likely it is caused by Biden, liberals or socialist. Of course the immigrant army attacking on the border also has to be thrown in. 

Speaking of immigrants, there is an amazing article in the NYT today demonstrating with data that immigrants are moving up the economic ladder at twice the rate of white Americans. But, but, that is false news. Of course, it just does not work with Republican racism. 

Ride through the Forest

We came back from the higher elevation where there was rain and cooler temperatures. Took a nice ebike ride through the forest. A vast network of trails made for some enjoyable peddling. We met up with our friends camped in the forest. They eat no meat, but made us a wonderful meal of sweet potatoes and cauliflower cooked on the grill. 

Back in the land of the Hoopleheads the sun just managed to come up. A few clouds, but it will get up to 97 today. Kadizzle has wondered what summer in Arizona would be like. There have been some hot days, but generally it is tolerable here in the mountains. The mountains are packed with second homes of people trying to escape the heat in Phoenix. 

Traveling around the country as we do we see how many second homes there are. The idea of homeless people, and a housing shortages seems bizarre. Thousand of homes sit empty waiting for some wealthy person to use them. The problem is not shortage, it is resource allocation.  One thing you notice a lot in most places are very nice homes seemingly hidden in private compounds. The Hoopleheads have no idea of how well the well to do live. 

The news is full of Steve Bannon testifying. Just cannot imagine that rat telling the truth. More than likely he will be pleading the fifth like all Trump's gangsters. 

This Baby may Kill you (enlarge by clicking on the picture)

 

Good Morning Republicans

Last night Kadizzle affirmed the local Republicans read this blog. So good morning you diviants. Lying and distortion is the stock in trade of the Republicans. Kadizzle just learned how the Republicans arbitrarily claimed Kadizzle had a co-conspirator when he engaged the gunslingers at the Republican headquarters. They just made it up. That is they way they work. It is the Fox News standard. Just make it up and put it out there for the cult. OK, Republican readers put on your glasses and read this carefully. No one, no one but good old Kadizzle confronted you idiots about your stand on guns. Kadizzle had no help, no inspiration, nor any outside influence whatsoever. However, the lying cabal accused and innocent person of being involved. 

One fun thing about this blog is the fact that the Republicans read it to cause problems for Kadizzle. That means Kadizzle can insult the simple minded idiots in the Trump cult. Last night Kadizzle listened to the man running for secretary of state as a Democrat. He is terrific, a wonderful speaker. He made one good point. If we don't stand for democracy the Republicans will destroy it. The dolts at Republican headquarters cannot see a dictatorship coming. Dear dolts reading this, watch the Jan 6 hearings. Your ears will fall off, and you will melt like the wicked witch in The Wizard of Oz. 

How about this Republicans call me, meet me on the street and confront me. Nope, instead you work in the shadows, you run when you are confronted with facts. Scott Hennen is a professional Republican lickspittle on the radio in North Dakota. When Kadizzle confronts him on his call in show he says " We got to go to break now". That is the Republican classic, no ability to debate.  Always instead of facing facts it is " What about Hunter Biden's laptop," what about and the subject is switched. You Republican cowards have no intellectual ability to make a case. Lying is your only defense. I would love to meet you face to face and see you shirk from reality, but it will not happen, you will just throw rocks from the dark. 

He ain't Right

 Winky says Kadizzle ain't right, but who knows. Did you ever meet someone and think "he ain't right".  They are out there. Awhile back the gutter guy showed up to put gutters on our house. He had two helpers. One was a big guy who did not seem right.  Kadizzle asked the boss man what the deal was. The boss man sort of hinted he was the owners son, and it was his job to babysit this big guy.

Well the gutter guy showed up to work on the house next door, and Kadizzle asked where the big guy was.  He is in a home the boss said. I asked if he was ill. Well he was ill mentally ill. Apparently he was hearing voices from satellites. That can happen, after all look at the people you know in the Trump cult. They thought the Italians used satellites to rig our election. 

The number of people wandering about with loose bolts is staggering. Awhile back Kadizzle was at the grocery store and a Hooplehead was yelling cuss words at the sky. Just another day amongst the unwashed. 

Here we go

 The supreme commander said she wanted to leave North Dakota partially to get away from yard work, and gardening. No way. Now the supreme commander has become obsessed with rocks. We have gone into the forest and hauled " pretty rocks" back to the yard. Pretty rocks have green moss growing on them. So this morning she is cooking up a scheme to move a big rock into the drainage ditch she has been ling with rocks. 

Yesterday we hauled about six wheelbarrow loads of rocks out from the dungeon. The big rock finally surrendered and all the small pieces had to be pitched out. 

To break the huge rock Kadizzle used an electric jackhammer and pretended he was trying to tell something to a Trump cultist. 

We may go up to the Rim of the mountains and camp for a night. Friends are up there and some biking may be in order. It should be considerably cooler up there. 

Two Old Men

Kadizzle has become friends with a man approaching 80. The man was a state trooper for 30 years. Kadizzle was a municipal judge for 25 years. The ex trooper has been emboldened through our political discussions to take on the local Trump cultist. He wants to protest, and has asked Kadizzle to join him. What a strange group it might be, an ex judge, and state trooper holding protest signs on the main thoroughfare suggesting Trump be put in the cage where he belongs. One has to give the old goats in this town credit for expressing their views. Kadizzle really admires the liberal women, they get out and fire a few rockets up the rectums of the cult. 

Doing nothing enables the cult. 

The Secret Society

 Where does the secret society meet? They meet in Alpine, Arizona. How does Kadizzle know? In front of the restaurant there was a sign that said " Secret Society Meets here today at 6:30".  Last evening the local secret society met down by the lake. The secret society as usual discusses the insane politics of the day. The distortion of our legal system was one topic. Cippolini, Trump's lawyer is set to testify in private. Why in private? Isn't our system of justice one where you testify in open court? 

There are people who are not in the fog. What got us in this mess is the niceness, and bashfulness of those who are coherent. They stood by and watched Fox News build an empire of idiots. 

Back to the homefront. Cissie wants to work in the dungeon. Kadizzle finally beat the huge rock into liftable pieces. That means we have to get about four wheelbarrow loads of rock out of the crawl space.  Cissie wants the rocks for her rock project. 

The neighbors first airbnb customers showed up. Welcome to a neighborhood where construction sounds start the day. 

Two law enforcement men

Back to the gun insanity. Yesterday Kadizzle stopped to chat with a new friend. The man is close to 80 and was a state trooper for 30 years in Montana. Kadizzle asked the man the same question he asked the Police Chief in Hazen, North Dakota. In your law enforcement career how many times did you take your gun out of the holster to confront someone. The police chief in Hazen served for 25 years. In both cases the men told me two times. Now think about this. Both these men were in jobs where one would think guns would be involved, but they were not. If two men in rural America, which by the way is where most of the gun nuts are, don't really need guns, then why do the gun crazy people think they are in danger. Theoretically if anyone was going to use or need a gun it would be a police officer. However, even police officers rarely are in a situation where guns are required. On the other hand here in Arizona mental cases think you need to carry a gun to the grocery store. The other day Kadizzle was in the Safeway store and there was a gunslinger checking out. What violence was he expecting in the grocery store? It could be an out of control liberal. 

Story two. Last evening Kadizzle rode the bike down to the park. Under the tree were two fundies, Jehovah's Witnesses. This time it was two men. Kadizzle cannot resist toying with the strange logic of the religious. Kadizzle basically preached to the two men that their real mission should be protecting us from Trump. They strangely seemed to agree.  My point was when Trump establishes his dictatorship there will be just one state religion, and the Witnesses will not be among them.  The fundies realized Hitler tried to wipe them out, and went on to point out how Putin had them on the run in Russia. 

Look back in history and review how authoritarian government always support just one church. Think about it. The fundies are bringing on a situation that will be there own demise. Everyone knows how religion works. It always becomes splintered and ends up in a war. Once our country is dominated by dictators like Trump they will side with the church that gives them the most support. We have already seen Trump playing the religious. Any church that turns on Trump will be attacked by him. Any church that goes along will be supporting him and the Republicans. The Catholic church has already been a big promoter of the Republican agenda. The Catholic church long ago figured how to weasel into politics.  History is replete with the Catholic Church using the power of the state to carry out it's game. When South America was decimated it was two parties that did it, the church and the state. History does repeat itself. 

Gun Crazy America

Last night we had a very nice social and dinner with new neighbors. They have two gun safes, and each has an AR-15.  Then the other new neighbors also have their gun safe. When the revolution starts everyone is ready. 

Yesterday Kadizzle watched the strange parade. It was not the usual fire trucks, and bands. Nope everyone and their grandmother who had one of those four wheel dune buggies or whatever they are lined up and drove down mainstreet. Not sure why anyone would want to see a hundred of the damn things, but there were a couple old cars. 

When the aliens come they will really wonder what virus infected the brains of humans. The aliens will realize very quickly our planet had plenty of everything for people to live comfortably, then the aliens will puzzle why the resources were squandered. 

Making new friends has been interesting. The Kadizzles have met the secret society of liberals and intelligent people. That provides some relief. 

One strange phenomenon are the guns. You can bet on this. The more churches the more guns. How does that work? The more churches the more Trump flags. The connection between religion and violence is clear. 

Cissie decided to watch a documentary on the FLDS. That was the church of Warren Jeffs. He ran a cult, had 28 wives and raped little 12 year old girls. He is now in prison, but still running the church. Do you ever wonder about alter boys being raped by priest, and Morons with 28 wives?  How do people get involved in cults? Well you got Trump. Trump has perfected the cult cultivation. Make believe is a key factor for a good cult. Warren Jeffs has his gang believing he is god. 

The time has come to tax churches. Disneyland pays taxes, and most organizations in the fantasy business pay taxes. Churches are no different. Now we have churches that can interfere in our government and do it without paying taxes. What?

How Little We Know

 In a hopeless quest to get some exercise Kadizzle rides the ebike down to the park below sometimes three times a day. Without the help of the battery the lard would never make it back up the steep hill. 

At the park they have a wonderful concert every Saturday evening. Stopping in the park to listen to the music Kadizzle sat down on a park bench beside a man with two dogs. The conversation rambled along and then of course Kadizzle steered it a little toward politics. Kadizzle asked the man what he thought about the January 6th hearings. The man was clueless and hardly even knew what the hearings were about. The man himself said most people are oblivious to what goes on. He did not seem left right or otherwise. Somewhere in the conversation he said " Well Trump had gas at two dollars".  The ill informed seem to think the president can set the price of gas. 

Do you talk to the general public? Kadizzle does every day. The strange things people believe are amazing. One common thread is the role of the poor, and always immigrants. Having enemies works so well for the Republican narrative. Who is your enemy? Your enemy is socialist, poor welfare cheats, immigrants, and of course liberals. In your heart you know you are a good hard working person, but success has been denied you because your enemies have take your tax dollars, the good jobs, and made regulations that keep you from succeeding. What is better than having someone tell you your failure is not your fault.  It is my wife's cooking that made me so fat. I had nothing to do with it. 

Now for a little different spin. Ignorance eats into society at a far higher level than you might suspect. A father and son team in Switzerland put together a database called gapminder. The database enabled them to query many social questions like " In the world what percentage of people are able to read".  The correct answer is 80%. Ask anyone you know even those with a very good education and they will get the answer wrong. Most people will guess from 20 to 40%. 

What the two researchers found out was even the best educated people are terribly misinformed about the world. It turned out monkeys picking answers at random did better than most college educated people. Now think about the dingers. The dingers never attended college, generally read nothing, and what little the do investigate comes from Fox News. You can prove this to yourself. Just walk somewhere and have a conversation with a dinger. 

The Hoopleheads who are a subset of the dingers are so easily sold any story. Hillary Clinton was running a sex ring out of a pizza parlor. Hunter Biden's laptop has all this strange evidence about his underhanded tricks. Jewish space lasers. A Hooplehead likes nothing better than a simple explanation to a complex problem. There is no global warming, it snowed last night. 

What is a hangfire?

 Long ago and far away Kadizzle worked as an underground coal miner. Some of the old timers had what looked like pepper tattoos on their face. The markings were the result of a hangfire. What is a hangfire? Way back when coal miners used to drill and shoot the coal with old fashioned dynamite they used fuses. Sometimes they would light the fuse, run back and then the dynamite never exploded. Like fools they went up to the face to see what went wrong too soon. The explosion took place in their face and blew coal dust under their skin. What is that strange tattoo? The old coal mining song says.

We are going to have a terrible hangfire. Our Republic is going to explode in our face. People have not taken the time to follow the evil of the Republicans. 

Up very early

The old man is up at 4:30. Red, red, red is the color of the sky in the morning when I rise. A quick look at the news. Good old Scott Hennen in the Fargo Forum. What a piece of work. The man lies for a living. He has to be the offspring of some Fox News seed. Hennen is a Trump lover, and of course says the Jan 6th hearings are a sham. Like every right winger he makes no sensible argument against the evidence, just the usual nonsense about they are out to get the beloved Trump. 

Hennen mentions the little pip squeak Kelly Armstrong. Kelly's daddy struck oil and Kelly is riding the gold train. Remember Kelly playing with his phone during the impeachment hearings. Pathetic, is the word, yet these little rats represent the mindset of North Dakota. 

Weasels that take the fifth amendment, that is the Republicans we love. They are brave with a gun in their hand, but run when confronted naked. 

The hell with all that stuff, it will be a nice day. The rain just will not fall here. Every afternoon it falls all around us. Everyone has told us about the big fireworks display the town is so proud of. We are on a hill above the park and the view from here will be excellent. 

What a strange country, we are all about freedom and the Hoopleheads cheer the destruction of freedom right before our eyes. The religious have eaten us alive. The country is inflamed with stupidity. Evidence is meaningless. A country run by a cult, that is where we are headed. We are about to find out what Germany was like during the time Hitler came to power. A seemingly sophisticated country overrun by a cult. It happened in Germany because too many people just sat back and said it will never happen here. A criminal like Trump goes unsanctioned. No problem. Ya sure ya betcha. Cowards everywhere. If not for two brave women it would be even worse. 

Progress in the backyard

Click on the picture to enlarge it. Cissie relaxes on her new patio furniture. Inside the stone fireplace Kadizzle has a fake fire powered by a solar panel. More grass has to be installed, but we are enjoying the area. If it is too hot on the upper deck we can always go down below where it is cooler. You might note the little door beside the other folding chairs, that is the entrance to the dungeon. The monster rock in there has finally surrendered to the jackhammer. Now about two tons of stones have to be removed. Someday there will be a full sized door installed there. 

The Supreme Court

 The Supreme Court is off the tracks. Our government is shattered and dysfunctional. Republicans are intent on destroying our democracy. If you don't read Heather Cox Richardson you should. She has the best commentary on what is happening in our country. She is a well spoken, and qualified historian. 

This morning I wrote to one of my favorite lickspittles, Rob Port. Port teamed up with Kevin Cramer to declare me " A menace to society". Of course anyone with functioning brain cells knows the menace to society is Donald Trump. Kadizzle put $23 down the shirt collar of Kevin Cramer, and did not leave Republican headquarters in Payson when asked. On the other hand Trump sent armed men to the Capitol to hang Mike Pence. Now who is the menace to society? Port is a classic lickspittle. Port dare not offend Cramer, Hoeven, or Armstrong, they are his conduit to fame. If Port does not handle them carefully, they will not pander to him. 

When you peel back the veneer of the Republican party you see the rot. Like so many devious infestations the engineering can be remarkable. Republicans take the time to carry out their crafted plots to destroy democracy. Democrats cannot organize a one car funeral. 

The January 6th hearing have shown so much about the Republicans. First and foremost they are a sophisticated mafia. Republicans are just an organized group of psychopaths. They will back stab in an instant. Loyalty is only to the one on top, and Trump has shown how quickly he will turn on anyone he perceives to be disloyal. 

Talk to an intelligent person and they will tell you we are in deep trouble. When we have a mafia style man like Trump who is manipulating his gang which includes people like Cramer, Hoeven, and Armstrong we got a problem Houston. 

You don't know how deep the water is until you wade into it. Kadizzle has waded into the Republican quagmire. What lurks unseen beneath the surface is dangerous. Way back in Mercer County, North Dakota Kadizzle found out how the minor players of the Republican Party took over the phone cooperative and used its resources to elect Randy Christman.  The then CEO of the phone company was a dishonest player in the Trump tradition. Kadizzle saw how Burgum's enemy Delzer from Washburn did his dirty tricks. They play dirty, and they know how to manipulate dolts. Fox News was the masterpiece of Republican deceit. Fox realized the treasure of stupidity that was out there just waiting to be harvested. Fox showed you could lie to the dolts with impunity. When is came to lying no one will ever surpass Donald Trump. Trump realized the bigger the whopper the better. Our country has been destroyed by lies.