Tucker Carlson

Every so often Kadizzle encounters a Hooplehead and a conversation ensues. Kadizzle scratches his head and wonders, where do the Hooples come up with this stuff? In recent days Kadizzle has checked out Tucker Carlson a couple of times. Tucker can make a Hoople on strings dance like a pro. Tucker's expertise is takeing two unrelated things and making up a story about how A affects B. when in reality there is no relationship. Tucker connected 12 dead whales with wind turbines in the ocean. Now the ploy is beautiful and demonstrates a classic Hooplehead gambit.  

Tucker's underlying theme is the people who make wind turbines are paying politico to attack Tucker. Unmentioned is the fact Tucker is on the side of The Republicans who don't want clean energy. Of course the Hooples cannot put this altogether. Tucker says lookout the wind turbine companies are evil and killing whales. Something Tucker just made up. Tucker's Republicans on the other hand are killing whole planet with their endless greed. No mention of that by Tucker. 

Rush Limbaugh used to be the master of making the Hooples dance. Now Tucker is in the running. Trump could make a Hoople dance the jig while he cleaned their pocket. Republican congressmen have learned making Hooples dance pays. Majorie Taylor Green an idiot in her own right, has raised millions making the heads on Hooples spin with lies. It is just to easy. 

6:05

No more sleeping. Old Kadizzle is up, the coffee is ready, and here we go. The sun is over there behind the mountains. It is still dark out. Soon the world will come alive for one more day. The Earth will spin, even Trump cannot stop it. We are spinning East at about 1, 600 kilometers per hour. Hopefully that will not spill the coffee. 

Most of us will wake up as dazed and confused as we were yesterday. Little Mrs. Kadizzle is down at the lake and surely the trail crew is about to get going. Someone has to keep the country safe for democracy, and that is no simple task with Republicans wrecking havoc with lies, and tax cuts for the wealthy. We do our best. 

One thing keeps Kadizzle going is fighting for the grandchildren. As Republicans are bent of destroying the Earth itself, our economy, the American way of life, and any type of decency Grandpa must battle the Hoopleheads. Almost forgot guns. Since Republicans have made sure every lunatic has a gun, now we all have to worry about our children and loved ones getting blasted to hamburger because it gets votes for the Republicans. If you asked a Hoople to give up their gun or their penis, the penis would have to go. A penis is handy, but it will not save you at the grocery store from a deranged liberal.

In the background Kadizzle is trying something new this morning, KJAZZ radio. The Hooples are awakening and getting their first does of Fox News. So far Kadizzle has perused the NYT, NPR, and a few other newspapers.  

A thought went through what's left of Kadizzle's mind yesterday. If we are under attack from the border with Mexico, where are the attackers? We live in Arizona, and visit Tucson.  You just don't see the attack. 

Now this reminds Kadizzle about the latest Republican ploy. The Republican governor wanted to make a publicity splash, so he used shipping containers to hold back the immigrants. A wall of shipping containers was placed on the border. It was a waste of millions, but got some press. Now, in Payson there is a plan to bring the shipping containers here for the homeless, and those needing housing. It cost millions to put the containers there, and it will cost millions more to get rid of them. So what it impressed the Hooples, and helped keep them scared. 

 

Goat Feed

 What do you feed old goats? Well if you are at the Tea Party you feed them lies, but the most important thing to feed old goats is social security. Old goats are not careful readers. If they were reading or watching something other than right wing media they would see Republicans are trying to cut off their goat feed, social security. 

Yesterday Kadizzle took the long way home. When you drive through the land where the goats live on social security you can see they live on the edge. The only thing keeping the goats from going over the edge is social security. Strangely the goats vote for the very party that wants to take away their only means of support. 

How do the goats do it? How do the goats go to the Tea Party meeting and support the very people who want to take away the goat feed?

Feeding the goats takes money the rich feel is theirs. The rich don't want to feed the goats. The best way to steal goat feed is to distract the goats. Get the goats riled up about something else like the border or abortion, or guns. Goats cannot concentrate or think deeply, so occupying a goats mind with something exciting always works. 

Most goats don't realize how close to disaster they are. One car wreck, one medical problem, one trailer fire, and boom they join the bums on the street. Strangely Republicans claim they are for self sufficiency. Take social security from the goats and see how quick they sink without the life preserver. 

Simply raising the price of gas, or eggs gets the goats riled. What will it do when Republicans slowly carve away the social security check. Of course at the Tea Party this never gets brought up. 

The tale of the devious Hoopleheads

The Republican Hoopleheads tried three different strategies to cause problems for Kadizzle. All three fizzled. Today Kadizzle was notified of the last failure of the Hooples. The local Hoopleheads made a great kerfuffle about Kadizzle being arrested at their Trump nest. Most people know the difference between being arrested, and being found guilty. Kadizzle was indeed arrested when he tried to confront the Hooples about gun control. However, he was never convicted. Naturally the Hooples are not going to inform you of that. 

Another ploy by the Hooples was to have someone call Senator Kevin Cramer's office, claim they were me, and threaten to punch him. This ploy was helped along by Cramer, and Rob Port. Two Capitol Police showed up at our house, costing the taxpayers about eight thousand dollars. They interviewed me and left on July 13, 2022.  Never heard from them again. Kadizzle suspects they checked phone records and found out it was a Republican hoax. Taxpayers footed the bill for the cost of flying two policemen from Washington, D.C. to Payson. 

The locals had another plan. The local Republicans had a restraining order filed against Kadizzle. It was filled with lies and false information. Instead of having it removed like Kadizzle should have, he simply let it expire. Knowing it could create problems the Republican Hoopleheads made several false police reports hoping to get Kadizzle jailed.  Apparently the Payson Police are on to the Republicans and that scam failed miserably.  

There is a lesson in this. The Republicans are ruthless. Lying doesn't phase them. In the Republican mind supporting the cult is all that matters. The means is irrelevant. A friend always records his encounters with the local Hooples. He knows their record for deceit.

Kadizzle has confronted several of the kingpin Hooples who were no doubt a part of these schemes. None of them had the courage to admit what they had done. Trump will not show up in court, his minions will not show up at hearings. The cult knows reality and truth are their worst enemies. 

The Republicans in North Dakota danced to the Trump music, but Kadizzle will say they had enough decency to keep their evil under some control. Not so with the Arizona gang.  Just look at the news and you can see why Arizona has a rattlesnake problem and North Dakota does not. The Republican vermin hid under rocks, behind liars like Kari Lake, and Wendy Rodgers. 

What is the moral of this story? If you think the Hooples play fair, wake up. It is the Hooples that carry guns, threaten people, hold closed meetings, and make false police reports. As the old song goes " You don't have to be a weatherman to know which way the wind blows".  

Robbing the Hoopleheads

The lazy man's road to riches usually involves bilking the Hoopleheads. Trump know the art well. However, one of the oldest techniques still thrives today and that is the lottery, or just plain gambling. If you want to put out some bait to catch a Hoople just get a slot machine or a lottery ticket. Nothing works better to empty the pockets of the poor than selling them false hope. Always tell them they will win, when they are sure to lose. 

Kadizzle stopped by the library and bought his usual bundle of used magazines. In the New Yorker (Another forbidden magazine for the Hooples) Kadizzle came across an interesting article on the history of the lottery and how destructive it is to the the poor.

You have seen them at the grocery store or the gas station, bums, the downtrodden, and the other delusional getting in line to have their pockets cleaned. The biggest lottery has always been the churches. Pay so much a month and get a chance for eternal life. 

Now do a simple calculation like Kadizzle did. Back when Kadizzle lived in Hazen he calculated how much money went into gambling in the little town of about 2,800 people.  It was easily $3,000 a week. What could Hazen have done to improve life for everyone for that 3k? Well the real irony was the money taken from the fools actually made life worse. The same dingers that opposed every tax on Earth supported the tax on stupidity. If you are going to tax stupidity there is no better way than gambling. 

Maybe you are the kind of person with a functioning brain and have not visited a casino.  Do it just to see old goats pouring social security checks down the drain. Visit a bingo hall, again you will see a storm of stupidity like never before. Bingo you're broke, bingo you cannot make the car payment, bingo you cannot pay the utilities. 

There are better ways. Right here in Payson they just found an older couple who put granny in the freezer. When granny passes away don't tell anyone. Just put her in the freezer and keep collecting the SS check.  Then take Grannie's money and buy lottery tickets. 

 

Only 26 Russians reading Kadizzled

Just checked. The Russians reading this nonsense have dwindled to 26. Putin't crack down on the media is working. The Tea Party crack down on free speech follows the Russian example of stamping out dissent.  

Bullitin for the Hoopleheads

Although it is sacrilegious if you are a brave Hooplehead read the story about Bill Barr in the NYT today. It might bust you cult delusion about Trump. Remember who Bill Barr was Frank, Jeff B.?  Barr was a loyal Trump dog, but is now trying to reclaim his name by exposing the jerk Trump is. Read the article or just do the old Hooplehead thing and say, "Thats the New York Time, run by the Jews".  Fox will not mention it. 

Ebike Warriors

On a wonderful ebike ride yesterday we stopped to rest. At the rest stop on the desert trail were about twelve other old ebike warriors. It was nice to see older people out enjoying the world on bikes. Electric bikes are coming on strong. Electric locomotion is coming like it or not. At the root of electric transportation is the simplicity of electric motors and the improvement in batteries. Any small incremental improvement in batteries will make a huge difference in the revolution. The Kadizzles traveled about 20 miles over rugged desert trails on only half a battery. 

If American cities were designed to accommodate ebikes it would be wonderful. If you try one chances are you will buy one. The bikes are great transportation for bums, and you can see the bums are early adapters. 

The transition to electricity as a power source for mobile equipment will change the world. Amazing machines for doing various work are popping up. The great thing is the lack of noise. 

Evolution of the Klan

The purpose of the Klan was to enforce white supremacy. In the good old days the Klan could dance around in their silly outfits and harass people, lynch people, and spread hate. As a society we have changed and the people of the Klan ilk have to be a little more subtle, but those people are still with  us. The most obvious are those flying the confederate flag. Right behind them are those flying the Trump flag. 

Coded messaging is the new dress code for the Klan mentality. One needs to keep in mind religion was a major part of the Klan. Catholics and Jews were not invited to Klan meetings. The mixing of the Klan mentality and religion is still with us today. You don't have to scratch too deep to realize it was the evangelicals who elected Trump. If there was a grand wizard of the Klan today, it would be Donald Trump. 

In the old days it was the sheets and pointed hat that the Klan members signaled with. Today it is the "Go Brandon" crap, and of course the MAGA hat. Back in the old days the Klan appealed to a certain element of society, nothing has changed. 

It was the poor whites who feared black people would take their jobs. Now it is immigrants who are the new black people. Black people were forced to work in low paying difficult jobs. Does that sound familiar to what we do to immigrants today.  

Just like beer we now have Klan light. The Klan liked violence intimidation, and of course lynching's. Who wanted Mike Pence lynched? It was Donald, the grand Wizard.

The childhood whore house.

The video below features a house called Echo Manner. As kid, little kids, we used to live close to this house. Kadizzle can remember going in the back of the house into the basement to ask the women for candy. As young kids we had no idea the women were prostitutes. Early in the day they would be sitting around a long wooden table smoking. Later in life we found out what was going on. 

Another thing that took place on the upper floor was an auction. Can also remember my older siblings bidding on things they had no intention of buying. Their mission was to bid up the price when they got a signal from someone. It must have worked.  

Dissecting Wheeling - Chicken Neck Hill - US Route 40 - The National Road

Waiting for the rule change

Some poor soul is tasked with making the new rules for the Payson Tea Party. The new rules will keep out dissent, and enforce party loyalty. How is this going to work? The old Tea Party Page said " Show up and speak up". Will the new welcome say " Show up and shut up" ?   

As mentioned before old Kadizzle was ostracized from the Payson Tea Party not for sitting at their meeting being a good boy, but for being mean to Frank, and Jeff B, along with other Hooples on this blog. 

The Payson Republicans searched every once of social media and even the news media in North Dakota, along with Youtube to find any dirt they could on old Kadizzle. If you are thinking about joining the Payson Tea Party be prepared for them to go through your underwear drawer. 

One trick the local Hoopleheads pulled on Kadizzle was cranking up their rumor mill. So even if they find no dirty underwear in your drawer they can still just make up a story and set it adrift.  You will be kept from taking communion. Shirley is the Pope, but the thugs are the cardinals who make sure Shirley tows the line. 

This brings up the question, who would want to attend a Payson Tea Party meeting?  The truth is the meetings are boring repeats of Fox News, and right wing media. You could just as well get a chair at a funeral home. However, it is amusing to hear the latest scoop on the groomers, the local communist or the latest fabrication. It was fun to hear the crazy election spinning. You do get to see how the right wing politicians make the Hoopleheads dance with fear and paranoid stories. Like little kids the Hooples sit there and soak it up. 

Now if you home is under attack from termites you might want to know how termites live, socialize, and communicate. The Hooples are the termites the Republicans use to tear down the foundation of our democracy. They don't have a queen bee,  they have a king liar named Donald.  Donald leads the charge by showing the worker bees how to lie, distort, and feed the nectar of tax cuts to the rich. 

If you were a social scientist there would be no better place to study how the working class is abused than a Tea Party meeting. Rest assured you will not be surrounded by intellectuals who understand research. What motivates the worker bees?  As stated too many times here it is the " someone is after our stuff" game. Someone is after their culture, their religion, their money, and their guns. 

 

The Bike is Charging

 The ebike just got plugged in and is gaining electrons for the day. Today the two old peddlers will head out for an ebike excursion.  The trend is catching on and more places to ride trails are popping up. Once you try an ebike there is a good chance you will buy one. Kadizzle says spend the money and get a good one. The Chinese are selling decent bikes cheaply, but if you want to do real trail riding you will need a good bike. 

On another subject someone tell Kadizzle how you get young people to recognize and fight the threat of the Hoopleheads. The Hooples are toys of the rich Republicans who use them to get the tax breaks they crave.  Young people just don't pay attention to the Republicans eroding their future. Republicans are stealing their wages, their retirement, and their happiness just to make sure those with too much have more. 

Yesterday Kadizzle sat with the group of older Democrats and tried to figure how we could locally save the future from the wrath of the Hoopleheads. Someone else brought it up, but the Hoopleheads have a monopoly on spreading senseless fear. On the other hand Democrats need to spread the real fear of a bleak future without the social safety nets. 

Black people can get motivated when the police bust them on the head, but what does it take to motivate a young white person struggling to get a decent life?  If you have an idea share it. 

What do the Hoopleheads read?

Today Kadizzle had some good conversations with some good Democratic women. Kadizzle was pleased to know they read real respectable news from sources like the Washington Post, The New York Times, and Heather Cox Richardson. 

Ask a Hooplehead what they read or where they got their information. Usually they will just look at you confused, but you can quickly tell the information they operate on came from Fox News, or right wing radio. Hoopleheads are very careful about what goes in their head. Factual information confuses them.

In the world of the Hoopleheads the only factual information is the information that agrees with them. If they start to read something they feel they don't agree with they put it down. It is just like a Tea Party meeting. If you say something they don't agree with you will be asked to leave. 

Unchallenged information is generally not really information.  The first thing dictators go after is the press. Remember the guy who always shouted fake news, yup the hero of the Hooples. 

 

Wow, A note from Shirley, this says it all

Shirley is Kadizzle's hero in a roundabout fashion. One thing you have to give her credit for is she is brave. Secondly, Shirley clearly understands the concept of free open discussion. This is the note she sent to the thugs. 

"On a personal note you will be happy to hear I have finally given in and told Mike Quinn he may no longer attend any of our meetings. We are changing our literature to read: We invite only fiscally, socially, and Constitutional America first conservatives to join us. It is really sad that after 13 years we have been forced to limit who can attend our meetings. So, now all those who have threatened to leave the Payson Tea Party if I allow him to come can stop all the gossip and quit criticizing me every time you see me. Thank you Shirley"

Shirley hit the nail on the head " It is really sad that after 13 years we have been forced to limit who can attend our meetings".  Now put this in your pipe and smoke it. Shirley told Kadizzle he could come to the meetings if he was not disruptive. Kadizzle obeyed this rule to the letter. Kadizzle never said anything in any of the meetings.  Now, for the real kicker. What got the Hoopleheads undies in a knot was this blog. Poor old Frank, and Jeff B. were very embarrassed about this blog. 

Think about the implications. If you want to attend a Tea Party Meeting the oath of loyalty is pretty hard core. Not only must you swally the tea, but you cannot speak ill of anyone or anything that goes on outside the Tea Party. No dictator, communist, or cult leader ever had a more iron clad closure of reality. 

The most amazing lesson in this is how the Payson Tea Party turned on Shirley.  A woman who had a sense of right and wrong, and morality was attacked and harassed by the hard core Hoopleheads that wanted no part of fairness. What a lesson in how cults work. 

Can cults operate in secret?  Look at Trump's cult, someone always spills the beans. The Supreme Court had a leak. The Tea Party will have leakers, be assured. Why do they have to operate in secret to begin with?  When you are doing evil, disgusting things, or just plain lying it is best to keep it secret.

One message is very clear with the Payson Tea Party, there will be no dissent. If Kari Lake shows up to lie to the Tea Party no one will challenge her. Remember when Trump suggested to his audience they throw out the news media?  Well that is the Tea Party modus operandi, don't let people know how crazy we are.  It all ultimately blows up. Decent people catch on to the game. Ironically the decent person in this case is Shirley.  

Think about this, who will administer the purity test? Clearly the local editor will be excluded from the meetings. He sinned grievously against the Tea Party. There are other heretics attending the meeting who have not be expunged. The whole thing will end up like a good old witch burning. Who decides who is a witch. Remember how they used to dunk women in water. The Hoopleheads would do well to read about "ducking stools".  Women suspected of being witches, or just too troublesome were tied to a stool and dipped in cold water.  Shirley wear something warm to the next meeting, maybe a raincoat would work. 

Maybe the Tea Party cult has not thought this gambit through. Excluding people may blow up in their face. What if the Tea Party invites an elected official to come blow smoke up their rectum? Now, the meeting has become a public meeting. The public is entitled to know what elected officials say. Most states have open meeting laws that keep cults from excluding people when elected officials speak. How will the Tea Party have Wendy Rodgers come and tell lies in private? Isn't the public allowed to know what Wendy Rodgers tells the cult. This could go two ways. First, the cult might decide not to have any elected officials come speak. What fun would that be? Second, the cult might have Wendy Rodgers speak and exclude normal people. Then what? It seems like it might result in a law suite. 

How is all this going to work when people running for office want to address the Tea Party?  Will the sign at the door say " If you don't agree with the person speaking today, do not enter".  Of course all this will help the thug business. Frank and Jeff B. might want uniforms with the Payson Tea Party symbol on it. Kadizzle suggest the three monkey symbol. Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil. The Nazis had the Brown Shirts (Read about them).  That model might work well for the Tea Party. 

There are no facts

Yesterday Kadizzle had a long discussion with a Hoople. Afterwards it occurred to him how Hooples logic works. Around and around Kadizzle and the Hoople went about taxes, the oil reserve and so on. When Kadizzle suggested we revert to checking the actual data the same thing happened that always happens with a Hoople discussion. The Hooplehead knew he would get in a mess if the real data was checked. We were arguing about how much oil comes out of the national oil reserve. It is a knowable thing. 

Once you decide to pin a Hoople down with data you can be assured of one thing, what you cite is unreliable. Of course the New York Times just makes up it's data. Then you go to government data, again it cannot be trusted.  What you quickly find is the only data that can be trusted is the information from some silly source that supports the Hoopleheads belief. 

Arguing with Hooples you will quickly find they never check the sources of the information the live by. If Tucker Carlson said it, it is true. If Alex Jones mentioned it, you can count on it. The Hoopleheads never dig into what Trump, Hannity, or any of the right wing guys say, they just buy it. 

If a Hoople tosses a pair of dice and they don't land the way he wants the dice are loaded. 

Nothing shows the mind of a Hooplehead better than the election deniers. With absolutely no evidence they claimed Trump won. Judges whose job is to sort out the facts say Trump clearly lost, but for the Hooples that was not the right answer. 

No matter what you told a Hoople, or showed a Hooplehead, they insisted on their own reality.  When you argue with someone who takes the liberty of just making up things you will lose. 

Spotting a Dinger

Spotting a dinger is not that hard. Some people like to do bird watching, but you can have a hobby of spotting the simple minded. A " Let's go Brandon" sticker is a sure sign you are in the presence of the mentally deficient. Now some bird spotters use the bird call to identify birds. The same works with dingers. A dinger will make a call to the other dingers with a loud truck or motorcycle. Some dingers simply use a noisy car. Of course a good dinger will have a Trump sticker. At the grocery store the dinger will be the guy with a gun on his hip. Also most dingers will have an NRA sticker on the truck. Now to dinger trucks. All dingers will have a loud exhaust. A good dinger will have his truck jacked up to where you need a ladder to get in. The ultimate dinger will have huge exhaust pipes like a over the highway truck. Dingers love stickers and a good sign of a dinger is a gun symbol on the ding mobile. 

Now that truck is a dingers dream. 

Ok, you think you spotted a mentally subprime. How can you be sure? Nothing says dinger like a confederate flag. 

Another key to the ultimate redneck, Hoople is a total disrespect for the environment. A good dinger will toss garbage out the window, or blast fumes into the air. These dolts don't respect your lungs, and they will have a cigarette in their mouth to ruin their own. Talk to the young ones and they will tell you college is a waste of time. They can be a welder and do just fine. All dingers worth their membership will have a handgun. Dingers are lost in the wilderness. If you spot the same truck driving up and down the main drag, what do you have? A lost dinger looking for a mate. Somehow dingers manage to spot female dingers. When they mate they produce little dingers. Is there a cure? No. Usually ignorance will land you in a trailer park, and often it will kill the affected when the jacked up truck fails to negotiate a turn. Dingers can be there own worst enemies. Shooting each other at the bar in a drunken fantasy is a common end to the life of the confused. Trump showed the danger of dingers high on idiocy when he fired them up to invade the Capitol. Dingers do occasionally migrate. The best way to see hundreds is to go to a Trump rally.

Spot the dinger

• 10 points a confederate flag
• 8 points Trump sticker
• 12 points black plume of smoke from truck
• 6 points loud motorcycle
• 4 points NRA stickeer
• 20 points wearing a side arm
• 15 points Lets go Brandon sign
• 30 points huge exhaust pipes
• 20 points large Trump flag
• 12 points Don't tread on me sticker
• 10 points senseless acceleration
• 20 points Two large flags flying on back of Truck
• 20 points combining Jesus with Trump stickers

Ok, now you have a new game to play with the kids while driving. 

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In Case you missed it

 A strange phenomenon was reported on CNN yesterday. The center of the Earth is going to spin the other way. No this is not a made up bit on nonsense, like Trump will show his taxes. This apparently happens about every 70 years. 

Now for the BS. What does this mean if the center of the Earth spins the other way? Does this mean people will defund the military nonsense? Does it mean women will be treated as equals? Does it mean science will make a comeback? Does it mean Fox News will tell the truth? 

We can be thankful only the center of the Earth will reverse direction. Having the sun come up in the West would be very confusing. It could mess up the calendar. If the center of the Earth spins the other way does that mean the center of the Republican Party could spin the other way? It is hard to get a large mass to spin the other way.  Republicans are a large mass of greedy, ill informed people. What if they did spin the other way and actually cared about the poor, promoted education, and health care? What if Republicans felt for the poor, the immigrants, the young pregnant girls? When the birds fly North in the winter you will know things have changed. When the Tea Party welcomes everyone you will know the spin has changed. Until then we can only hope, but for now only the center of the Earth will spin differently. Check Fox News to see if they are still spinning the same way. 

Danger, danger, Frank, Jeff B.

Of course Frank, and Jeff B. will not read the New York Times, but wow did the NYT do a blast on Trump's network Truth Social. All the ads target the idiocy of the Hoopleheads. No respectable company will advertise with Trump so all his ads are for scams to bilk the Hoopleheads. Are the Hooples really that pathetic, is Trump? Bilking the Hooples doesn't bother the psychopath one bit. If you are a Hoople bust out of your bubble and read the article about fake gold this and that. Trump is the master con man and he has no mercy on the people he cons. 

The Hooples are a strange bunch. There is another article in the NYT by Paul Krugman the Hooples would do well to read. Rural people generally don't like the urban people of the big cities or the well educated for that matter. One thing the people out in the land of the red states feel is they don't get their share of the goodies. Well that just ain't so.  The rural Hooples actually are the biggest welfare cheats. It is the people back in the hinterland that get the most federal subsidies. North Dakota is a good case in point.  For every dollar North Dakota sends to the federal government it gets $1.78 dollars back. Not a bad deal. North Dakota gets mentioned in another article. It is the fourth best place to raise kids. Guess what state is about the worst for raising Kids Frank? Yes, Frank it is Arizona. The schools in Arizona thanks to the Hoopleheads are about the worst in the country. Where do they make Hoopleheads? Schools that are deprived of funds and harassed by the Republicans produce Hooples, plain and simple. Good teachers want nothing to do with Arizona schools. No teaching science or anything that smacks of reality. So what do you end up with? Maybe people who buy fake $1,000 bills supposedly made of gold on the Trump social media site. There is something called math. Do the math. What if you had 71 million idiots who would vote for Trump? How many of those idiots would vote for Kari Lake or Wendy Rodgers? No matter what number you come up with it is scary. Wendy got elected by the local Hooples. 

Try this math. Subtract your social security from all your income. Hmm, not much left for keeping up the trailer, or going to the casino. That is math, the kind the Republicans are cooking up for the Hooples. Destroy social security, take away health care, and what do you have? A homeless Hooplehead begging in front of Walmart. Now for the zinger, who do the Hooples vote for? Yup, they vote for the very people driving them into poverty. Republicans destroyed unions. Unions gave the Hooples a living wage. Not anymore. Why do Hooples love shooting their foot off? For the same reason they like drugs, alcohol, and gambling. It gives them false hope to believe in a con man like Trump. Trump will do the impossible. Trump will fight their oppressor. One major problem, Trump and his gang are the oppressors. Sure the mafia seems like they are there in bad times to sell you on the numbers racket, but aren't they the same ones with the protection racket, or in Trump's case the ones who bust up the Capitol? In the end the Hooples just want drama and a good story. Forget about the basics. A long time ago the secretary of agriculture lose his job when he made the following remark to a reporter on a plane " All black people want is a new pair of shoes, and a warm place to shit". That is what Trump really thinks of the Hoopleheads. All they want is a red hat and an envelope to send him money. When Trump attacked the Capitol it was a good show. That is all the Hoopleheads need is a little excitement, and no substance. 

Go Brandon down at the Jesus thrift store.

Stopped in at the Jesus store on Main Street. There they were the go Brandon stickers. The big cheese says no talking politics at the Jesus store, but it is just fine to have the offensive stickers on display. Unless you have been living under a rock you know what the obscenity is the Republicans promote with the code sticker " Go Brandon". Jesus has taken a new twist. As reported earlier the Jesus wagon goes down the highway and the old goat will give you the finger if you suggest they jail Trump. 

The new Jesus is nothing like the old one. The Republican Jesus thinks it is just fine to vote for Trump, give you the finger, or put a Go Brandon sticker on the cross.

You know religion was doomed when Republican evangelicals gave up any pretense of morality and voted for Trump. The new Jesus does not call his gang the disciples, nope, now it is the Proud Boys.  

When churches sponsor the Trump gang you know you got a problem. Of courser the same churches will not stand up against gun thugs, and the NRA. Nope, the old Jesus loved little children Kadizzle was told in Sunday school. The new Jesus is armed and doesn't mind if guns are as common as weeds. Let the little children be shot to hamburger is the new normal with the New Jesus. 

Will the new Jesus support Trump this time? The Republican Jesus said three wives and pussy grabbing was fine. So chances are good the new Republican Jesus will get on board with the lying tax cheat once more. 

 

John Prine

If you haven't been a fan of John Prine, then you need to start. Below is his song Your Flag Decal won't get you into heaven anymore.  As always with John Prine the lyrics are great. Of course here in Hoopleland flying flags is a special thing. Most of the Trump flags have come down, but the hard core Hooples still wave the flags. It is nice if you meet someone with a Trump sticker or flag you know right away what you are dealing with.  

Your Flag Decal Won't Get You into Heaven Anymore

Every Luxery

 Over a year ago we moved into our new home in Payson, AZ.  Since then we have gradually made sure we have every luxury two older people want. The kitchen is bigger than we need with still empty drawers, and cabinets. The temperature works on a smart thermostat. Buttons control everything even the blind on the huge window in the bedroom. 

Two days ago Kadizzle got the ultimate luxury. After continual pestering by his family the old goat got hearing aids. No more "What" or please repeat. One of the greatest things is the phone broadcast a bluetooth signal right into the hearing aids. 

Bulletin for the Hoopleheads.  Being paranoid is a favorite Hoople passtime and one of their favorites is " the government is listening to me".  Surely the government can pick up the hearing aid radio signal. Now the government will know everything Kadizzle hears. When Kadizzle hears what the dingers are doing, the government will know. Pity the poor government people who have to listen to Kadizzle and the Hooples. Kadizzle does not even know what he will have for breakfast, but soon he may. Will the government hear the eggs frying. The real question is what would the government do with the information. It could be classified and put in Bidens garage or Trumps bung hole.

So here we go, another day.  It will be a gambling day. The simple minded will have a great deal of fun slowly or quickly giving away their money. If you want to hear delusion talk to someone who claims to win gambling. Money that could be spent for civic improvement goes up in flames. The same Hoopleheads that bitch about gas prices don't blink when they light a hundred dollar bill on fire. 

Kadizzle read the NYT today. A scary article wrote about the possibility of Trump running again.  Will the Hoopleheads shoot their other foot off? The Hooples talk about all the great things Trump did, but they are pressed to name anything. One thing Trump did for sure was triple the deficit with his tax cuts for the rich. Explain that Tea Party. 

There is still a skifle of snow on the ground. What is a skifle? You can guess. Sometimes Kadizzle does what the Hooples do, he just make up what he needs. Kadizzle needed a word for a little bit of snow, just made up the word skifle. It sounded right. That is how the Hooples do it. If you need something, just make it up. Incidentally that is how the word Kadizzled got started. Ed was playing Mexican Train and he said " I am Kadizzled".  Now the word has spread, and others claim the origin, but Kadizzle can assure you Ed started the word. 

Today's lecture: You know what you know, and you don't know what you don't know. The problem for Hoopleheads is they can't sort out what they know and what they don't know. A good Hooplehead thinks he knows Trump won the election, but Trump lost. The Hoople doesn't know what he doesn't know. The key to knowing most things is to test your knowledge. You don't really know a flame is hot until you get burnt.  You don't really know how devious and dumb Trump is until you see him selling trading cards, or cheating at golf. 

Now what you don't know. Really you don't know what is on Hunter Biden's laptop. Nor do you know what is in the classified documents under everyone's bed. 

Admitting you don't know something is hard, but it is crucial. Once you drop over dead you don't know what happens next. Simple solution, make something up. That will get you in a lot of trouble and can be expensive. If you are a Mormon it will cost you ten percent, and most churches do not sell fantasy for free. 

George Santos the most recent champion liar of the Republican Party sold the ill informed a bill of goods, and refuses a refund. Santos lied about everything he could, just like Trump, Kari Lake, Eli, and the rest of the gang. Santos pushed the limit on lying. What did he discover? Santos discovered you lie even more than Trump and no one would notice. What Santos figured out was you could lie to both sides. Imagine him in court he could lie for the prosecution or the defense. Santos figured why just lie to the Republicans. Santos had lies for the Democrats, and different lies for the Republicans. A good liar can raise money. One thing Santos perfected was the costume.  The NYT did an entire article on how Santos dressed to make himself believable. Good psychopaths know that trick. Trump has all the trapping of a guy with money, but he does not have the money, that is why he has to cheat college kids, and bilk the Hooples. 

Looks like a cold windy day. Have a good day and if it serves you to just make something up do it. If you need help call Jeff B, or Frank. 

If you can't win, change the rules

How can you stamp out dissent, truth, and open discussion? That is the question for the Tea Party. The answer is simple, change the rules. Make sure anyone interjecting reality into the cult meeting is excluded. Make sure no embarrassing questions are asked of the story tellers, and liars. Creating a closed system is the new goal of the Tea Party in Payson. No more taking a chance of someone showing up and asking poor old Windy Rodgers about her truthfulness. Once the rules are changed Windy can feel free to lie, mislead, and distort at will. Eli can have his way at story time. What happens when a cult implodes? When you keep people out, you end up with a hard core of believers, and you have shown people what you are really about. You are not about education, you are not about bring information to people, what you are about is indoctrination. 

When you go to any meeting with thugs at the door it should trigger something in your brain. Who are they afraid of? Well of course they will not say it is ideas they are afraid of. No, they make up a silly story. Kadizzle at one time shoved $23 down the shirt collar of Kevin Cramer. Cramer refused to support health care for a woman with a child born with serious birth defects. That is not the story of the Tea Party legend. The legend claims Kadizzle is a 74 year old dangerous man who might harm Shirly, because he once gave Kramer an awkward contribution. Kadizzle has never assaulted anyone. Kramer himself said he was not assaulted on Rob Ports radio program. That story doesn't work for Frank, and Jeff B. so they made up their own story in the Trump tradition, a lie. 

Why did they make up the story? They needed something to hang their hat on. Frank, and Jeff B. don't like this blog, and they don't like this blog exposing the hypocrisy of the Tea Party. To keep the silly conspiracy theories secret they have to keep normal people out of the meetings. How do you do that? You make stories that proclaim innocents people are guilty. Trump showed lying works, and Frank, and Jeff B. jumped right in and gave it a try. 

Out of all this a new hard core, hard right Tea Party will emerge. Only those washed in the blood of the lamb called Trump will be admitted. A bad organization will only become worse. It is the Republican party in miniature. Drive out any normalcy and replace it with drama and chaos. 

Attendance at the meetings has dwindled. Why? Could it be even the people who want to believe in Santa are having a hard time figuring out how a fat guy gets down the chimney. How can you have free speech when people are no free to speak. Maybe Frank, and Jeff B. have an explanation. 

Strange deal

As Kadizzle pulled out of the lumber yard parking lot two men in a fairly new pickup truck flagged him down. Kadizzle thought they wanted directions. Nope, they wanted to sell Kadizzle $21,000 worth of Honda equipment for $9,000. The deal and explanation seemed fishy from the start. Kadizzle told them of a couple of construction sites where they might unload the equipment and told them to follow him to the construction going on near the new home, which they did. The thought occurred to Kadizzle to just drive to the police station and see their reaction. Who knows where they got the stuff. As a schemer Kadizzle had a minor brain storm. The entrepreneurs might be able to unload the stuff at a constrution site where they were building a 21 million dollar bridge. Kadizzle sent them there and told them he wanted a hundred dollar commission if they sold the stuff. Of course they said no problem. Kadizzle will never see them again. 

Asking where they got the stuff Kadizzle got a good story. They said they were selling stuff at the huge auto show going on in Phoenix. According to them their boss said they could not ship the stuff back to California because it had oil and gas in it and the boss told them to sell the stuff at cost.  A good story, but had some major holes in it. Who would drive sixty miles to sell stuff they could have sold in Phoenix much easier. Kadizzle asked them if they robbed a box car or something. With the equipment you got paper work and a warranty. Ya, sure ya betcha.   

The smart ones have turned on the dumb ones or is it the other way?

 You can see it on the national level, and even the local level. The Republicans are eating their own. With the lying Santos, and the lying Trump the Republicans that still have an ounce of self respect have said enough. The old respectable Republicans have abandoned the Hooplehead wing of the party. On the national level 20 idiots have been allowed to take over the Republican party. Where will this lead? Nowhere good is the simple answer. We are headed there on a fast train to the status of a third world country. Maybe we are already there. Dingers like Marjorie Taylor Green are hugging Kevin McCarthy. Wow, what does that mean? The dingers love chaos, and the budget will be their instrument of fun. Give a kid a cardboard box and watch. Give a Hooplehead a goofy lie, and watch. The Hooples never have a long range plan, just disrupt, and destroy. Lying is the fuel that works. The local Hoople would as soon lie as breath. 

Without an ounce of evidence they just make it up. Stop the steal was the classic. Trump showed the Hooples the power of the lie. Our Capitol was attacked simply by Trump lying. Can we overcome the liars? Kari Lake went down in flames. Don't get your hopes up. Eli Crane rocketed to the top with his nonsense. There is hope the truth is eating away at the right wing of the Republican party. Kadizzle thought one year of Trump and he would implode, nope, there are loyal cultist. Cults are unique. No matter what they believe. The local cult is tightening up the rules to destroy any holes that might allow the truth to leak into the meeting where the conspiracies and lies are hatched. No more walkins. Tow the party line or be thrown out. Do not cast doubt on leader. All cults cull the heretics and the local Tea Party is clamping down on dissent. Does this remind you of how Hitler, Castro, and Trump operate. Write anything negative about the cult, and out you go. Do not question party doctrine. Martin Luther tried it an look what happened. Churches split, and split. Right winger dingers have a hard time staying cohesive. Losing the intellectuals in the Republican party was a big blow. When the smart ones left and took their books with them what was left, cartoons, and comic books. 

Can democracy be saved from the attack of the greedy. Using the Hooples the greed dogs will fight to the end for tax breaks. Sadly the Hooples are willing paws. Give the Hooples some guns and religion and watch them dance. You get to play the tune. 

Can you teach a Hooplehead to think?

The old saying is you can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink. Can Frank, and Jeff B be made to drink from the fountain of knowledge? Below is an interesting lesson in thinking. Our mind can take us in many directions.  Like a wild horse we have to control our mind when it goes in the wrong direction. How can you do it? First you have to know if it is going in the wrong direction. The video below has some good tips.  Will Frank, and Jeff B. watch the video? Most likely not. They already decided they are right. Why change? If you ever wondered how Hoopleheads get that way the video is informative. Marketers, and liars like Trump know the information in the videos. Frank, and Jeff B. are unaware of how their own brain can manipulate them. If this video were shown at the Hooplehead meeting the steam from the ears would be deafening. Give the video a try. If you already have the ability to think you might do well with a refresher. If you are new to thinking, you might find it fun. 

21 Mind Traps : The Ultimate Guide to your most common Thinking errors

Proud of my little girl

My granddaughter was not raised to be a follower. She was not raised to be gullible. One of her teachers assigned the class to write about "structured water".  It is the nonsensical type of science the Hoopleheads fall for. Granddaughter did some research and found it was just another silly scam. She confronted the teacher. 

Grandpa is proud that she does not just get in line and believe any nonsense. Teaching children to question things is crucial to having intelligent children. The worst thing a parent can do is take a kid to Sunday school and tell them to believe that nonsense. Even worse is homeschooling where you keep the child away from reality. 

A great thing about public schools is children are not protected from reality. When you create an exclusive bunch of fools what do you get? You get the Payson Tea Party. The Tea Party in Payson is currently restructuring to make sure everyone conforms with the party line. No questioning the lies of Kari Lake or Wendy Rodgers. If you are unwilling to go along with the Trump won game, then the thugs at the door will revoke your passport. That is how cults work. If you don't believe the fantasy then stay out. 

Trump loyalty demonstrated at the Payson Tea Party

What happens when a principled person stands up for what is right and Donald Trump is the president? Ask Mike Pence. A brave woman with principles who understands freedom of speech, how democracies work, and knows the value of free debate is being ostracized, and harassed because she does the right thing. The brave woman is the local Liz Cheney. 

Kadizzle has met two strong women with the courage to speak to Kadizzle in person. No matter how much one might disagree with the politics of these two women you have to admire their principle, and courage. On the other hand you have the rank cowards, both men and women. The cowards know they cannot defend their crazy beliefs and are afraid to have them questioned. Those cowards don't want anyone to show up at a Tea Party Meeting and crack the delicate shell of falsehoods they live in. Remember when heretics said the Earth is round. The thugs stand at the door of the Tea Party to keep the heretics out. The Earth turned out to be round, and things worked out fine. The truth will endure the light of day. That is why Trump does not allow his cronies to testify. He knows the danger of the Truth, The cowardly people who pick on the principled people fear the truth. 

It saddens Kadizzle immensely to see a good woman mistreated. History will remember the good people and forget the cowards. Keep that in mind Frank, Jeff B. 

If you are a gutless coward don't pick on some woman who is not. Come to me, call me, meet me on the street. We can have a civil conversation and get to know each other. 

The Hoopleheads continue to claim Kadizzle is a dangerous person who will snap and attack them. It is made up nonsense. Step in the cage with the lion and let the lion prove he will not eat you. He may bash you with the truth, or bludgeon your silly conspiracy theories, but he will draw no blood. Where do you come up with this nonsense. The little woman you bash was not afraid to sit down with the lion. Lori was not afraid to talk. Why or how can you be such pathetic people that you have to hide and have someone else do your dirty work? 

Getting ready for Heaven

Observing people one might notice them divided into two groups, those improving life on Earth, and those wasting time getting ready for the afterlife. Everyday the Jehovah's Witnesses are down at the park preparing for the afterlife. Meanwhile they will not go vote to improve this life. If they voted we would not have the Trump gang. 

Then you have the incredible waste that goes into churches. Bricks, electricity, and untold resources that could be used for home, schools, and necessities here on Earth are wasted to get a ticket to heaven. Even God himself must scratch his testicles and wonder how did the Earthlings get it so wrong. As millions suffer in poverty the church people pour billions into church infrastructure. Should we buy a new cross or feed some starving kids? Wow, lets get some chimes for the church and re carpet the entryway. 

Heaven would be right here on Earth if church people would become logical. Ain't goin happen. It is too much fun making an insurance policy for yourself with the church routine.  One big problem with churches become logical is they would have to share. Not in the cards. No Baptist really want to help Catholics, or any other people not on the same bus to heaven. The absurdity of it all seems so evident, but they just cannot see it. 

Then you have the praise problem. God wants to be glorified. What? God has a weak ego and every Sunday you have to beg him and tell him how great he is?  What in the hell goes through the brain of these people. 

This gets to prayer again. Why do you have to ask God to do what he should do anyway?  Why ask God to save the little kid starving? God should be able to do it without being asked. Religion requires one to have a lobotomy. Remove that part of the brain that creates logical thinking. Every church wants to eliminate suffering. The way to do it is build a bigger parking lot and cathedral.  

Thel slum warriors

Hoarders that do their collecting in their home at least do not make a mess for the public. Yesterday Kadizzle walked with a friend to an overlook where we could see most of Payson.  Our eyes were filled with the nest of a slum warrior down below.  The land owner had junk strewn everywhere.  Others in the area also had their collections of junk. Back in Hazen, where we used to live a slum warrior moved in up the street and filled the yard with cars. What is the matter with these people, and why do towns tolerate them. Most of the time the slummers are violating ordinances, and other regulations. 

Freedom, freedom, it is my freedom to carry a gun and pile trash in my yard. How does freedom work? Are you free to ruin all the air on the planet? Are you free to destroy the peace and tranquility of the neighborhood? Some people seem to take great pleasure in pushing the limit. As bad as the slum warriors are the noise warriors. Hoopleheads with trucks deliberately made loud, or the goofy motorcycle guys who think they are part of a make believe gang of idiots. 

Good parents teach their children to respect other people. The slummers and noise dogs have lost or never had respect. In the old days there were manners. Simple manners are you don't throw trash out the window, and you pick up after your dog.  It seems the slum warriors and the litter bugs take pleasure in messing up the world. 

Disarray pleases some people, and disturbs others. Kadizzle has observed many people with mental problems that love to live in a mess. Why do they want to mimic the state of mind they are in?

Some cities don't tolerate the slum warriors. You can drive to Fountain Hills or Scottsdale and see they just don't allow slumming. Why does Payson let the slummers go wild?

Yesterday Kadizzle had a phone conversation with a relative. Somehow we talked about a European perception of our country. A young girl had visited this country and remarked about some of the nasty messes we have made in our cities. Why does a country with such riches have such run down areas. One answer is fairly simple. We have created poverty. When you give all the money to a few people with Republican tax breaks for the rich, what do you think the result will be?  Poverty is created, not a natural state.  Most tribal people do not live in squalor. 

We all drive over the same bridge

Yesterday Kadizzle spoke with his oldest sister. Kadizzle was in a family of nine. There were six girls. Sister said her husband has suffered in and out of the hospital from poor care. The interesting part is money is not the problem. If you cannot get a hospital bed, a person for home care, or a decent nursing home you are screwed. 

Republicans love the idea of starving the government, but when you will not pay taxes the bridge you drive over may fall down. The bridge does not care if you are rich, poor, Republican or Democrat. The health care system is much the same. Poor ambulance service is poor ambulance service. The one and only ambulance serves both rich and poor. Creating poverty is fine until it affects you.  

Gay in Payson, AZ

One thing you would never expect in a redneck cowboy town is a retreat for gay people, but the number of gay people we have met for a small town seems strange. The second thing is how tolerant the right wing Hooples are in general. Of course all the Hooples will make some snide remarks, but they are actually nice to the gay people, and like them. Not sure what all this means. 

Now there is a flip side to this, that you get to hear at the Tea Party meetings. Anti Gay still sells big for the Hooples. If you go to a Tea Party meeting to give a talk to rile up the Hooples you need to say something about the " groomers".  Who are the groomers? Everyone should know gay people like nothing better than teaching young people the art of being gay. The Hoopleheads insist public school teachers are grooming young people to join the legions of gay people. Now think about it. No matter how much you wanted to you could not teach a white person to be a black person. However, the Hoopleheads think teachers can have after school classes on the art of being gay. 

Scaring people is always a favorite to the Tea Party. Throwing the idea out that schools are dangerous because of groomers is just what a good Hooplehead wants to hear. One great thing about this strategy is you can use it to fund private schools, and religious schools. To protect your kids send them to a religious school. Wait, wait, wait, what if it is a Catholic Religious school and the priest is not a groomer, but a pedophile? Private schools are not allowed to have groomers, so don't worry. 

Somehow teaching real history apparently leads to homosexuality. So among the dangers you have to mention at the Tea Party meeting is the danger of Critical Race Theory.  Who knows what in the hell that is, but it must be bad, because the guy at the Tea Party meeting running for a position in they lying party said so. 

For better or worse gay people have money.  Now are you going to refuse to sell a car to a gay person if you can make a few grand doing it? Of course not. When you become friends with the gay guy you sold the car to you say " He is not so bad after all".  It is sort of like going to school with black kids, or muslim kids. Again that is why we need private schools to keep our children away from people who are different.  We all know different is dangerous. If everyone would be just like grandpa and use the N word freely things would be better. Well look at good old Trump, we know and love.  Remember how he called African countries shit holes. That is the kind of guy we need teaching our kids, a redneck groomer. How many teachers do you know that have a "Go Brandon" flag or a Confederate flag on their truck? We need to get the groomers out of school and replace them with teachers carrying guns. Of course the NRA has gone one better and now the six year olds carry guns and shoot the teacher. 

Kadizzle would have done so much better in school if he had a gun. Imagine when the teacher came back to Kadizzle and handed him a paper with a red F.  If Kadizzle had pointed his handgun at the teacher and said " Are you sure you got that grade right?'.  Surely that F would have turned into an A.  Improving grades is simple, arm the students. 

 

Game Time

 As usual Kadizzle is up and reading the NYT.  The game is on with the budget. Republicans play such a silly budget game. They want to reduce the budget, but sure as hell don't want to tax the rich.  So how can you order a big meal and refuse to pay for it? One great trick the Republicans are going to try is raising the age for people to retire with social security. Republicans know the Hoopleheads are dumber than bricks so their trick should be easy to pull off. 

The Hoopleheads just cannot comprehend that social security is simply a tax, but also a tax on the poor. The rich do not pay tax on any dollar they earn over $135,000.  Now most of us could probably explain to a first grader how unfair and ridiculous this is. If you made everyone pay in on every dollar problem solved. Who would put up with a tax system that only made the rich pay taxes on the first million? Republicans who sold people on Trump realize you can sell the Hooples anything. 

Young people have the most to lose.  Republicans want to force the young to work until seventy to retire. Young people have no clue what working until seventy means.  It might be feasible for a banker, but what about a truck driver or a coal miner? In the Republican world there is no future. Republicans want to steal every cent they can from the working class and buy bigger yachts for the rich. 

North Dakota has the classic Republican scam going on. The Republicans in North Dakota are proposing giving back some of the oil riches.  One for you, two for me is the system.  Everybody gets a cookie, the rich just happen to get ten cookies for every one cookie you get. Nothing wrong with that is there?  Who could be against cookies. Now if some smart alec little kid says " How come you get so many cookies?",  Republicans have plenty of stories to tell. First, is the old " I provided the flour, and oven to cook the cookies".  How did you get the flour and oven Mr. ?  My daddy gave them to me.  How come my daddy didn't give me some flour and an oven?  Go outside and play. 

Narcan for Hoopleheads

When the life of a drug addict is just about over you can shoot them with Narcan and get their engine going again. What if you could shoot something into a Trump supporter, or a Tea Party Hooplehead and revive their brain?  You can. You need a needle to penetrate the addicts skin with Narcan. What does it take to penetrate the concrete skull of a Hooplehead. Who knows? If you could get a Hoople to read one intelligent thing a day it might work. If Kadizzle had to prescribe something for the Hooples it would be a daily dose of Heather Cox Richardson. She tears apart the right wing lies with truth and logic.  

If you are a drunk or a drug addict you have to stop taking the poison. For Hoopleheads that means no more Fox News, no more right wing radio, no more Tea Party propaganda. Is there a twelve step program for Hooples? Not sure what the twelve steps would be. Step one would be read something well written by a knowledgeable person telling the truth. Step two would be leave the cult. Step three would be question everything. Step four would be quit that religious state of mind where you believe in nonsense made up two thousand years ago. Step four would be learn some science, become interested in reality and abandon fantasy. Step five recognize lies. Step six stay away from simple minded people or at least confront them. Step seven test what you know, observe what works. Step eight respect education. Step nine don't look for simple solutions to complex problems. Step ten know when you are being used, played, fooled. Step eleven know how con men operate. Step 12 test what you know against the real world. 

Alcoholics anonymous works for a lot of people. People with a similar problem support each other to break the addiction. Try it with some friends who left the Trump cult. Meet with them and see if they can help you leave the cult. Once you find our you can live without the lies, the false promises, and the fake hope, maybe life will be better.  

Paid Fairly

Yesterday Kadizzle had a conversation with an owner of a small business. The man was struggling economically. Our discussion revolved around wages. The wages of working people have just not kept up. In 1976 Kadizzle started a job after two years of graduate school. The hourly rate was about $13.  However, the job was with Conoco. Conoco owned Consolidation Coal Company. Conoco was a wonderful company to work for. Conoco cared about it's people. In addition to a wage, the company provided a very good investment plan, health insurance, life insurance, dental insurance, and kept employees up with inflation. Once when inflation was raging Conoco sent out a letter no one knew was coming saying all employees would get a 25% raise. 

Those days are gone. Workers today struggle, companies don't care. Companies are bought and sold and the employees are treated like cattle. Republicans do everything in their power to beat the working man into poverty. Destroying unions was a key to keeping working people poor. Add to that a tax structure that overwhelmingly favors the rich. As if all this was not enough Republicans want to destroy social security and the healthcare system. The greed of the Republicans is unbridled.  

Once upon a time a man working could support his family, no more. With husband and wife working they still cannot make it. 

Kadizzle was very fortunate. We both worked, saved and retired at 50. Now, Kadizzle sees his children making very good wages, but they cannot save like we did. Mrs Kadizzle worked on and off doing a variety of seasonal jobs. Our eldest daughter and her husband both have well paying professional jobs. What was a burden for them and is for most modern families is child care.  At time they paid between 20 and 30 thousand dollars a year for child care. That was just for one child.  What this means is even if a wife has a good job at least a third of her income will go to pay for child care. Other countries have addressed this, but not the United States. 

The bottom line is who do we care about? Republicans are the proponents for the rich. They will lie, steal, cheat and do what they can to protect the rich. A great failure of the Democrats is the poor job they have done fighting for the poor. Democrats are like Ukraine, short on resources. The Republicans have huge donors from people like the Koch brothers. Now, Republicans have their own propaganda network called Fox News. Working people are losing. 

The saddest part of this story are the simple minded Hooples who vote for Trump, and his gang of lying understudies. Working people voting against their own interest. 

Win at any cost or any port in a storm

Have you been following the Santos story about the Republican pathological psychopath elected to congress? Every day new lies, scams, and evidence is presented that Santos has no bottom to his barrel of lies. Yet Kevin McCarthy says " We'll take him".  Covering up for Trump gave the Republicans a lot of experience dealing with pathological liars, but come on Hoopleheads are you really that desperate for wins that you will vote for the best liar, or maybe the worst liar. 

Now the story comes out today how Santos raised money for a dog with cancer, then kept the money for himself. Can you get any lower? Maybe you can. Trump sells trading cards, that is pretty low. What does it take to wake up a Tea Party Hoople?

Lying has become a litmus test to get elected as a Republican. You have to be a liar, not a good liar, but just a Republian liar. That is all it takes. 

The Pogues - I'm a Man You Don't Meet Every Day

Be easy and free when your drinking with me. I am a man you don't meet every day. 

Can you teach a Hooplehead to read?

Did you ever notice intelligent people read intelligent things? What do the Hooples read? Most likely nothing, they watch Fox and Listen to some Rush Limbaugh like idiot. 

One thing Kadizzle has discovered is you cannot pay a hooplehead to read something of substance. Today Heather Cox Richardson has written one of her excellent topics about the inmates taking over the asylum. Bent on destruction the far right gang has been given by McCarthy the steering wheel. 

The Hooples love drama of the three stooges kind. Stooges like Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) have been given key assignments. She is on the Homeland Security Committee. Republicans would have no problem letting the stewardess fly the plane if she offered the pilot sex. That is how you get a vote in the Republican Party today. 

The Hooples could read about the inner workings of the imploding Republican Party, but no they prefer cartoons. 

The amazing thing is Republicans have now been blackmailed into giving the most crazy people good assignments. A year ago the nut cases were thrown off committees, now they have been upgraded. 

Let the janitor do the surgery. So once you put a monkey behind the controls of a train what do you think will happen? Monkeys love mayhem, and we are about to get it in bushels. 

Bored senseless last night Kadizzle reviewed the final days of Hitler's demise. History is another weakness of the Hooples. Hitler's helpers had a problem burning his body. His chaufer could not find gasoline to burn him. Syphoning gas out of bombed cars ended up being the solution. It was no simple job they had to use well over fifteen gallons of gas. Surely they complained about the price of gas Biden caused. The wife of one of the top ranking people with Hitler insisted they kill her children  so the children would not be embarrassed when the world became normal. The number of people who committed suicide was astounding when Hitler lost the war. 

So the Germans followed their version of Donald Trump. How's that working for ya, Germany?  Of course Russia had Stalin, another Trumper, but the Hooples know nothing of History. 

Ignorance is the fertilizer of the Tea Party gang. Fiction is far more fun than reality. You tell little kids lies, and made up stories. Same works for the Hoopleheads. As a young child Kadizzle remembers older brothers and sisters using scare tactics to get us little kids to behave. There were ghosts in the attic, and killers roamed the ally. Eventually we figured out we were being lied to. Hooples never figure it out. 

We got some sigoggled people around here.

Words can be fun. Hillbillies have some word you hear nowhere else. Sigoggled is one of those words. Basically it means crooked. You might say that wall is sigoggled. Of course if you want to see sigoggled people you could go to a Trump rally.  

Words are interesting because often they are only used in certain areas. In the old mining days Kadizzle worked with a young guy that used the word yins. Kadizzle instantly knew he was from a small area near Pittsburg. Are Yins coming to dinner?What are yins doing tonight? Yup that fellow is from that area near Pittsburg. 

Calling a paper bag a poke will narrow you down to the south in general and in West Virginia only in certain areas did they use that term. 

In his underground coal mining days Kadizzle noticed the terms used varied from Southern West Virginia to Northern West Virginia. The two coal fields were separated by a couple hundred miles. 

In southern West Virginia they were called buggy runners. In Northern West Virginia it was a shuttle car operator. In southern West Virginia it was a pinner man. In Northern West Virginia it was a roof bolter. 

Industrial terms are often amusing and sometimes fun. Underground you have to use fire proof hydraulic fluid. The fluid is white instead of the usual oil color. The miners called it mouse milk.  When someone first tells you to go get five gallons of mouse milk your brain gets rattled. What the hell is mouse milk? 

This reminds Kadizzle of an industrial story in a steel mill. Somehow the workers began calling a small cable winch " the old man".  Once these things develop the people who use the terms forget most people don't know them. A young guy got a summer job in the steel mill. Someone told him to go get the old man. The young guy came back with the oldest person he could find. 

The classic story may have been told on this blog before, but maybe you forgot. In underground mines they call the piece of track that keeps the coal cars aligned over a switch " a frog".  In the mine Kadizzle worked at a crew was removing some old track. A miner was using a cutting torch to remove the bolts from the frog.  Somehow he badly burnt his hand and had to be taken to the emergency room. The nurse asked how he burnt his hand. Innocently he said " I was trying to cut the nuts off a frog". Supposedly that got him slapped, but these things can happen.

Paranoid

People love paranoid nonsense. Of course the Hooples are the biggest fans of this idiocy. What a way to puff yourself up. The government is listening to my phone calls and the Alexa in my bedroom is listing to us. The simple question is why would anyone want to listen to Kadizzle? It makes people feel important if they think the government really has an interest in them. Sorry, most of us are about as boring as can be. Does the government care if Kadizzle yells at his wife to change channels?

A good Hoople knows the government is trying to get his gun. So of course the government needs to know where he hides his guns. How many people do you talk to who are obsessed with the idea someone is invading their privacy? What if you did know someone had hemorrhoids, or bad breath, so what?If you knew everything about Kadizzle, you still would not know much. Could you blackmail Kadizzle?Threaten to tell the Hooples secret information? If you wanted you could find out a lot about Kadizzle just by using the internet. That is what the Payson Hooples did. However, the Payson Hooples went one step farther. The Hooplelheads found some information and then embellished it with lies. Think about it. Really does it make any difference what people know about you if the same people are just going to fabricate stuff. 

The reality is you have no protection against dishonest people. Trump is the most classic case. The people in the Capitol were assaulted by Trump's lying. The poor witches were burned do to liars. So are you really in danger from people knowing something? It makes no difference in a society driven by lying. Fox News is based on sophisticated lies. Fox helped ruin honest companies by lying. 

The moral of the story is you are wasting your time trying to protect your information when the Hooples have the luxury of just making things up and believing nonsense. 

Could this really have been filmed?

Two possibilities, either the video below was shot using real scenes, or someone did a great job faking it. At first Kadizzle thought he would skip it, but it is actually very entertaining, try it.  

Fabio Wibmer - Fabiolous Escape 2

About the Angels Landing Post below

Many years ago Kadizzle did the hike out to Angels Landing in Zion National Park. In fact Kadizzle has done the hike about three times. Of all the hikes Kadizzle has done in a lifetime the Angels Landing hike was probably the one that created the most fear. A fall there would be maybe 1,500 feet straight down over a cliff. Usually two people a year fall to their death there. Kadizzle was up there once in the snow. No way in hell on that day would he go out there. Kadizzle could never figure out why the Park Service would allow people to take the hike in the snow. It is pretty close to suicide. 

Do to the clouds  and the fog you cannot see how dangerous this is. If you really want to know the danger find another video with no snow. Wait, got a plan. Kadizzle will post his old Angels landing video first. To get the essence of this if you give a damn you will have to watch them both. 

Angel's Landing with Lord Kadizzle

Climbing Angel's Landing in a Snowstorm

The Same People

 Reading the NYT is a daily ritual. An article caught Kadizzle's eye this morning about the water shortage in Rio Verde. Mrs. Kadizzle was in a rental property there recently. Developers built a lot of expensive homes there with no water source. 

This brings us quickly to the Hoopleheads. You cannot have a government with no source of income. The Hooples have no concept of cause and effect. You cannot give every home a swimming pool, then think you will always have enough water.  It's my right to have a gun and wastewater. That is the Hoople mentality. Hooples believe God has given them the right to waste gas, water, or whatever makes them happy. If we did not waste so much water perhaps everyone would have enough, but Hooples don't think like that. If we did not waste food no one would be hungry, if we quit selling kids tobacco health care cost would go down.

Maybe Kadizzle needs a lesson in cause and effect. There seems to be a relationship between opening the door on the refrigerator, and the numbers on the scale in the bathroom. 

Back to the Hooples and the government. The Hoopleheads think highways grow just like the grass does. No need to tax rich people and pay for highways. Taxing rich people is an invasion of their privacy. The Hooples who hate government don't seem to have any idea of what government does. Hooples think he only role of government is to bother people. One major thing the Hooples cannot comprehend is how much technology government has brought us. Sure a lot of it was spun off from the military, but some of the most important advancements came from NASA.  

Private enterprise would like the Hooples to thing all the good things came from some rich guy. Not so. Many of the rich guys realized they could steal ideas from colleges, NASA, the military and so on. 

It always comes back to the same thing. The Hooples are so ill informed. They only look at what supports their views. The best example is the Bible.  Instead of keeping up with reality the Hooples stick to a book a couple thousand years old. Argue with a Hoople and when you get the Hoople cornered he will revert to the Bible. 

One of the most powerful things a person can do is say " I don't know".  One of the dumbest things a person can do is just make up any silly answer to something they don't know.  Hooples specialize in making things up. Trump is their favorite story teller. Then of course you have the rest of the gang with the latest entry Santos. 

When you are desperate for a flyswatter you will grab anything. Republicans are desperate for votes, and boy did they grab anything. 

Carried away

Sometimes Kadizzle gets carried away posting things. Below is a good video on Olglebay Park. Kadizzle spent half his childhood at this park. As the crow flies it was right over the hill from our house. The park was the most amazing city park Kadizzle has ever seen. It had everything, and then some. The park cost the city nothing. It was self sustaining. Golfers and visitors from Pittsburg, and Columbus paid for the park. It is a model for how to run a city park. Read or look at all the post today, it will be on the test.  

Oglebay Golf and Resort-Wheeling West Virginia

Kadizzle cannot get over it

Charles Rettig, the Internal Revenue Service commissioner, recently said " The United States is losing $1trillion in unpaid taxes every year. Most of the unpaid taxes are the result of evasion by the wealthy and large corporations, but the agency lacks the resources to catch tax cheats." So the Republicans are using their power to protect their wealthy tax-cheating friends when they could be collecting the tax money to erase the deficits they constantly complain about. 

Tea Party people cannot see the paragraph above. It is invisible to the Hoopleheads. Republicans claim making people pay what they owe is an invasion of privacy. The Hoopleheads eat up this insane argument. Right wing radio buzzes to enter the concrete that protects the Hoople brain from reality. 

Imagine what we could buy with a trillion dollars the rich Republicans are stealing. They simply buy Kari Lake, Eli Crane, and all the dolts the Hooples voted for. Can Hooples really be so stupid as not to see through the Republican scam. Money that should be used for schools, health care, and infrastructure is being used by the Trump gang to buy yachts, golf courses, and nice villas. Wow, Hooples you just cannot see the forest for the trees. What do you get when you trick a Hoople? A trillion dollars. Free fantasy at the Tea Party. They are after our guns, and immigrants are at the door. What about the trillion dollars the rich stole? Nope, did not see it missing. Freedom, freedom, freedom to rob the ignorant blind. That is the new Republican freedom. Keep your gun and give me the money. Sounds good to me. 

 

Someone gave me a used one billion dollars.

In the executive suite this morning as Kadizzle sat on the throne he contemplated the ipad a neighbor gave him about five years ago. The ipad is at least 15 years old. It still works and provides some entertainment for a king on a throne. 

The big thought that blasted through Kadizzle's head was, what would this thing be worth two or three hundred years ago.  Kings would have paid everything for that ipad that can do so many things impossible way back when. What would a GPS be worth to Columbus? What would a device that could take a color picture be worth to artist in Italy four hundred years ago. What would a database or a spreadsheet be worth to the Roman Army.  Internet access alone with access to all the information in the world. 

Now the strange part. We have amazing technology, but people are still hungry, stupid, cold, and at war. How can that be. One good answer might be religion. Religion has enabled humans to ignore reality, fight over nothing, and pin their hopes on magic. How's that working for you? 

He lives in a small world

Almost thirty years ago Kadizzle used to spend hours driving around a surface coal mine in North Dakota with Duane. Duane was in charge of production. Kadizzle always loved and expression Duane used. Duane described someone by saying " He lives in a small world".

Nothing sums up the Hoopleheads any better. They just are not aware of too much. Kadizzle used to think travel would open up the mind of even a Hoople, but not so.  Most people do get a different view of the world when they travel. 

A right wing friend went to Cuba. They like Cuba, but did not come back with any change of mind at all. It turns out a Hoople can look right at something and not see it. In today's world many countries are better off than the United States, they don't have the poverty, the slums, the poor education, the poor health care.  A Hoople can visit a country that is clean, well educated, and had excellent health care, child care and so on, but the Hoople never seems to be able to ask why? 

 If you ever drove through the countryside you probably noticed two farms side by side on the same soil. One seems much more prosperous than the other. Why? The Hooples seem to have a hard time noticing things. Lying is the classic case. The Hooples did not notice that Trump promised to show his taxes, and then refused. A normal person would notice that. The Hooples did not notice Trump claims to be a Christian, yet cannot repeat a single Bible verse. They did not notice Trump broke everyone of the ten commandments multiple times. 

Not noticing is a well honed skill of the Republican Party and the Hooples that elect them. Currently the Republicans refuse to rid the party of the lying Santos from New York. They just don't seem to notice the man has admitted lying.  Seems they welcome a good liar, Trump proved that beyond question. 

See Where we live

The video below is from a drone flown in the area we have moved to. If you want to know what our new location is like click on the part where is says watch on youtube. The nice little lakes in the video are down below our house. A very different world from our old home in Hazen, North Dakota. We went from one extreme to the other. Hazen was treeless level prairie, Payson, is in the mountains.