Don't Believe Everything You Think

At every meeting one fellow comes in with something interesting on his T shirt and head. This was yesterdays contribution. Kadizzle like the hat so well he had to order one. 

Without question this is the best advice you could ever give a Hooplehead. Hoopleheads tune into Fox or listen to a conspiracy speaker and the next thing you know they are doing their version of thinking. This is where the train goes off the track. The Hoople unfortunately believe what they think. Often what they think is what Donald tells them. All of us have caught ourselves thinking something wrong. Jasper Littlebottom has fizzlers. What in the hell is a fizzler? Your brain gets some information, you brain comes to a conclusion. What is the problem with that? It usually works, but it can be a major problem if your brain did not wait until it got enough information. Police officers shoot the wrong people. Israeli soldiers shoot hostages. Republicans are classic with coming to a conclusion based on insufficient information. If you get enough information a good brain will conclude Donald Trump is a con man. If your brain is not coming to this conclusion reset it or ask for professional help. 
 

Brave gunman patrols Safeway grocery store

 Today at the grocery store Kadizzle met this brave gunman. First Kadizzle asked him if the gun was real. Of course it is. Kadizzle asked the gunman what the danger was? The gunman said he had to protect himself. From what? Kadizzle asked. Do we have to shop with nut cases like this? Kadizzle talked to the store manage and asked them to prevent the gun crazed from carrying their cannons in the store. What if this mental case fires at a perceived threat and hits and innocent shopper in the next isle? Having this mental illness on parade while you shop is discomforting. Many years we have shopped and never been attacked by an onion, carrot or even a tomato. 

Don't let the truth intrude.

Locally there is a group called Transparent Payson. It could be called prostitutes against sex. The last thing the group is, is Transparent. Yesterday their version of Glenn Beck was on local Radio Station KMOG. Kadizzle tried to call in and as the provocator a question. Immediately the host hung up on Kadizzle. "Your not allow to call in" was his response. Why? The answer is simple you might ask a question that reveals the false premises the Transparent guy is spouting. Paul Fromelt is the bitcher for the Transparent group. Paul has a lot of complaints, but no solutions. The town needs to be funded. Republicans don't want the wealthy to pay taxes, so someone has to pay for the ticket. In the end the same old goats that elected Trump have to pay the price of electing Republicans. When Republicans shovel money to the top, the bottom starves. Now, Paul Fromelt comes along and cooks up a conspiracy. There is plenty of money, and people should vote of taxes.  Anyone can bitch about taxes, but few have the courage to raise them. No Republican would dare tax the rich. That is why Payson is in this mess. Trickle down, trickled up and now we are broke.  You see the mind of the Hoopleheads in action at the grocery store buying lottery tickets. That is the solution. False hope, and lies are the fertilizer of the Republican party and the crop is idiots. Someone has to sprinkle the stories, and Paul does his best. 

Kadizzle drove to KMOG after they rudely hung up on him. At the radio station Kadizzle asked for an explanation.  The generalities fell like the rain, but they just could not answer the question " Exactly what did I ever do or say that you will not tolerate?" They knew they were cornered. What they cannot tolerate is the truth. Kadizzle was going to ask Paul Fromelt when he was on the air " What is your solution to the town raising the money it needs to operate?".  That question would have been legitimate, and very difficult for Mr. Fromelt to answer. That is the kind of question you don't ask at the Tea Party or when Paul Fromelt is fromenting lies on the radio. 

Something is wrong

Just toured the Ohio valley where Kadizzle was born and raised. The videos are depressing. The houses are run down the towns have shrunk, and the entire situation is just plain depressing. Every time Kadizzle tours the East coast same reaction. Suddenly it occurred to me why people are willing to go for Trump. People have a natural sense they have been robbed. If life isn't working out for you, you need someone to blame. In these towns that once made America great, there is not industry. The steel industry, the glass industry, and even the coal industry is gone. 

People watch television and they see other people with decent homes, and lives, and incomes, but it aint workin for them. The poverty in this country is insane. When you look at the average income of people in West Virginia and the busted flat southern states you realize some people moved ahead, but a lot were left behind. People end up thinking " anything would be better than this" .  That is the appeal of Trump, he is something different. In a sea of ignorance everything looks like a life raft. The regular politicians have miserably failed so many people. The dumb Hoopleheads say, " Lets try a dictator". 

History, that lesson teacher. Germany was a mess after world war one. Well lets try something, anything, the Germans figured. Why not some crazy man who promises change. The best part of Hitler was he said it is not your fault. Sound familiar? How did the old snake oil salesmen work the crowd? The promise of change. Lottery tickets and gambling tell you how desperate people are.  In the old days people saved and invested, those days are gone. Now you bet ten dollars on change, and  you lose.  Next you bet democracy on a nut case like Trump, and lose again. 

It all comes back to the same thing. People have been pillaged by the one percent. The rich took the money and moved to enclaves of prosperity leaving the Hoopleheads in the dust. With their heads spinning wondering why they are broke the picking for Trump is ripe. Just like Hitler all it takes is a story. The essence of the story is it is not your fault. China, migrants, and liberals are the people who have left you in a slum shack. I can fix that. Yup, sounds good to me. 

Up extremely early

Kadizzle just could not sleep, so the hulking lump of humanity got up and took a shower. Outside the stars were shinning, indicating a nice day ahead. Winky is down at the Lake making the trails safe for democracy. 

At 9:00 on KKKMOG right wing radio the Hoopleheads will attack the mayor. The Hooples love Trump and are against sunshine. The progressive city council wants to move forward, but the Hoopleheads cannot stand the idea of paying for anything. Moving forward means razing taxes. Since the simple minded gave all the money in the form of tax breaks to the rich there is nothing left to run the little towns like Payson. What do you do? You have to raise taxes. The Luddites don't understand math. Life is a zero sum game. What you give to the rich, you don't have for yourselves, it is that simple.  The trickle down ruse worked the Hooples were told if you gave the rich money you would be rich. The lottery works the same way and the same idiots play the lottery. If you buy a ticket you will win, but you don't, you lose every time. The sad part is the Hoopleheads never get any smarter. 

So today on the radio the Hooples will tell the mayor he has millions of dollars the town has been hiding. The simple minded have been shown by auditors, and accounts this just isn't true, but it is the old Trump game, you just keep lying and that makes it true. 

Changing the subject, Winky came up with something interesting the other day. You cannot run for president three times. If indeed Trump won as he claimed, Trump has been president two times. So if the lying scum believes his own lies, he is disqualified. 

The world has spun out of control

 Shanika called yesterday to let Kadizzle know he was needed back home. The dragline over near Beulah fell in the pit. Kadizzle worked in this type of mine with this machinery for many years. On two occasions we almost lost one of these huge machines. These draglines are the largest moving machine on dry earth. It is hard for someone who has not seen a real one to invision how large they are. The bucket that scoops the dirt will hold three buses. 

The planet is getting cooked, yet we go about our merry way. What me worry?  Kadizzle will soon turn 75 and it will not be that many years before Kadizzle cashes out. However, those left behind may fry. The planet is warming up far faster than anyone thought possible. The dingers, Hoopleheads, and simple minded just don't care or understand the implications. One thing predicted long ago were the mass migrations of people. Well, here they come. 

Now does all this seem bad? How could you make it worse? Very easy elect Donald Trump the madman, insane with greed, hate, and stupidity.  The Hoopleheads like nothing better than throwing gasoline on the fire. 

The depression slapped people into consciousness, planet Earth is about to get a big slap. 

Tilting the Earth

 The Earth has started tilting the other way, so morning will soon break. The desert bike ride was very nice. Deserts make perfect bike riding. The slope is always gentle, and the sand makes a perfect track. Six of us buzzed along for 14 miles. Tucson has some very nice bike areas. Our friends home sits in a wonderful place with a perfect view of the Catalina Mountains. Al loves building, welding, and putting his touch of art in his projects. Strangely that even though they have a very nice home, they prefer to camp in their fifth wheel trailer in the back yard, that means guest have the house to themselves. First time in a hot tub in a long time. 

Back in Payson and into the old routine. Winter so far has been very mild. Jasper Littlebottom will head down to the lake today to make the world safe for democracy. 

The Trump insanity just gets more crazy all the time. A rumor is going wild about Trump using "Toe Pads" to help him stand up. Some say it is an indication of mental problems. Do you need much to realize Trump has severe mental problems. 

Fire belly

 Wonderful meal with friends celebrating Christmas. The spicy food and drinks took a toll. Biking today in the Tucson desert.Hopefully everyone will enjoy the holiday.

What? Got an add from the National Cremation Society

 Kadizzle feels real old right now, just got a letter from the National Cremation society. Wonder if someone recommended me. Told Jasper Littlebottom what seasoning I wanted them to use. Hope they salvage what they can. A lot of good fat that smells like cheeseburger will be there. Give my knees to the needy, and save my love for Winky. If my eyes still work give the to someone in the Trump cult so they can see through the fog. Be careful what you do with the brain it may confuse someone. 

Make sure they do not put me in the oven if I die from drinking. The explosion from the alcohol's fumes could be deadly. Put my ashes in the punch at the Republican Christmas banquet. Many predict Kadizzle will die from lead poisoning. 

Ryan Downey - Running (Official Video)

Kadizzle often gets a song stuck in his head, this is a good one, give it a try. 

Off to Tucson

 The Kadizzles will drive down to Tucson for some time with old friends. Tucson is too dry, and a little too crowded, but it does have the Catalina Mountains. May get some snow today. Rain came down on and off all night. 

Just watched a video on CNN. A reporter showed to prosperous farmers the clip of Trump making Nazi remarks. The farmers have to hire immigrants to get their crops in. Both were taken aback by Trump imitating Hitler. Maybe there is some hope. 

The big boss is back from the lake

Shouting commands, and inspecting the premises, General Littlebottom stormed into the castle last evening. The tranquility of a singe existence was shattered. 

So rain will fall today. Kadizzle is trying to shake his addiction to toying with the Hoopleheads on facebook. Busting their Trump illusions is too much fun to resist. Kadizzle needs to go cold turkey. The ability of the Hoopleheads to ignore Trump's words, his crimes, and the insanity he projects is astounding. Hooples have completely forgotten how Trump was found guilty of stealing 25 million from college students. When Trump clearly states he will seek revenge on his first day in office, the Hooples just don't seem to register what that means. Now, there is more evidence recorded of Trump telling people to cheat on his behalf. It just does not penetrate the cult cloud. 

One fun thing to do with the Hoopleheads on facebook is ask them to admit they voted for Trump. Strangely they will not do it. Deep down in the Hoople mind they know they are not that bright. They also know their support for Trump is hard evidence they are mentally challenged. The way their minds work is fascinating. They can screen out all real evidence about Trump with some sort of magic. 

What we do

The Forest Service in their infinite insanity bought the volunteer trail crew a brand new chainsaw, but we are not allowed to use it. So we have to winch large trees from the trail. It works, but cutting the tree up would work better. Of course the Forest Service wants to protect old goats from themselves, but Kadizzle just spent hours in New York with a chainsaw clearing land for his daughter. Came home with all appendages. Might be old, but not that stupid. 

 

Playing with the Hoopleheads

Facebook is a disease. Kadizzle's family said he had to quit. Playing with the Hoopleheads was just too much fun, and addiction is to easy. For over a year Kadizzle stayed away from the facebook drug. However, one taste of Hooplehead bashing and he was hooked again. Toying with the brain of the Hooples is like working on a puzzle. 

When a Hoople is corned with logic they always say you are hateful. Trump is a religion, and so much that pops up when you speak to a religious person also pops up when you deal with anyone in the Trump cult. Hooples equate rational thinking with being mean. How does this happen. Deep in their head they know you are destroying their illusion. If someone dresses up like an idiot, but thinks they are gorgeous, do you tell them the truth?If you do you are mean. 

When the doctor tells you that you need to lose weight, is he mean?The Hooples are happy in the bubble don't break it. 

Looking Back

What happened? The year went by. As you get old time passes at the speed of light. Here were are two years into our new home with other houses sprouting nearby. It has been a good year suppressing the Hoopleheads. General Donut got the Tea Party thrown out of their nest. We got our encampment set up at the lake. Our trip to Spain was fun, and the wife may be enticed to do more international travel. Sylvie the granddaughter with the nickname the Giant has been such a wonderful girl with the best grades possible, and her singing and acting at the Denver School of Arts has gone well. Sylvie is now as tall as her dad and grandpa. The two little ones of Megan are growing like weeds. Megan is starting a new career as an interior decorator. Her own house turned out great after a complete remodel. 

As our neighborhood fills up everyone is getting to know each other. We are blessed with good neighbors. The artist down the street is getting his house built.  We have three good Democrats for. sure in the new mix. The rest have fallen into the Republican trap, but we still like them. The road in front of the house is done and they may open it up soon. 

Kadizzle is up to his bunghole in local politics. We have a great town council willing to fight the Hooples and their backward ways. The Democrats have been pushing back and General Donut has a lot of confidence in the future. Kadizzle is not so sure. The number of dolts, dingers, Hoopleheads, and just plain simple minded idiots is staggering. The people living in castles have no idea how the peasants think and live. We could be in deep trouble. The upcoming election will make or break the country. Either the sun will shine or we are doomed with a Trump dictatorship. 

Up at six, to move a big log today

 Could not fall back asleep, so Kadizzle had to take a settler. Awake now we are getting ready to head up Campaign Creek. Near Peter Bigfoots encampment the goal is to remove a very large tree from the trail. The work will be done with mechanical advantage, winches, and pullies. er 

Peter Big foot is getting old, probably eighty. Peter established his survival school long ago. Peter lives very remotely with no city services such as water, electricity, or phone. Peter stays alive by gardening with his remarkable skills that produce the best produce imaginable. Winky is going to buy some vegetables from Bigfoot. 

Here we sit in the Earth module preparing for today's volunteer work. With the fake fireplace and another electric heater we are cozy. 

Parker Creek Trail #160. What we do as volunteers

Down to the Lake

Jasper Littlebottom has conned Kadizzle into going down to the lake to work on trails. The task will be to remove large fallen trees from the trails. Kadizzle likes using leverage, winches, and other principles of physic to move the beast. Of course it will be warmer three thousand feet lower. 

As mentioned many times our trail crew is old goats working. Some cities and towns have a method to allow old goats to work and get a tax deduction. Kadizzle thinks this would be a good idea for Payson. The cheap Republican goats who love tax breaks for the rich could pay their own taxes by working. The town could give the goats a tax break for cleaning up their yard. The old goats bitching about taxes could pick up trash, or do some office work, anything to help out. Goats could read to children, or help at the school cafeteria.  

Breaking the bubble

The Hoopleheads live in an information bubble. A key to running a Hooplehead information site is to keep real information out. In Payson, Arizona the Hooples will quickly make sure you cannot bust the Hooplehead Bubble. Kadizzle has tested this several times. Go to a Hooplehead meeting speak the truth, and bang you will be asked to leave or they will threaten you with the police. The same goes for Hooplehead social media. The Hooples have a facebook thing called Transparent Payson. Strangely it isn't very transparent. Both General Donut and Kadizzle were locked out immediately when we challenged the lies. This is typical right wing behavior. 

You have seen it on television. An interview goes off the rails on Fox News and the person being interviewed is scooted out. KMOG radio just like KFYR in North Dakota will hang up on a caller or cut them off, or talk over them if they start to expose the fraud. 

Now look at the other side. The Democrats have never refused entrance to anyone at any meeting. Hmm

Homeless Solution

 Across the country hundreds of shopping malls are empty. Why not make them shelters for the homeless? There are now office building empty. Lack of will and imagination are the only problems. The idea arose from seeing a conversion of a shopping mall to a community college. Homeless people can share bathrooms, kitchens, and bathing facilities. Think how many homeless you could put in a shopping mall. There could be child care, pet facilities and so on. More than likely the owners would be glad to unload and empty mall. Look around you at all the empty places people could live. What we have in this country is not a shortage of anything, just the waste of so much. 

What an old man thinks

The clock will soon strike 75 years old. The guy in my head gets to watch the mind age. This is the age of review. Now pictures of people keep popping up on social media. Just now saw a kid I grew up with. He was wild and his mother had her hands full. How did he turn out? Might be interesting to find out. All those kids in the neighborhood, what happened? Did they have kids? Everyone in the old Woodsdale neighborhood is old now.  Imagine that ten year old now 75. What did we live through? Did any of us ever think of what was to come? Now we have a dictator running for president, electric cars, Hoopleheads and Russia at war. 

Now we have grandchildren. It is simply amazing to think about all that has happened. We all imagined people would wise up, nope we got dumber. Never thought we would set the planet on fire, destroy the oceans, and create homeless people. When Kadizzle was a kid there was maybe on or two bums, now the streets are full of bums. Progress?  Who ever thought 400 families would buy congress and manage to get half of everything? The world has taken some strange twist.  

One More Time

 About thirty minutes ago Kadizzle finished a long talk in his garage with a Hooplehead. We sit in the garage to soak up the warm sunshine. After the Hoople spouted the usual Republican twist on taxes, Kadizzle made the Hoople an offer. Kadizzle told the Hooplehead if he came in the house and watched a five minute video that debunked his nonsense he would pay him sixty dollars in cash immediately. Nope, the Hoople was not about to be force fed real knowledge. Kadizzle told the Hoople he would watch anything the Hoople wanted for sixty dollars. 

This is the world of the Hoopleheads, you cannot pay a Hooplehead to get smarter. The same Hooplehead said you cannot find anything in Costco that is not made in China. Kadizzle told the Hoople he just bought gin that came from England at Costco. The truth doesn't matter. Next the Hoople said 90% of the merchandise at Costco was from China. Kadizzle offered to drive the Hoople to Costco and pay him $500 if he was right. Nope, the Hoople said he did not have the time. 

Yesterday at the town council meeting Kadizzle tried to hand the Hooples fact sheets. Nope, not going to read a Harvard study. The Hooples treat facts like radioactive material, they want no part of facts. Always remember the Hoople motto " If you believe it, it is true".

The National Association for the Advancement of Humanity

 Call Kadizzle and you might get this greeting " National Association for the Advancement of Humanity".  When Kadizzle gets calls he does not recognize this is how he answers. If you don't want to identify yourself, then why should Kadizzle?

However, The National Association for the Advancement of Humanity is the organization that sponsors this blog and does so much good for Humanity. Currently the Association is trying to save America from Trump. If you want to help send a generous donation. In the comments ask for the address and you will get it. 

The association fights all social injustice such as income inequality, Hoopleheads, the Tea Party, Republicans, and the list of miscreants goes on.

The Association believes poverty is a human invention promoted by the Republicans. By giving everything to the rich nothing is left for the poor. Since the Republicans have successful manipulated the simple minded a major goal of the Association is to educate the simple minded. This is a daunting task, but some headway has been made. 

So get out the check book and pen. Your money will be used to fight the Republicans on their home ground, right wing radio. Right here in Payson, Arizona we have KKKMOG radio. Democrats have bought time to counter the lies of the local Tea Party, the Republicans, and the Hoopleheads. We have made progress. One hour of air time is $200.  So far the program has been very successful. Some Hooples called in to the talk show and said " You guys are pretty smart".  Does it get any better than that. So do your part, give a Hoople a Christmas present, the truth.

Hoopleheads go down in flames

The town council passed the ordinance to keep the .88 percent tax. The Hoopleheads of course don't like the idea of taxes. Although the Hooples made a big effort to get the Hooples to the town council meeting few showed up and those that did were poor at presenting their case. As usual the Hooples claimed there is some fifty million dollars hidden that the city can use. The Town manager tried to explain the numbers to the Hooples, but you just cannot get through to them. 

Prior to the meeting both the normal people and the Hooples had to stand outside the door waiting for the meeting to open. Kadizzle tried to talk to the Hooples. Impossible, trying to converse with one Hoople (Steve Otto) he kept barking like a dog. Wish Kadizzle was fabricating this, but it is true. You can only feel sorry for the town council once you see the Hooples in action. The town manager who is doing a great job,  lost his patientencer with the simple minded and tried to interject some reality, but it is hopeless. 

Payson is lucky to have a town council that will do the right thing and ignore the loud idiots that come from the Tea Party mentality. 

Old People clearing trails.

Yesterday six old people headed down Deer Creek trail to take on the nasty cat's claw, and other inventions of the devil to tea humans apart. The youngest was 74.  Old goats making America great again. Kadizzle used the gas weed trimmer to beat back the ragweeds. Maybe we cleared two miles of trail. What if more old goats got with the program and did something useful? The Kadizzle pair has been clearing trails for ten years. Winky has worn out her knees and hips. Old Kadizzle is just plain worn out. 

Crumbling, that is what old age is. Like a bridge, a house or a tree, you just crumble. We are getting slower, the brain is failing, the belly is growing. 

Sadly as life enters the last quarter we are going backwards thanks to the Republicans and their evil greedy ways. Republicans have created more poor people, more homeless, more sick, more nasty, and more misery. The misguided Hoopleheads have been the tool of the Republicans. You can fool a Hooplehead easier than a five year old. The Hoopleheads were sold some silly ideas. The Hooples all think they will strike it rich, so the Hooples line up to get robbed buying lottery tickets. Hooples all oppose taxing the rich because every Hoople thinks he is rich or will be next week. It works, Hooples support the very people that rob them. In fact the Hoopleheads make sure the robbers have guns. 

Today Kadizzle will go to town hall to take on the simple minded. The usual Hooples will be there, squealing that they have to pay the tax the rich will not. The Hooples just can't figure it out. 

Listen to the Hoopleheads squeal

The Hoopleheads will show up at town council on Wednesday to squeal about a tax increase. Republicans have starved the country of income by letting the rich live tax free. Billionairs now only pay 4%. The result of the very fire the Hoopleheads set is burning down the town they live in. Payson has no money because of some silly law that sends all the property tax to the county. Town council has no choice by to try to raise sales tax. The Hooples cannot figure out that they shot their own foot off.  

Wealth Inequality in America. If you don't watch this don't even bother to take the test.

If only a simple minded Hooplehead or Dinger would watch this maybe the light would come on. 

Is the tide going out?

Today is donut day and the Democrats will meet and shoot the breeze. Tonight for dinner the Democrats will meet again for a Christmas party. Bob Dylan said you don't have to be a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing, but who knows which way the wind is blowing. The polls show we may be headed to a dictatorship, but on the other hand Kadizzle does his own polling, and the more intellgent people who were Trumpers in the past seem to be waking up. The dingers are not leaders, they are followers. Dingers watch and listen to other dingers. There may be a trickle down of intelligence going on. 

On Friday the Democrats were on KKKMOG radio. That radio station is the bastion of the Hoopleheads. The Democrats blasted the Hooples with facts. What happens when the Democrats are on the local Fox News? Today will be interesting to see if we have new people willing to shed the Trump skin of disgrace. Republicans are welcome at the meeting and some have shown up venting their disgust about Trump. Today will be a good test. 

What can goats see?

 Kadizzle jut got back from getting his cancer cooked on his nose. Waiting to get cooked Kadizzle spoke with an old goat in the waiting room. The goat showed Kadizzle an article about Hunter Biden. The thought hit Kadizzle that the goat could spot wrong in Hunter Biden but was blind to the crimes of Trump. How does that work?The goat said Hunter Biden should be in jail. Kadizzle said loudly " right beside Trump".  The idea is to speak up in the presence of all the goats sitting in the loung. Bashful Democrats are the biggest problem. The Fox News goats never get out of the bubble. Any time you can prick the bubble of the Trump cult, do it. 

One more time

Lets start by insisting you watch the video below. Christie told the truth at the debate. How do the Hoopleheads and the dingers ignore reality?

Like every morning Kadizzle was just reading the NYT.  Get ready to puke because you have seen this written here too many times. Income inequality is the ROOT of the economic mess. Just read an article on how the young are hopeless. Why? You know the answer the rich stole it all. This is not rocket science. When Willy takes to much, Sam doesn't have enough.  Now you can take off and write about the homeless, low income housing, health care or whatever you want, but the failure to tax the rich is the ROOT of the problem. When the wealthy paid taxes and unions protected workers things worked. Spin your brains out, but that is the simple reality. Pretending like there is another cause to drug addiction, poverty, and homelessness, is a waste of time. If you went to dinner and one person ate all the food you could figure it out, but not the Hoopleheads. The Hoopleheads fall for every Republican lie. 

 The debate said it all. Three out of four tried to deny reality for the benefit of Trump, only Christie had the balls to say it like it is. With the truth spit in their face, the Hooples will still deny the truth. The dictator train is coming down the track and it will be Germany all over with Trump. Trump is already lining up the Brown Shirts.  

Chris Christie DESTROYING Trump at the 4th GOP Debate

Victory for the ears

She fixed the hearing aid in no time. Kadizzle went to Costco and thought he would wait weeks to hear again out of the right ear, but the nice young lady had it up an running in fifteen minute. Kadizzle highly recommends Costco for hear aids. Their price and service would be hard to beat. After  you buy them they clean them free anytime and fix them free. Costco also treats employees well and does not abuse them like Walmart. 

The Trump dictatorship is on the horizon and it is hard not to think about it. In Payson the Republicans have done a great job of censoring outside ideas. Kadizzle talked to a neighbor woman yesterday and realized that even though she thinks she is getting  broad spectrum of information, she is actually caught up in the Hooplehead storm. 

The carpenters are going nuts working on four houses in our neighborhood, and the fifth is getting the foundation as Kadizzle looks out the window. 

Outside the sun is shinning brightly and it looks like it will be a great day. Had a hard time falling back asleep last night and had to resort to a settler. It worked and Kadizzle slept until 7:30. It took almost half a glass of settling fluid, but it worked. You can get settling fluid in various sizes. Costco has very good prices on settling fluid. Kadizzle got two handles of gin for 31 bucks each yesterday. 

 

One Ear Adventure

Now only one ear works. Well sorta, maybe. Insanity combined with stupidity struck yesterday. Kadizzle decided to trim his beard. The insane procedure is to use electric hair cutting tools to trim the beard. A danger in trimming the beard is cutting the hearing aids in half. Simple solution, put the hearing aids on the hood of the truck. What? In order to keep beard hair out of the house Kadizzle uses the rear view mirror of the giant truck to trim the beard. 

Time to go to the movies with some friends. Forgot the hearing aids were on the hood of the truck. When Kadizzle got to the movie he thought about how loud they played the sound. This trigger a thought about the hearing aid. Oh, no, somewhere between the house and the theater the hearing aids fell off onto the busy street. Quickly Kadizzle retraced the trip. No luck. The hell with it Kadizzle watched the movie, but became obsessed with finding the hearing aids before dark. Once more he got up from the theater and got in the truck.

There it was one hearing aid in the intersection near the theater. How did it stay on the hood for a mile, but it did. Kadizzle drove back to the house looking for the other hearing aid amazed ear one was working and the fact that no one had run over ear one. No luck finding ear two until Kadizzle got back to the intersection. There ear two was intact. Ear two was apparently run over, but still seemed like it might work. Well, it does not. So only ear one works. 

All this means Kadizzle may have to got to Costco to get ear two fixed or replaced. Old, senile, and stupid is a bad combination.

Tilting the wrong way

 Here, deep in the land of the Hoopleheads the Earth is tilting away from the sun. Thankfully in f few weeks the Earth will be heading back toward warm. Winky is obsessed with out volunteer work for the Forest Service and will go down to the lake later today. Kadizzle has to get his nose cooked for the skin cancer trying to invade his body. So here we sit at about five in the morning. Kadizzle has slept more hours than his time awake in the last couple of days. Sleeping is great, sliding into a deferent world of strange dreams. 

The doughnuts meeting went well according to the co conspirator. The Hooples are struggling, but if Trump is elected the world as we know it is over. The local Hooples are upset about taxes. The dingers are incapable of understanding how the rich pay no taxes and the Hooples have to make up the difference. We now live in a world where one individual has more money than some small countries. Greed grows like algae on a lake. 

Albert Einstein proved math is key to the universe, yet your average Hooplehead has a very poor understanding of math. Kadizzle is no math genius , but does understand a few basic principles. Exponential growth is one thing a typical Hoople is clueless about. Most Hooples are clueless about compound interest. The one that really rapes the Hooples is probability. Every Hoople thinks he is going to win the lottery. A fifty fifty chance is not even that good, but Hooples will give away their social security check for one chance in eight thousand. The chance Trump will improve things is one in a million, but the Hooples will bet on the cult. 

George Santos Hope

 The expulsion of George Santos both brings hope and despair. Yes, he is gone, and a majority did the right thing. Now the bad news, there are 114 hard core rats, idiots, Republicans who voted to keep the rat. Amazing anyone would publicly support Santos. This is where we are in the United States. 114 blatant rats who will stoop to any level to remain in power. 

Back from the mountain

The trail crew is back from the mountain trail. Kadizzle decided to go because he wanted to add another notch to his trail list. Kadizzle has been all over the Seaira Anca Mountains. The highlight of yesterdays hike was the find of a strange site occupied by early natives. Walking up the trail Kadizzle saw what his missed going down. On top of a large rock was a collection of pot shards. Normally this means a dwelling site was nearby. Kadizzle figured as ususal the pot pieces had washed down from above so he started up hill to find where the site must be. There was none. How could there be so many pot pieces yet no visible remains of a site? Searching in futility for something that would indicate a dwelling was once here Kadizzle had no luck. Usually there is a reason a place is chosen. It might be for a view, water, or protection. None of these were present. The only reason anyone might have chosen the area was the abundance of acorns. In the end Kadizzle had to conclude early people came here to collect acorns. Perhaps they brought containers to fill with the seeds. That was the only thing that made sense. However, there were a couple pieces of decorated pottery. You don't use the good stuff for collecting seeds. The mystery remains. 

Make up your mind

 The mind has gone back and forth a dozen time with the decision to go up the mountain or not. The trail crew is going to go to the Serra Ancha mountains to do trail work today. The weather could be better. Two guys from the Sierra club will also be going. Kadizzle will have to ride in their rattle wagon. There is no more noisy or rickety old four wheeler on the planet. The ride is like sitting in a can of bolts. To make matters worse the drive is not that good, and the road is terrible. We will be near the waterfall where a person fell off and was killed a week ago. The road is about to cave in there for sure death. Anyway it is something to do. It will be a crowded forest service truck with six of us in there. Let the adventure begin. 

Down at the Lake

Here we are once again at Lake Roosevelt. Things are quiet, and the sun is shining. The volunteers will get together for a pot luck at 11.  Age is taking it's toll on the volunteers. The water system here is on the fritz, and water pressure is low.  

 Some volunteers exist here living on the edge. The difference between paying for the basics, and getting them free is big. Here you get free water, electric, and sewer.  Marginal volunteers can make it on a slim budget. Our country is on the verge of a poverty crisis. Already the large cities are feeling the homeless crunch. As the population ages, it will only get worse. People cannot make the connection between the rich stealing everything, and the poor having nothing. 

Poor money management is one key to the mess we are in. Water and money runs through the hands of the bum walkers just the same. A bum worker near us has accumulated a rural junk encampment. He buys stuff he absolutely cannot afford or need. 

From one planet to another

 We are back in the land of the common people. From the land of acute prosperity we have landed in a more normal place. Kadizzle has been in a lot of upscale grocery stores, but the visit to one yesterday showed the stark difference in how one segment of society shops and another does. Some of the differences were suttle, but there was a distinct difference. The staffing of the store was a big difference. Each department was filled with wonderful thing put together in the store, and each had many more people preparing the food for the prosperous than a typical grocery store here in the land of many more peasants. 

In the land of prosperity things are different. With the son in law Kadizzle went to by some 4x4 lumber. In the exclusive hardware store there were only two pieces of lumber and the price was ten times what the local Home Depot sold it for.  In the land of no suffering pricing would make any normal budget suffer. 

Americans do not realize we live in a land of disparity. The haves do not roam among the have nots. The private jets fly into the little enclave airports, and those with the means do not suffer the indignity of normal plane flight. In the other world the Threat from Trump is ignored. In the world where people work with their hands Trumpism takes on a whole new nuance. 

History is replete with instances where those on top totally lost contact with those on the bottom. It never ended well. 

35 miles

 The big apple is about 35 miles from us. Erin,Fran, and Sylvie buzzed in to see a musical. Taking the train made it easy. Sam and Kadizzle did logging in the backyard. Megan lives on about three acres so about half is forest.

This is a prosperous area, hard to imagine these people electing Trump.

Different worlds

  The cleaning lady is coming. In other worlds there is no cleaning lady. In some worlds you get up before dawn. In other worlds you sleep in. In some worlds you take the bus. In other worlds someone drives you. The people that live in different worlds don’t always understand each other’s problems. Trump lives in his own world. Trump has a golden toilet. Others have an outhouse.

The Kadizzles switch worlds. Sometimes the lap of luxury and sometimes a walk to the outside toilet. Fortunately bombs don’t fall in our world. Easy to look at the world of someone else, but to know their world is a different matter.

Zoning prohibits poverty

 We are in New York in part of the state where zoning regulations prohibit poverty. None of the usual trappings of the poor exist. Visiting the grandchildren for Thanksgiving. Megan’s completely remodeled house is spectacular. Grandpa may be put to work in the yard.

The entire family is here, three grandchildren and our own kids. Kadizzle would never live on the east coast. The big cities are all a mess. Traffic is insane.

What if you could tax stupidity?

 Stupidity is taxed every day. Go to the grocery store and watch people pay the tax. You go up to the service counter and as for as many lottery tickets as you think you are stupid enough to buy. The dumber you are the more tickets you buy. Another alterative is to go out to the casino and pay you tax instantly. The stupidity tax raises billions and often it is for the government and sometimes for charities. What a wonderful tax, people enjoy paying it. 

Now why not take it one step further?  For every $100 you pay in federal tax you get one lottery ticket. Dingers would do their best to pay as much tax as they could to get the lottery tickets. People would line up to pay taxes. Even the rich might be willing to pay tax. 

 

A simple solution to homelessness

 Here we sit in the biggest campground Kadizzle has ever seen in the United States. One big problem, the place is crumbling for lack of funds to maintain it. The 1,200 wonderful camping sites were built to accommodate people from Phoenix that never came. 

This place could cheaply be made a wonderful place for the homeless. Since the campground has showers and good facilities the homeless would not need them in their home if small homes were built without bathrooms. Since all the roads and most of the infrastructure is here only electricity would have to be provided, which would be very easy because a lot of it is already in place. 

If a small dwelling was built for the unfortunate, with no bathroom, it would be very inexpensive. These campgrounds could easily accommodate 3, 000 people.  Since this is in a rural setting and the campground is in a specific area crime and drugs could easily be controlled. The problem with pets would be solved. It is simply a matter of will, imagination, and get it done. 

Gold falling from the sky

It is raining on and off, and the desert badly needs rain. We are down at Lake Roosevelt. The lake is still  high from moisture last year. The coyotes went nuts last night, very close. We take off for New York before long. Seeing the grandchildren will be a joy. 

On another subject Kadizzle saw the doctor yesterday. The doctor wanted blood work. Kadizzle just had blood work done by the urologist. Why not do all the blood test at once, save some money, but money doesn't matter to the greed driven medical system in this country. Recently Kadizzle had to get some prescriptions filled in Spain. Kadizzle was expecting a bill of 200 dollars. The actual bill was ten dollars. The ability of insurance companies in the Untied States to rob people is insane, then add the drug companies and their theft.  

Trump owns the mentally ill

 Yesterday Kadizzle sat beside Doug, a successful businessman. Doug is still for Trump. The logic of his brain makes a pretzel look straight. When a thought pops out of Doug's mind you ask yourself where does he get this crap? How many Dougs are out there? Kadizzle talks to a lot of people, and finds normal people with functioning minds are in the minority. Doug thrives on scary scenarios, the banks are going to fail, we will have a war, and on it goes. You don't have to talk to these crazy people long before you realize the lid is off. 

Earlier in the day Kadizzle talked to the little old lady with the Trump hat. The little lady looks like she was in the dryer to long and the hat to prove she is brain dead is way too big. Like Dough she is in a Trump daze. The Trump religion is like any other cult, you just believe, because you like crazy. All these right wing dingers remind Kadizzle of the snake handlers in West Virginia. Back in the hills the snake handlers read the Bible and believe like the Bible says " If you believe the serpent will not bite you".  The serpent in this case is Donald Trump and he is ready to strike. 

Back in the hills the trick to picking up a rattlesnake is to put it in a wooden box, kick the box, play electric guitars and get the snakes so confused they cannot bike. The process is very similar with Trump people. 

When in college Kadizzle came across this story about a snake handler in Kentucky.  Sometimes these snake handlers pull the fangs. OK, this snake handler was at a county fair.  The Bible dazed preacher was on the stage handling a big rattlesnake to impress the people about how the lord works. Someone in the audience said " Try this one".  The guy had a big jar with a big rattlesnake. The preacher tried it, the snake struck and killed he preacher.  So much for the Trump mindset. We are going to get struck by the Trump insanity, just hold on. 

The Story of a Trump rat

 The belly is too large, so Kadizzle rides the ebike down and around the golf course twice a day. The real exercise comes from pedalling up the hill. What makes the trip more fun is the Easter Egg hunt. Actually it is a hunt for golf balls. There is a bin in the garage with about 1,500 golf balls in it. 

On one stretch of the hunt there live two nasty Donald Trump Republican rats. The rats used to fly a " Go Brandon" flag, and a Trump flag.  The rats tried to sell their rat nest, and the realtor must have told them to take down the cult flags. 

Irritated Kadizzle saw the cult flags every day and longed to say something to the rats, however Kadizzle restrained himself and never confronted the rats. 

Then one day Kadizzle spotted two golf balls in the yard adjacent to the rat nest. Kadizzle had met the owner of the home beside the rat nest and thought he was a nice guy. In fact he is a nice guy. 

Kadizzle went into the yard of the nice guy to retrieve the two golf balls and the male rat sprang from his nest yelling nasty things at Kadizzle. Kadizzle in turn call the angry rat every name he could think of and confronted the rat about his Trump cult membership. The rat put his face right in the face of Kadizzle and did his best to provoke a fight. Kadizzle explained to the rat that he knew the homeowner and the homeowner would not object to Kadizzle retrieving the golf balls. Then the angry rat went over to Kadizzle's ebike and acted as if he intended to break the spokes. Kadizzle looked at him and he got the message this was too much. 

Now the fun part. Kadizzle explained to the rat that it was great fun having the opportunity to yell at the rat and tell him what Kadizzle thought of the Trump cult. 

About a week later Kadizzle encountered the nice guy homeowner walking with his wife. Kadizzle asked the nice guy if it was OK to retrieve golf balls. The nice guy said sure. 

The next time Kadizzle saw the rat he informed him the homeowner had given Kadizzle permission to retrieve the golf balls. Apparently the rat was defeated, but no. The rat called the homeowner and made up a story that Kadizzle had been harassing him. The rat said the nice guy homeowner wanted Kadizzle to call him. So the rat gave Kadizzle the nice guys phone number. Right there with the rat Kadizzle tried to call the homeowner, but there was no answer. 

In summary the rat told the nice guy homeowner outrageous lies in order to further his cult lifestyle. This is the modern Republican quickly resorting to lies when thing go south. Trump has set a new standard for lying. 

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Something about this video sums it all up. 

Speaker Mike Johnson's Internet 'Accountability Partner' Was Teen Son

Before you check out this video, read the post before this one. Part of the insanity of this is it gives anyone the possible access to all of Mike Johnson's government information. 

The Train has left the track

If you thought Republicans could not get any crazier, wrong. Google Mike Johnson Covenant Eyes. The new speaker of the house brags he and his son use an app to check that they don't look at porn. The app will report to your partner in "Covenant Eyes" if you look at porn. The speaker of the house is monitoring his 17 year old son, and his son is monitoring him. What the hell? The speaker of the house needs to use an app to make sure he doesn't use porn. Mike Johnson has set a new standard for right wing insanity. Also Mike Johnson is a " Young Earther". What is that? It is a right wing religious dinger that thinks the Earth is only six thousand years old and that dinosaurs and men walked the Earth together. This is the United States 2023? We are in deep dinosaur shit.

He lives in a small world

 Once in the distant past riding in a truck with another manager, the fellow said to me about one of the dolts " He lives in a small world". It was the perfect description. How many people live in a small world? Obviously the whole Trump cult lives in a small scary world. Sometimes you have to back up to see the big picture. Seeing the big picture is key to a happy world. However, the small world suites too many too well. Republicans create a small world by staying in the bounds of Fox News, and Donald Trump.  What is the result? Chaos, hate, fear, and little scary stories. 

If the dingers would come out of the small world and embrace the real world where would we be? In a small world small problems become big problems. 

Lets change gears. The gun obsessed. Kadizzle knows so many men obsessed with guns. What is that all about. A neighbor just told Kadizzle about how he is going to buy a cannon like handgun. Kadizzle asked him who is after him. He said the bad guys don't come because they know we are armed. Why would the bad guys come in the first place? Are my socks keeping ghost away. I never see any ghost, it must be the fact I always wear socks. Cause and effect are hard for Hoopleheads to grasp. Do chickens cause eggs or do eggs cause chickens?  What about the good guy with a gun? The good guy has been doing a poor job. The bad guys with guns have killed a lot of people. 

Sat around the fire

With some new neighbors we sat around the firepit and had popcorn. Only the second or third time we have enjoyed the fire pit. The weather was perfect, the stars were out, and life is good. Grandpa got his flag pole up and we are in a neighborhood saturated with American flags. Payson people love to fly the flag and ban books. Just makes no sense how a flag town can support Trump. 

The doughnut meeting will meet today. Nice bunch of people who actually read factual information. Comforting to know there are people outside the cult. 

 An elk killed a woman in another part of Arizona this week. First time ever recorded in Arizona. Kadizzle was driving down Bonita street and saw a man taking a picture of something. There it was a huge bull elk resting comfortably about five feet from the road. Would not want to get that fellow mad at me. 

This brings us to our painter. One of his arms is withered and damn near useless. According to him it was from a pet rattlesnake bite. Sad when the brain dies. 

Cannot comprehend the insane state of our country and the world. The Biden Trump mess is something to behold. Biden should step aside and let a young person run. Trump is totally insane. In a country with over 300 million people there is no one better than these two. Biden had done a good job, but the Hoopleheads don't bend to reason. 

The Old White guys got the money

 We live in a strange world. Kadizzle moved into a newly constructed neighborhood. A lot of the people moved here with a pocket full of money from homes they sold in California. Others just came with the money they made from good jobs. Us old folk robbed the young. Watching people set up their new homes Kadizzle is amazed by how readily they spend cash for landscaping and whatever suits their fancy. On the other end of the game are the young people who cannot afford a home, college, or any of the old givens.

All of us old duffers are collecting nice social security checks we really don't need.  It is just icing on the cake. That money is coming from young working people. What we have done to the young is a crime. We have charged a good life style on the credit card of our children. The old and the rich have stolen the pie. 

Then you do have a whole bunch of Hoopleheads busted flat living on the margin. The old people who never figured it out are living on little more than social security. The wave is coming. Sometime in the near future there will be an abundance of busted flat young people trying to retire, and there will be the old duffers that live in the trailer surrounded by a chain link fence. Both will wonder what went wrong. Economic dismay brings dictators and guess who is licking his chops just waiting to tell more lies. 

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A B-17 Guy told me a story

 

  

Some years back old Kadizzle went to the air museum in Tucson. The man giving the tour of the B-17 told me about the machine gunner in the plane. He told me if the plane was hit the only way out for the ball turret gunner was to reach up into the plane and grab a parachute. The gunner had to fall out backwards from the hatch. On his way to the ground he had to put on the parachute. Apparently some actually accomplished this feat. There was no way the gunner could get up in the plane. 

The CAVEmen strike a blow to education.

 A group of Hooplehead called the CAVEmen prevailed in the school election in Payson. CAVE stands for Citizens Against Virtually Everything. Republicans hate educated people, and Trump loves the ignorant. The school system in Payson will suffer from the cuts. The Hoopleheads will get a new supply of idiots. 

This is just a preview of how the country will deteriorate under Trump. Normal people are asleep in a daze. Meanwhile the country is being ravaged by idiocy. It can't happen here. Oh, you think not. What is more fundamental than a decent school system? The dropout rate here is amazing. Arizona is near the bottom in education and the Hooples want to make it worse. 

The retired people who rely on the young want to starve them of an education. What sense does that make? Trump relishes stupid people, and Republicans help him every inch of the way. 

Up on the mountain, but no tablets

 Kadizzle cleared trails down at Roosevelt Lake, but now is back up on the mountain.  Winky stayed behind to enjoy the peaceful life in the Earth Module. Today Kadizzle is going to have his skin examined from head to toe. The large lump will be examined for skin cancer. Got some already and the nose will need 21 radiation treatments. 

The houses are sprouting like weeds around us. Four homes are under construction. 

Another nice day is on the horizon. Endless summer has been our life for a long time, and we are spoiled. No more North Dakota winters, blizzards, or stuck in the house. A lot of nice neighbors here. Kadizzle has one neighbor named grandpa. Grandpa is Kadizzles age, but dresses the part of an old grandpa with suspenders and blue genes. The other day grandpa even had on an engineers hat. Grandpa sits in his garage at the computer. Kadizzle and Grandpa exchange stories every day. That is what you do when you are old. You review your life when you were young. 

With Winky, Kadizzle attended the first real play in fifty years. Our seats were about ten feet from the actors. It was a comedy take off on Shakespeare. Amazing how people can memorize lines for a two hour play. 

Kadizzle cannot get his mind off the possibility of Trump as president. The vast supply of stupid people is something Kadizzle was never fully cognizant of in the past. We have entered a new era where people are proud to be simple minded. The Hoopleheads detest educated people and make sure you know they are not educated. Always amazing to hear a Hooplehead say " I don't read anything, or watch the news".  They may as well say " I am fat, dumb, and happy".  Being stupid is one thing, but wanting everyone else to join you is another, but that is what the Hooples are doing with their efforts to destroy the schools. 

To stick with Trump you have to live in a bubble fantasy world. You have to believe he is just a poor rich guy everyone is picking on. Growing up Kadizzle had a psychopath friend Charlie. Once you have known a psychopath you can spot them.  Trump is the classic psychopath. He will lie about anything. Trump doesn't have an ounce of sympathy for anyone, and the law is just a nuisance to be disobeyed. psychopaths are entertaining, and fun to watch. Charlie would insult people, and many times get beat to a pulp for doing it. Yet he did it over, and over. People ignored Charlie's crimes because he was a likable character. Like Trump, Charlie would steal from the church, the minister or anyone that came in his path. 

Once in college Kadizzle was with Charlie and we were having a meal with a minister. College kids had to eat where they could on Sundays when the cafeteria was closed. The minister made the mistake of bragging about the wine he got for Christmas.  When all the college kids walked out the front door after the meal, Charlie walked out the back door with the ministers wine. Didn't occur to Charlie the minister had just fed us. That is Trump, he will turn on anyone in a heartbeat. 

Another great game of Charlie's was robbing the people on his paper route. The old ladies would tell Charlie they would be gone and not to leave the paper. Now, that was a big mistake, they may as well have told Charlie to help himself. These were the same old ladies who gave Charlie a nice tip at Christmas. This is Trump all over again. Trump commits a crime and the cult members give him a tip. 

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The answer is right there

Every problem can be traced back to uncontrolled greed. Slice and dice it anyway you want, but all problems come back to the simple fact the rich have stolen all the resources. Poverty has a root cause, people are poor because they lack something. Where did that something go? The United States has homeless people with nowhere to sleep. At the Kadizzle house there are two unused bedrooms. Nation wide there are enough beds in good homes unused for everyone to sleep warm and comfortable. Kadizzles have two nice vehicles, many people have none. What about homes? How many people do we know with two homes? There is plenty of housing, just in the hands of the wrong people. There is plenty of money for roads, schools, hospitals, and you name it, but the rich took it all. The rich bought the goverment and had the goverment quit taxing them. Brilliant. So lets go on pretending there is some other cause of poverty. The King built a castle and moved in. The peasants built the castle. How hard is that to figure out. The peasant lived in a straw shack, and the King was in a castle. What changed?

Read Paul Krugman in the NYT today. Republicans live in a fantasy world

Kadizzle reads and enjoys the NYT every day. Today Paul Kruman explains how Republican live in a fantasy world. Yes, they do. Someone makes up a story they like, and they believe it, no questions asked. Yesterday Winky pointed Kadizzle to a post of a friend. It was an insane rant by Elon Musk. Musk just made crap up, but it sounded like the kind of stuff right wingers would like. Sure enough they do. Anyone can check the basis for a right wing rant, but why bother, just believe the nonsense. Fresh stories are always a hit at the Tea Party, and replaying the old lies works fine also. 

Back to the old " If you believe it, it is true".  One thing we taught our children was to question things. It worked wonders, both are bright well adjusted adults. What about the dingers? The Hoopleheads, and Dingers don't question, they just accept. If a guy drives a fancy car and wears a fancy watch then he must tell the truth because he is rich, right? Trump is a classic. Trump puts on the rich guy act and the Hooples eat it up. Using a gold toilet has paid off handsomely for Trump.  

A different World

The Kadizzles are down at the lake. The peacefulness is overwhelming. In the Earth Module Winky just had her beer and Kadizzle is in a fine state from a gin and tonic. Winky has decided to make tacos for super and the smell is already putting weight on Kadizzle. 

Kadizzle set up a solar panel that will provide a lighted path to the executive suite at night. The temperature is perfect, the sky is clear. Tonight we will enjoy stars and the quite. Maybe the coyotes will howl, or the owl will stop by. 

Here is this huge wonderful park, and it is almost empty. Our friends are nearby living the marginal life. If you are on a short budget you volunteer for the Forest Service. The Forest Service gives you water, sewer, and electricity in exchange for working three days a week. This arrangement allows marginal people to get by. Helping people of limited means is not as difficult as Republicans would like you to believe. A little help and kindness goes a long way. 

Can it get any more scary or depressing?

Don't like to beat a dead horse, but the New York Times now says Biden is losing the support of young people. What is it like to see Nazi Germany on the horizon? Imagine Trump back in the White House, the justice system is toast. Taxes will be completely eliminated for the rich and there will be an incredible economic meltdown. Evangelicals will ban books and come up with restrictions on the public schools that will make school children into Trumpers. 

This does not have to happen, but good people sit on their ass and watch thinking everything will be fine. Study your world war two history and concentrate on how Hitler came to power. The Germans were not a backward stupid country. People let it happen. The United States is about to end as we know it. This virus of ignorance is world wide. Why do people crave dictators, kings, and psychopaths?

Religion has always played a role in misery, and one more time the religious are about to rein insanity on people. Trump could not pull his con without the religious. The religious love to believe nonsense so they are the perfect people for Trump. Blinded by religious insanity the church people will do Trump's bidding. 

Young people seem to be lost in the forest. They don't pay attention to anything just like the Hoopleheads. The information is there, but it is meaningless if you don't read it. 

The End is Near

 Freedom as we know it will soon end. Read the New York Times today. Polls show Trump might win. Then read how Republicans are advocating a dictatorship. We are toast, the country is over, done, finished. The wave of stupidity has washed up beyond the beach. The Hoopleheads are infected with right wing lies and their stupidity is festering. Talk to some Hoopleheads if you want an experience. Republicans have divorced the simple minded from reality. Facts, math, science, and history have effectively been removed from the cement of the Hooplehead brain. Trump pisses on them and they think it is raining gold. 

Meanwhile people who are capable of think are singing zippity do da, zippity day. Educated people are scratching their testicles thinking, " Oh it can never happen here". Time to read some German history. Putin showed the super rich the government can work with the billionaires. Trump wants to try it here. Trumps mind is a swamp of ego and the Hooples don't care. The Hoopleheads can understand a king, the concept of democracy is too hard for them to grasp. The election of Mike Johnson says it all. The old Catholic Church used to have Cardinals, and Bishops who helped do the crime for a cushion life. Trump will pull the same stunt with his religion. The hacks will be rewarded for helping promote the lies. 

The Hooples brains have been stir fried on the internet. Yes, the Hooples are broke and living on credit cards, Yes, it will explode, and yes they will blame the Democrats for what the greed dogs did. What a miracle. The rich stole the money, and successfully blamed the poor. The rich have the money in their pockets and the Republicans have blamed the Democrats for giving the loot to the poor. 

As the infrastructure crumbles and the schools are so dumbed down the dazed Hooples get tatoos, wave Trump flags, and beg for more oppression.  You have to be drunk to fail to see that the IRS cannot collect the stolen money without agents to do it, but the Republicans are taking care of that.  Get ready for armageddon if Trump wins. Just imagine the havoc. Trump learned from his mistakes, next time he will have worse hacks, more crooked lawyers, and lickspittles. The Hitler mentality is coming supercharged on conspiracy theories and fairy tales for idiots. Fasten your seatbelt the turbulence will be the worst you ever experience before the crash. The current plan of the Republicans is to crash the economy so Biden looks bad. This amazing act of shooting our foot off will occur in a matter of weeks. Don't buy new shoes before you shoot your foot off, or at least remember to take your shoes off. All the happy snappy people paging through catalogs would do well to pick up something and read. 

A little lying always works for Republicans.

 

The Bicycle

Standing in front of the  bike shop waiting for them to open a young black guy wandered up. He wanted to buy  bike to get to work. We had a nice conversation. Think about it, this young guy wanted to work and he needed a simple device to get to work. 

Not too long ago Kadizzle read in the NYT about how a bike could change the life of a person in Africa. The simple device could be life changing. Kadizzle never thought the same thing is true in this country. Just getting to work is a big deal. Think about how much a bike expands the area where you can work. What a pain in the ass to take a bus. The poor kid was going to try to buy the bike on payments. Kadizzle gave the kid some money to help buy the bike. We have a lot of easy ways to help people get ahead, but we just don't think about the simple solutions. 

My precious granddaughter.

 

That little bug has grown into the perfect imitation of Marylin Munroe. Her performance in Cabarete was stunning. Of course Grandpa has to brag. She has been an actor and singer since she was born. Kadizzle used to love to hear her singing sailor songs he taught her while she played. Grandpa used to have to be a customer at her pretend hair style salons in the basement. Grandpa would go from one hair shop to the next where the proprietor had a different accent and personality. You could see her career coming.  

Now she is in the Denver School for the arts, one of the top rated schools in Colorado. Cannot wait to see that girl in a couple of weeks. To top it all off she has a great bubbling personality. Not a sulking depressed teen. 

Talking to working people

 Kadizzle talks to a lot of people. Kadizzle talks to the guys putting up the power poles and the guys laying cinder blocks. Working people are thoroughly confused. Republicans have successfully got working people believing the most insane nonsense possible. Working people don't get up in the morning and read anything. Working people get their social news from the people they hang around with and an infusion of right wing radio. Working people don't trust the goverment. It is amazing that Republicans have hijacked the government, but the working people blame the Democrats. The Democrats are not innocent. The Democrats have rolled over and played dead too long. Republicans cheat, lie, and tell scary stories'. Democrats beg and roll over. 

Working people don't have time to think, they just feel things. Working people feel they are getting screwed, and they are. Democrats are too dumb to realize they need to explain to the working people just how the Republicans screw them. 

Then you have a whole different group. The different group is the indifferent. Yesterday Kadizzle met a young black guy. Like so many he said he had no interest in voting.  You could vote yourself out of slavery, but what the hell slavery is fun. 

Talk to someone who is busted flat working hard for a living and you will find a confused and dazed person. Republicans know you can step Infront of the confused and dazed and lead them over a cliff. 

When a clown moves into a palace

 

The Clown is in Mar a Lago and the circus has begun. The new speaker of the house is the ring master, and the clowns are jumping out of the clown car. 

Disaster is looming. Republicans are set on burning down the house. 

Here in Phoenix recently a young person was killed at a house party. A young girl had a party that got out of hand and people showed up from everywhere. It only takes a small bunch at a large party to create a disaster. Republicans have proven that principle. How ten or eleven mentally ill Republicans can bring the government to a standstill is amazing. However, never forget the big clown in Florida. Without Bozo Trump none of this would be going on. Kids like clowns, and the Hoopleheads are kids in adult bodies. The Hoopleheads don't want government, they want the world series, or the Superbowl. This generation has been brought up on entertainment, not books and newspapers. It matters little what gets done or what happens, just make sure it is exciting. Look at NASCAR.  People drive in circles. The Hooples love it. Loud noises, smoke and wrecks. That is all the Hooples want. Republican dingers are fulfilling the demand for entertainment. Trump is a showman, a snake oil salesman. That is what sells. 

Who, but a low life Republican.

 As old Kadizzle completed a shower today Winky came into the bathroom and announced there was a policeman waiting in the garage. Kadizzle dressed and met Mike the friendly sergeant in the garage. The Republicans were up to their old tricks. Mike explained that a complaint had been filed about how Kadizzle drove his motorcycle this afternoon. Mrs. Kadizzle sent old Kadizzle to get some diatomaceous earth at the Ace Hardwares store. Nothing too exciting about the trip, but some dinger called the police and said Kadizzle was driving irregularly without the proper lights for the motorcycle. What was irregular? The policeman had no answer. Strangely the reported incident took place near the police department, and the very policeman in the garage saw Kadizzle drive by. The officer noticed nothing irregular. So that leaves us with the motorcycle lights issue. Officer Mike checked all the lights on the motorcycle and found them to be working. 

Black people can be arrested for driving while black. Apparently it is illegal to drive while voting Democrat in Payson, at least the Republicans think so. This crazy notion the Hoopleheads have that thinking differently is illegal gets to be strange. Kadizzle was a municipal judge for 25 years. No one was ever charged with driving irregularly. Only in Payson are you considered driving irregularly if you are heading to vote for a Democrat. So far Kadizzle has experienced at least four false police reports no doubt from the Hooplehaeds. Apparently they see no problem with just making stuff up. 

Ed had a birthday

 It has been a long trail. Over 23 years ago the Kadizzles set out on the great adventure of the southwest. In our first rickety camper we plugged south the first winter. Over that 23 years we have met so many good friends on the road, but the first good traveler we ever met was Ed. Winky had to have a look at Ed's camper and wandered over. Next thing you knew we were hiking, biking, and traveling together. Ed has set the world record for staying in a Casita consistently since Adam met Eve. Ed just turned 90. Ed has been around the block from airline pilot to jazz musician. 

A favorite memory of Ed is the picture in my mind of him playing his electronic piano in the back of his camper. It looks like a jukebox with a live puppet. When you see Ed sitting in the window you think " Where do you put the quarter in?".

Ed does not tolerate cold. If anyone every chased 72 degrees around the southwest it was Ed. Ed has has lived frugally. His carbon footprint would just be the toes. 

One thing Kadizzle could never figure about Ed is his fear of heights. Often Ed would decline a hike because of the high places. The strange thing is Ed used to fly a 747. Apparently he did not realize it was in the air. 

The Sun is struggling to rise in the sky

 What is the point? Kadizzle can hear the sun behind the mountains. The sun provides us with everything, and what do we do with it, waste it, and bomb each other. No wonder the sun doesn't want to rise. To see the human race squander the riches of the Earth is heartbreaking for the sun. It is all here, the soil, the water, you name it, we have it. The big question is what do we do with it? Somehow we pour the milk out, kill the bees that give us honey, and fill the ocean with plastic bottles. Any wonder the sun struggles to come over the mountains. We had a good climate, but we befouled it. We had ocean reefs, but we cooked them. 

The cause is right there, greed, a bigger house, fancier car, new shoes, and gold. Our most precious possession are our children and grandchildren, yet we spit on the very planet we will leave them. What in the hell went wrong when people became blinded? Anyone with two functioning brain cells can see Trump is a con man a crook, and the demise of freedom. How did the fog set in? Is it bad enough? No, we can make it worse and the Republicans are here to help. 

Change gears. Yesterday Kadizzle went to a hamburger joint and engaged the cashier in conversation. The cashier revealed he had dropped out of high school, but was going to go to college to be a comedian. Had no clue you could get a degree in laughter. Kadizzle explained to the genius that he was frugal and insisted on a 10% discount on everything. Then Kadizzle asked the cashier what 10% of fifty thousand dollars would be. Puzzled the cashier said $440 dollars. Hmmm, can a person working at a cash register be that dumb. Yep, this is Amarica, we are proud and stupid. However, maybe Kadizzle was wrong. Kadizzle was haggling with the young guy over a special offer that would have got him a seven dollar hamburger for 3 dollars. Somehow cashier genius managed to get Kadizzle two hamburgers for $2.72. That gets us to a special category, the idiot savant. Now there could be special people who cannot tell time but can play a masterpiece on the piano. There is another possibility. That is " A blind hog ol root" or even a blind hog can find an acorn. 

What if you had an army of stupid people? You could take over a country. A regular idiot figured that out, his name is Donald Trump. 

Smashed

 For old Kadizzle this picture brought back memories. For most of his career Kadizzle was the "Safety Director" at a large surface mine. Kadizzle dealt with at least five of these incidents. The worst was when two blasters were run over in their truck while having lunch. Both tried to jump out, only one made it. The guy stuck in the truck was folded in the seat and by some miracle survived relatively unhurt. The driver of the truck thought he backed over a rock, and pulled forward. 

In another incident Kadizzle got a call on the radio. The surveyor said he was having a problem with his truck. When Kadizzle got there indeed there was a problem. The front of the truck was cut off right at the dashboard. The tractor trailer haul truck came around a turn and the surveyor slid under the trailer in the mud. 

Then there was the day Milton ran over Art's truck. Art parked in a bad place. Milton came around the turn and mash potatoed Art's truck. Art was not in the truck, but he reached in the window and grabbed the radio. "Milton, you just ran over my truck", Milton replied " That's the first I heard about it".

They live in a special bubble

 They just don't read. Yesterday Kadizzle ran into a Hooplehead and asked the dinger where he got his information. Strangely every Hooplehead reacts the same way when you ask them how they know something. The Hooples never give you an answer. Somehow strange information gets into their head. Guilt by association, for sure there must be stupid by association. Unemployment is at almost a fifty year low, yet the Hooples actually believe it is near a fifty year high. 

The game has started, the new house speaker is acting like a little Trump already. Johnson want to cut the IRS budget. For every dollar spent on the IRS the government collects 12 dollars from the rich tax cheats. The Hooples think the IRS is going to come to their house with a gun to get money from them. Guess what, the Tea Party crowd is broke. 

Kadizzle is the only open liberal in the neighborhood. The right wingers want to make sure they are not identified as a Democrat so the flag poles are sprouting.

Sitting Here

Six Seventeen, a half cup of coffee left. The eyes look over toward the door going out to the deck. Through the glass is art. The sun is coming over the mountains to the East. The sun is not up, but the orange glow is making a silhouette of the trees. If only you could frame it. At the kitchen table with just the right glow from the light Kadizzle looks to the East. Now add to this the perfect music. A small dose of heaven. All of this and then how easily reality can quash it all. 

Over there where the sun is coming up people are bombing each other, kids are hungry, babies are being blown to pieces. All of this is brough to you by men like Trump, men like Elon Musk, men like Putin. These people are sociopaths. We love them. We love them because they have no respect for the rules. These killer, liars, and psychopaths do as they wish. If you would like to be a power hungry delusional Psychopath, join the club.  Payson has two chapters, the Republican Party, and the Tea Party.  Either club will help you believe what you shouldn't believe. You can believe immigrants are evil people, you can believe guns can solve every problem. Best of all you can believe Trump won. 

Although we now have two mass shootings a day, we have a way to go to catch up with Gaza and Israel. We can do it. The Republicans just elected a new speaker that will lead us to chaos it takes to bomb children. Just give it time. Republicans are doing their best. Meanwhile watch your favorite sports team, have a beer, get a tattoo, and barbeque. 

Sometimes they get it wrong

Older brother who is caught in the world of Trump told Kadizzle a story yesterday. By circumstance our family came to own 400 acres in the absolute middle of nowhere in West Virginia. The land has fallen into the hands of my brothers son. To get to this remote place you drive 100 miles towards nowhere. When. you get to nowhere after fifteen miles on a gravel road you have to drive across the Hughs river. Usually the river is about two feet deep, but if it has rained you cannot cross the river. Unable to cross the river then you must drive another twenty miles and drive up over a muddy road past the hillbillies. After passing the famous four corners where four dirt mud tracks come to gether you go down into the valley that has the old farm house.

Back in the sixties we laborted to restore the broken down farmhouse to livability.  No electricity, no running water, an outhouse, and free natural gas. Lighting was from old gas light fixtures father salvaged from old banks. No one has live in that farm house for almost a hundred years. 

Somehow, the gubberment got the idea the place needed internet. That same gobberment had decided long ago that place needed a phone. So now there is fiber optic internet to the farmhouse in Booneville. That is the name we gave the place. Brother who likes to bitch about the gobberment said in order to get internet there he has to take a generator. Undoubtably this was a massive waste of money. It must have take at least a mile or two of trenching and god knows what to accomplish this useless task. However someone made money doing it. Now before you get your undies in a bundle think about war. People make a fortune feeding the war machine. The war machine gets nice young kids killed. Putting internet to nowhere cost money, but no one gets killed. People like brother can focus on one thing, and not another. That is why brother likes the Trump idiocy.  

The insanity goes on. Brother did very well servicing the coal industry. Coal is dead, but Brother does not want to admit it. That is how delusion works. In Brother's world there is no climate problem. Brother lives in West Virginia. West Virginia is crumbling. The state is full of opioid Hooplehead that love Trump. West Virginia is the third poorest state in the nation, and they love Trump. What is wrong with this picture?

If I just had a ..........

 What would make me happy? If I just had a ....... Complete this sentence then think about how people complete the sentence. If I just had a tattoo, an earing, a jacked up pickup truck. If I just had a bigger house, or some old car I could take to a car show. If I just had more guns. If I just had a pack of cigarettes. 

Does it ever work? Sure you walk around town with a gun strapped to your side, but how long does the delusion work. Someone always has a better gun, a better house, or a better car. But why not give it a try. If I was just a senator, or president. Why not give it a try. What if I have to lie a little or cheat a little? 

It is a puzzle. You play a game, and you cheat. What satisfaction do you get? You know you cheated. Trump knows he cheated. The dolts probably know he cheated. The lickspittles know he lies and cheats, but they also know he can shed some voters on them. There is no honor among thieves. 

The flag wavers and Bible thumpers cheat. They don't follow the Constitution or the Jesus commands. How strange is that. You get to wave the flag, but you don't have to engage your brain. You get to go to church, but you can hate anyone you want. That is cheating. 

Once upon a time old Kadizzle was invited to a dinner to honor veterans. Who should show up by Senator Kevin Cramer, one of Kadizzle's arch enemies.  As fate would have it Kadizzle would end up being a table mate of Senator Cramer. Wait there was a solution. Someone put Kadizzle up in front of the room seated with a table of wounded veterans that were being honored. The seating gave the impression Kadizzle was a wounded veteran. Kadizzle never even served in the Salvation Army. Kadizzle sat there like a fool. Can you just sit somewhere and become something. Hopefully the answer is no, but think about the people who are phonies. Think about Trump. Not for one moment did Kadizzle think he deserved any honor. Yet Trump baths in the lie he lives. Think of the dolts that bath in the light reflected from Trump. Do they really believe that light has any warmth?