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.