Kadizzled

ChiChi comes to the Earth Module

2012-02-03T07:58:00.003-07:00

Last night the Kadizzelites picked up the famous New York designer ChiChi at the airport. Cheech has never been in the desert so she got to wake up for a spectacular view of cactus and see the little humming bird with her nest by the window.
In the Earth Module the first thing one must do is get up to date. That means you have to run the bases on the computer and see what the Hoopleheads are up to. Cheech was very amused that Lord Kadizzle named The Commander's little laptop the pineapple. Lord Kadizzle has a big Apple Laptop that he uses and The Commander got a little Asus laptop for Christmas, so her's is the pineapple. Going to be a perfect day on the desert and Cheech will have a great time in a different habitat.

Lunch in the Desert

2012-02-02T18:28:00.003-07:00

The Kadizzlites and Ruth took a rugged hike in the desert today. Rodger was not feeling too good and stayed back to guard the camp. It was a long hard hike through some rugged country, but well worth it. Flowers were blooming and the temperature was perfect.
For a short rest we stopped by a little pool of water for a snack. Later we had lunch by the trail. The GPS said we went 9.5 miles. Kadizzles shoes are about shot from walking for hundreds of miles on rocks, time for some new ones.

A weird noise at the door

2012-02-01T20:14:00.002-07:00

Sitting in the comfort of the Earth Module watching television the Kadizzilites heard a strange high pitched noise at the door. It turned out to be coyotes. They seem to be all over the place here. They don't seem to be to shy. The incident reminds us of the time we were in the Mohave Desert. No sooner had Cissie set some hamburger out to thaw than a coyote came to steal it.

R&R after a move not far

2012-02-01T12:31:00.002-07:00

This morning we moved to a different site. The Usery Mountains make a nice backdrop out the window. We are set up in great anticipation of Chichi's arrival (our daughter Megan). Putting three people in this little box will be close quarters. However, we are close to the rest rooms which are some of the finest you will ever find in a public park. The showers are nicely tiled with all the hot water you want, and the rest rooms are cleaned daily.

The number of Canadians here is amazing. About half the population of this park is Canadian. According to folklore they are all supposed to broke or dying because of their expensive health care, which actually works way better than ours. Canadians are buying up a lot of housing in AZ.

Temperatures and weather have been great here. Tomorrow we will hike with Ruth. Rodger is not feeling well and may have to take the day off.

Social life among the mobile.

2012-01-31T08:31:00.003-07:00

One nice thing about traveling is 99% of the people you meet are friendly and helpful. Almost without fail when the Kadizzilites pull into a new area and set camp we soon meet some nice people and fellow travelers. The majority of people living a mobile life are retired and their goal is to enjoy life. If anyone appears to be having a problem soon they are surrounded by people with lots of advice, tools, and willingness to help.
If you want information, there is just about always someone who knows the area and will give you some good tips about how to get there and where to stay. One nice thing that happens once in a while is people break out instruments and have an informal musical get together.
In no time a lot of these people become good friends and you may end up going down the road with them. We have often invited people to visit us in North Dakota, and a couple have taken us up on in. Last fall we visited some people we met last year at their bed and breakfast in Canada.
A special group of people we meet are those from other countries exploring our country. It is fun to find out what their impression of the United States is. Often it is eye opening. A couple days ago we me a guy from Sweden. He loved our public lands. Most Europeans are amazed how in the United States there are millions of acres where anyone can just park and camp for free. Traveling is always educational and meeting people is one of the best ways to educate yourself

We are ready when they attack

2012-01-30T13:43:00.002-07:00

Currently we are camped at Usery Park, North of Mesa. It is a very nice park, with a nice view, and nice facilities. One major problem the gun nuts are about a half mile away on the other side of the road. Yesterday gun fire was going wild. They must have a shoot an athirst thing or something special on Sunday. Having the peace and quiet interuppted by machine gun fire on Sunday just doesn't seem right in Amarika. Kadizzle was listening to the wonderful music of gun shots and trying to calculate how much it cost to fire a round every second for eight hours a day. At fifty cents a round that comes out to about $1,800 per hour. That is a small price to pay for being safe. Just about everyone and their grandmother now has a concealed weapons permit. When we were in Quartzite at the idiots convention last week you could get a concealed weapons permit in about two hours for 35 states. The gun fire has slowed a little as I sit here, but any moment the machine gun may roar. I saw an old gieser in the health food store with a 45 strapped to his side. Don't sell him any bad lettuce.

Third assault of Signal Peak fails, but nice hike anyway.

2012-01-29T07:44:00.002-07:00

The Kadizzlites got off to a good start. To make it to the top the first part of the hike was around the base of the mountain and into a canyon. On the satellite photos it appeared there was a way to the top.

After walking for miles across the desert we reached the mouth of the canyon. Once inside the canyon the size of the mountains seemed to grow immensely. After about a half mile carefully picking our way over boulders it was time to go up. To Kadizzle's amazement The Commander agreed there was no way we could make it to the top and back in one day. Indeed there were several routes to the top. You could see where the big horn sheep had done it, but it was a long way.

Inside the canyon was a huge bowl. The real mystery on the whole hike were the large rocks moved by the streams. The only way the rocks could be moved was by water, but their size made it hard to believe. Rain rarely hits these mountains, but when it does it must create incredible torrents of water. The bowl in the canyon is like a giant funnel. You would not want to be in that canyon during a downpour.

Good sleep in the desert.

2012-01-28T08:45:00.003-07:00

The Earth Module team slept well in the desert, no noise, no lights, and no one within miles. Today The Commander will conduct our third assault on Signal Peak. Because The Commander suffers from hyper activity, she had to do some scouting by herself. The Commander thinks she may found a good route. Other than the wind it should be a perfect day. The top of the mountain pictured below is the goal. We will take off to the right of the base and try to find a stream bed that is not too steep.

Our New Home

2012-01-27T18:51:00.003-07:00

The Commander is much happier in our new location. The Commander found a big horn sheep skull and is delighted. The Earth module has moved about 15 miles south of Quarzite. The quiet and beauty here are 180 degrees from the insane circus in Quartzite. The air is better, it is a whole different world. The Commander is excited about another assault on the mountain tomorrow. The sunset was spectacular.

Our Career as LED salesmen has ended.

2012-01-27T14:00:00.002-07:00

Today the Kadizzles ended the 7 day stint selling LED lights. The Commander could not take the crowds, the dust, and the noise any longer. Now that is off our bucket list. We hooked up the Earth Module and moved about 15 miles south to the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge. Kofa is like another world. Now the module faces an incredible view with no one in site. The Commander is jumping at the chance to hike. The wind is a little strong, so perhaps tomorrow we will hike

One lesson learned from selling LEDs is the number of people poor, or broke by choice. If people made a few intelligent choices in their life about what they needed and what they did not they would not suffer from lack of income. However, when you see how easily vendors part people from their money with some useless item, it is clear why so many people are broke. People cannot separate what they need from some shiny item they think they want. Every busted flat person has a tattoo, a vanity license plate, several T Shirts with silly slogans, an earring or two, a couple of piercings, and a rat dog. Kadizzle met two guys making a fortune at this slummers paradise show who were dog hygienist. These guys were living the good life cleaning dogs teeth. The silly owners could not afford to clean their own teeth, but paid a small fortune to have the teeth of their dog cleaned.

Some vendors at the show go to Costco, buy an inventory, take it to the show, double the price, and what does not sell they take back to Costco. Does it get any better than that?

So many Americans think that if you have money left over at the end of a show, or at the end of the month you did something wrong. You need more fribbles, or a bigger truck.

The Humphfels come and the Humphfels go.

2012-01-25T21:04:00.004-07:00

What in the hell is a Humphfel? The Commander, and Kadizzle have taken to calling the large 40ft RV's Humphfels. Some how it fits. These big lumbering giants that are the American dream look like elephants with wheels going to the watering hole. It all started way back in the late sixties with Winnabago. Every old fart wanted to retire get a Humphfel and live the dream. The origional Humphfel drivers always wore jumpsuits. You knew you hit the good life when you could come out of your Humphfel in a silver jump suit. The beauty of the jump suit was it had an elastic band around the waist. The old fart who worked all his life with his belly constrained by a belt was in heaven.

In the spot where the Earth Module is parked we have had several wagon trains of Humphels come in and form a circle. In their secure mode the people put a campfire in the middle and have a great time. Yesterday it was like all the Bison migrated. We came back from work and the place was empty. Now the Humphfes are slowly migrating back.

Humphfels are noisy beast, they consume a lot of diesel fuel and electricity, so even when they are not moving the Humphfels sit there and sweat stinky fumes. A Humphfel owner takes pride in suffering no inconvenience. TV's are a must, they may even have one one the outside. You must never be too far from a TV in the United States if you are prosperous.

Humphfels like to mark their tribes. In the old days they would put up some sort of flag, but this year the new thing is for a tribe of Humphfels to have a strip of LED that change color on a long pole. This marks their territory and gives them great pride. The Commander and Kadizzle can sell you a programmable strip with the pole for 200 dollars.

Nowadays all the Humphfels have slide outs. That means when they stop they get bigger. You know how a cow kind of looks bigger when it is on the ground. Humphfels try to show their size as part of their mating ritual.

When the typical Humphfel nest there are two rituals. First there will be a huge fight between the male and female occupant about parking the thing. As Willy backs up he will shout at Martha and you will swear a divorce is only minutes away. After they get set up, put the awning out and the carpet, and have a drink they will settle down for awhile. The second ritual will be Willy polishing the Humphfel. If you did not know better you would think that was the reason they bought it so they could polish it. Humphfel owners love to polish.

One thing you would think is that a Humphfel would be a brave beast, but the reality is they are very timid. The nest in groups, and seldom get off the pavement. Often they travel in groups for protection. They do migrate south in the winter and slowly move back north in the summer.

Kadizzle got his palm read free. Shoot the guy for a refund

2012-01-25T07:06:00.004-07:00

At some point just about every kind of nut will appear at our LED booth. A strange lady was looking over the little LED book lights we sell. Kadizzle asked what she wanted it for and she said she was a palm reader, so Kadizzle said read mine. According to her interpretation Kadizzle will live a long time. However, the line that indicates direction for life was not there. That seems to explain how Kadizzles mind wanders constantly.

Another product we are pushing is an LED motion detector. The little gadget will turn on a light if someone approaches your RV. Kadizzle has a special promotion. The light makes it a lot easier to see someone trying to steal your generator. Our special offer is that if you buy our motion detector and shoot the guy stealing your generator because our light helped you catch him, we will pay for the bullet. Just bring in the empty shells.

The less you need something the more it cost. Our most expensive item is an LED string of lights at the top of a 23ft pole. The lights change colors randomly. Yes, you can announce to the world where you are for only $200. If you need a cheaper way to get some bling we have flashing lights like you see on a police car for thirty dollars.

I paid a higher tax rate than Mitt Romney

2012-01-24T07:32:00.002-07:00

Mitt Romney made 45 million and paid a tax rate of 13%. I need to make more so I can pay less. I paid 14%. Looks like I need to make only 1,000 times more to get my taxes reduced. Tax breaks for the rich yea.

The American Appetite for trash

2012-01-22T07:17:00.002-07:00

Selling snake oil did not go out of style in the 1800's. Kadizzle and The Commander are now embarked in their new career selling LED lights at the biggest RV show on the planet. Eight hours of people marching by begging to get their pockets cleaned with every type of health care fraud, 19.95 gadget, and silly fribble you can imagine. When you see what people are willing to buy you can see why so many Americans are broke. Some simple minded dinger who lives in a shack will by an electric fly swatter. A major product sold here is rocks, call them minerals if you want. When you are broke the last thing you need is a sparkling rock, but that is what the dingers buy sell and trade.

There is always some product that will solves some problem you never knew you had. Put some magnets in your shows, shock your back a little bit. You are healed. To make sure you need to be healed there is every type of the sorriest food on the planet. Rat meat sandwiches, deep fried skunk butts, sponges soaked in grease.

Only at an idiots convention will you get something free for three easy payments of 19.95. If you cannot afford to cloth and feed yourself, then you need a dog. Pet gadgets that pick up the pet hair in your double wide are popular. On it goes with hucksters making sure the poor stay poor.

A strange site indeed

2012-01-20T19:04:00.003-07:00

Sitting in the same spot for about a week we had some neighbors to the West of us. Two truck campers had been there for a few days. Like most places people visit you find out who you are sharing the area with. So Kadizzle decided to make the customary introduction. The people living in the two truck campers did not seem to be in the best of economic conditions. After talking to them for a little bit they explained that they were buying minerals, rocks, whatever to take back to their home town and sell.

Kadizzle has seen some badly scared people in his life, but one of the two bearded men sitting by the truck campers seemed to have suffered from some strange malady Kadizzle has never seen before. The poor man had no nose. It appeared he had lost his nose from some bizarre accident, or some sort of vicious cancer. There was no question the poor man knew the effect his face would have on people. Looking directly into a person's sinuses was one of the strangest sights Kadizzle has ever seen. There was a small piece of bone, but what was strangest of all was the total blackness inside this mans head, as if it were charcoal or burnt.

The Commander came over to join the conversation. The man certainly knew the effect his face would have on her. He sort of turned away from her and covered his face. She did not see what Kadizzle saw. The whole thing made you feel very sorry for the man. What could he do? In public it would be very embarrassing. It would be hard to imagine how any kind of plastic surgery could work.

Walking back to our camper I thought about the women in Afghanistan. It is not uncommon for men there to cut the nose off a woman they feel has demeaned the family. To read about it is one thing, but to see first hand what it would be like is entirely different.

Could this man have lost his nose to cancer? The whole crew he was with were heavy smokers. If cancer did this to this man there could be no better add anywhere to stop people from tobacco. It was a tragedy that will not be forgotten.

Another hard hike today

2012-01-19T20:11:00.003-07:00

Kadizzle thought we got it out of our system yesterday, but The Commander was raring to go today, so we blasted back up into the mountains. This is the satellite view of where we went. The blue line on the left is where The Commander returned from the top of the mountain. The Commander claims she found an Indian site right where you see the sharp mark on the far left.

A peek at Signal Peak

2012-01-19T08:02:00.004-07:00

Things always look simple on the map. You just drive down this road turn on that road, and zippy do da there you are ready to start your hike. Yesterday the Kadizzlites made their assault on Signal Peak.

The first thing to do on a day with a long hard difficult hike is do a BDS. A BDS is Brain Dead Stupid. The Brain Dead Stupid thing we did before the main event was to visit Palm Canyon. We took a short hike up a canyon to see some rare palm trees that had managed to survive in a crevice. The reason this was BDS is because it wasted valuable hiking time that was needed for the main event. Lesson learned it is BDS to take a short hike when you have a long hard hike planned.

Now to the main event, the assault on signal peak. The gravel road leading to Signal Peak is seven miles long. It is one of those cleverly designed roads that just keeps getting worse and worse at such a gradual rate it keeps leading you on. The great part of these roads is if you have a wife like Jasper Littlebottom along. At some point Jasper will say "I don't think we should go any farther". Jasper will say this at ever more frequent intervals and with ever louder volume. At about 5.5 miles into the canyon Jasper was going pretty wild assuring Kadizzle the truck would be ruined. We pushed on to 6.8 and Kadizzle started to believe we may not be able to turn around and would indeed be stuck. So at 6.8 we got out and walked to the trail head.

As it always does it turned out as soon as we started walking on the road it got better we could have made it all the way. The road was one of those deals where you can just barely squeeze between two rocks, or you can just barely clear one big rock in the middle of the stream bed and of course you scratch the didly out of you truck trying to avoid rocks.

Finally at the start of the hike we had to scramble up a rocky stream bed. Next we start straight up the side of the mountain on loose rock, and then straight up some more. Since we had earlier eaten up precious time with our Brain Dead Stupid routine we now were about three quarter the way to the peak and it was about three in the afternoon. The trail seemed to be getting only worse and we had already encountered areas we had to cling to rocks and climb. The prudent thing to do was go back down. Coming off a mountain in the dark on marble rolling rocks is not a good idea. We made it down and both agreed it was a very scenic and nice area. Hopefully we have been vaccinated against BDS.

Hyper Activity among the elderly

2012-01-18T08:22:00.002-07:00

Kadizzle's dear wife has always struggled with hyper activity. Fortunately Kadizzle has not had the affliction. Kadizzle can sit all day and watch paint dry, but Jasper Littlebottom has fire in the undies and has to get going. Today Littlebottom wants to hike up Signal Peak in Kofa National Wildlife refuge.

So as poor old Lord Kadizzle tried to awaken properly Littlebottom kept urging him to get out of bed. Because of sinus problems Kadizzle must get up slowly in five stages. Sinus draining means the head can only be raised about two inches at a time in the morning.

Once on the trail Littlebottom will be like a hunting dog fresh out of the kennel. She will be blasting down the trail at light speed as old diesel Kadizzle tries to get enough air to the engine to keep moving.

Now for the scary news. The rattlesnakes around here do not hibernate, so they will be out if it is warm. Last year not to far from here Kadizzle had his closest encounter with one. Kadizzle crawled down between two large boulders to join the company of a rattler waiting to taste his tender cheeseburger meat.

An Unbelievalbe march to the dump.

2012-01-17T07:58:00.003-07:00

The Earth Module is parked close enough to interstate ten that Kadizzle can hear the truck traffic. Laying in bed listening to trucks all night one wonders where the trucks are heading, and what they are hauling? Then it occurred to Kadizzle that everything those trucks haul ultimately ends up in the dump. We are an unbelievable nation of consumers. Interstate ten is just a small arty of the highway system hauling junk. Huge container ships from China bring fribbles across the Pacific. Tons of stuffed animals make their way to Wall Mart. It takes billions of gallons of fuel to get all the 19.95 items from some poor village in China to Aunt Gertie.
To the North a train load of crap snakes across the country every 15 minutes with the new flat screen Tv's. Every television in the United States had to be replaced with a flat screen. Well over 200 million cell phones will be thrown out this year and the new ones are on the way down the road.
There is little doubt in my mind we will overwhelm the ability of the planet to support us. We are a cancer on the Earth. When you drive down the road and see one passenger in a six ton vehicle going to get a pack of cigarettes three miles away, you know it is hopeless. Don't get Kadizzle wrong, we are as good at wasting crap as the next guy. Sitting here with those trucks just constantly humming hauling all that shit that fills Wall Mart just makes it seem like it is impossible for people to be consuming nonsense at such a rate. When you get to the shopping center and see shopping carts draped with six packs of faticide. Humongus lumpers filling the carts with cheetoes, (Lord Kadizzle is a humongus lumper) you need to think of a constant stream of trucks hauling George Forman grills to cook the cheeseburgers. You need to think of all the crap that you just pitched out as packaging at Christmas. How much crap do we need?

Quarzite

2012-01-16T19:47:00.003-07:00

People used to say that if you turned the United States on end everything that is loose would roll to California. As The Commander and Lord Kadizzle spend their first night in Quartzite, maybe that phrase should be changed. If the United States were a funnel everything that was lose would roll out the bottom and land in Quartzite.
Quartzite has the quality of an ongoing carnival. Every concievalbe thing is for sale. Every babble, all the expired groceries, and anything Wall Mart left in the dumpster is on sale for half price. If you need something for an RV someone is selling it. If it was ever invented for an Rv it is for sale.
The main event will start Saturday. That will be the day the Big Tent opens. The Big Tent is for the special pocket cleaning. The tent is about two blocks long and full of vendors.
There are three basic classes of camping. You can get the whole hookup routine for thirty bucks a night. If you dry camp close to the main event it is 7 bucks for dry camping. For 3 bucks a night you can stay on BLM land that is within a mile or two. If you are ultra cheap the desert is endless for free. To be close to our jobs the Earth Module is in a 7 dollar place.
No TV signal seems to want to penetrate into this vast sea of RV's. So there will be a lot of internet time. When this show goes full steam there could be between 150 and 200,000 people here buying crap no one really needs. The ultimate thing you will never need is a rock. However, every rock God ever invented is here by the truck load. There are some very interesting things made from minerals, and rock, and there are some very interesting rocks to look at. Stay tuned for tomorrows report after we have sent the peddal powered rovers out to find the best price on expired groceries.

Major Move for the Earth Module scheduled today.

2012-01-16T07:58:00.003-07:00

As the sun tries to peek through the clouds and the desert smells fresh from the rain the crew of the Earth Module is preparing for blast off. Fossil fuels have been topped off, the ballast has to be dumped, and new supplies of water have to be loaded. There is enough food on board for nine days in the desert.
The goal is to save the universe by selling LED lights at the largest RV gathering on Earth. In Quarzite the tribes will gather for a huge mineral show, and swap meet. The Kadizzlelites will be helping a vendor sell LED that will enable you to extend your time off the power grid by a factor of seven.
Pictured above is one of the old wild horses that roam the desert around here. Apparently when horse owners get in a bind they just let their horse lose in the desert. There must be a least twenty of them around here. Birth control may be in their future after they figure out how to do it. Getting them to take the pills on schedule may present some problems. They refuse to use more conventional methods and there are rumors a lot of the horses are Catholic.

The Commander has a Birthday

2012-01-15T08:54:00.002-07:00

Without The Commander to manage every aspect of his life Kadizzle would be lost. Ofter when left alone Kadizzle can be seen wandering in circles without the leadership of The Commander.

As if The Commander were not valuable enough to the expedition she now has become much more valuable. With a 62 year old Commander the warranty is just about expired, but there is a big bonus. Once you inform the government your leader has turned the magical age of 62 the goberment, which we all hate, will send you a check equal to half your social security check. Perhaps it will be even more.

This is clearly socialism, and it is terrible, but the grocery store does not know that the money is coming from the communist regime of Obama, and we don't tell them.

It turns out a lot of people who hate socialism are secretly taking money from Obama to help destroy capitalism. Why work when you can get free money in the mail and travel the southwest.

The birthday party was a big success. The Commander got to eat Thia food, and Myra made a good desert with ice cream.

A Flurry of activity at the News desk

2012-01-15T08:30:00.004-07:00

Slowly the sun comes over the Goldfield mountains and shines in the window of the Earth Module. In the desert North of Mesa Kadizzle and The Commander eventually crawl out from under the comforters that protected them from the 38 degree cold in the module. After the generator is started and the coffee is going the computers begin to hum. At the news desk the Bismarck Tribune has to be checked to see if the Hoopleheads need to be fought into submission. The New York Times has to be checked to get the party line. The Huffington post needs to be pursued to see how well Colbert, Bill Maher, and John Stewart are shooting up the Hoopleheads. After Facebook, and email, the world is falling into place. Of course during all this NPR is going in the background. By 9:30 the Kadizzlites should be reasonably up to date.

Now, it is time for the second cup of coffee. The Commander is going berserk because the New York Times has cut her off. Slowly the camp is coming to life. The generators are humming to warm up all the old goats. By now Bud has the fire going at the liars den. Decision time is approaching. How should we spend the day? Will The Commander have a forced march into the Goldfield Mountains? Will it be a day of leisure or a day getting ready for the next big move to Quartzite. Only time will tell. First on today's agenda is to investigate the rumor a mountain lion with a cub is roaming the area.

No doubt the "Horse Lady" will appear. The horse lady worries about the wild horses and thinks she is their guardian angel. Every day the horse lady observes what the horses are doing. Now the horse lady has two problems, the mountain lion might get her, and of course there is the regular problem. The regular problem is the mysterious cult, or perhaps the Indians that are killing the horses. Horse lady has found some strange ritual sites that my be a horse killing, ritual doing cult. On the other hand now that Obama has made horse meat legal, yup every problem goes back to Obama, people are killing the horses and selling the horse meat steaks.

So the sun comes up and the day unfolds. Axe handle's medication seems to be working. The Republicans are shooting each other, so all is well in the universe. Soon The Commander will bark out the orders for the day, but for now she is calmly sitting in from of her mini laptop content to surf the net, so Kadizzle will have his second cup of coffee and sign off. Have a good day.

Axe Handle Returns

2012-01-13T20:18:00.004-07:00

The Earth Module has been sitting in the same spot for ten days. The little community is made up of The Editor, a single lady who edits books from her RV. She did the editing for the guy who wrote "The Turning Point". Diana is down in the corner by the camp host.
To the North is Johnny, his wife and the two big fifth wheels from Michigan. That gang did a little musical yesterday. Outside they picked away while Johnny played the electronic piano.
Bud is down in the NW corner with his replacement for his wife that died last year. Anita, Bud's new companion has produced 14 children. Anita has been having some kidney issues, with kidney stones.
Stan pulled in today while were hiking with Ruth and Rodger. Stan has a manure spreader that has been converted to a pretty nice camper for one single guy. The spreader part of the truck now carries a truck camper well equipped with solar.
The old lumber road builder is here with his wife who has had some recent cancer surgery. One big luxurious diesel Pusher is a little to the west.
Now, we get to Axe Handle. Axe handle was here last year and they had to have him forcibly removed. Seems Axe Handle does not like to pay the required fees and has a habit of threatening people. The story is up at Pebble Beach, the next campground up the river, Axe Handle was irritated by a motorcycle guy buzzing in and out of his area. Axe Handle carries an axe handle with him when he isn't taking his medications. Axe Handle had a simple solution for the annoying motorcycle. When the cyclist went by Axe Handle shoved the axe handle into his spokes. This cause a bit of a wreck as the cyclist went flying over his handle bars. Unfortunately when the law enforcement people showed up the cyclist would not press charges against Mr. Handle.

Yesterday he showed up and The Commander along with Kadizzle were not to happy about having a mental case nearby. However, something inspired Axe Handel to leave, much to our delight. Today Axe Handle came lumbering in pulling his fifth wheel. He seems in a jolly mood. Whatever he is taking is working. The camp host have assured us he is not a problem.

The camp host said if we want to get rid of him, smoke him out. Apparently he cannot stand generator smoke or fire smoke. The trick is to get up wind and give him a good dose of smoke.

Life in the Earth Module

2012-01-04T15:28:00.004-07:00

Poor old fat Lord Kadizzle has come down with the double epizootic. Lost with no energy Kadizzle is unable to do much but rest. Meanwhile, The Commander and the Axtamans are hiking a very nice trail. The transition from North Dakota back to the 70's would be perfect were it not for this wrenched epizootic. Ask Kadizzle any news question, Kadizzle has been listening to NPR non-stop for four hours.

The module is back in our favorite old spot on the Salt River. It would be a typical summer day back in ND. If the epizootic does not loosen it's grip The Commander and Kadizzle will bury Kadizzle in the desert nearby.

Jack the Artist at the Bunkhouse

2011-12-19T07:24:00.002-07:00

After we returned from the pheasant hunt this year Kadizzle suggested to his friend the journalist she do an article on Jack who stayed at the bunkhouse we hunted from.

A small town in the Old West.

2011-12-11T08:39:00.002-07:00

Our little encampment along the Salt River is like a small old western town. Wagons come rolling in and randomly they roll out. This morning we were awakened to a home made rig chugging into the parking lot. Looking at the various home made, and modified desert schooners is fun. The one that just rolled in is a truck camper mounted on the back of a two ton truck.

Tucked here and there is an ATV, a motorcycle, and several solar panels. In the southwest everyone likes to harvest the sun. A lot of the modern day drifters are obsessed with tinkering. Each guy has to have as many little inventions sprouting from his outfit as possible.

Suddenly our campground seems to be filling up. We hope it is just the weekend, but it will probably last thru the week. The guy that just pulled in said he was gone for 16 days to meet the requirement of the Forest Service. This year they seem to have a new sneaky policy. To keep hard core bums out there is a requirement you leave after 14 days. You can apply for a 28 day extension after your 14 days is up. It seems the way this really works is if they don't like you, you are voted off the island. If you have been a gruff, noisy, rude, inconsiderate neighbor, your permit is not renewed. This is good in several ways. One problems with these encampments is people who move in and accumulate crap.

Wilderness Adventure

2011-12-10T09:10:00.004-07:00

Lord Kadizzle, and Jasper Littlebottom, AKA, The Commander took off yesterday on an off trail hike. After the Kadizzlites know an area pretty well we often like to strike out on our own into unexplored territory away from the trails.

Our choice was up a creek bed toward the Superstition Mountains. Obviously going back the way we came is the simple solution, but it is no fun. As usual the two people who can never agree on anything cannot decide how to bush whack our way back.

The Commander insist she knows a simple short way back. Kadizzle had a different plan in mind. Navigating is fun in the desert and if you play your cards right it is almost a certainty you can get to a known trail. One big if is the unknown factor of hitting a canyon or cliff you cannot cross.

As often happens when two stubborn mules butt heads each of the Kadizzlites struck off in different directions for a brief period. Fortunately The Commanders route did no yield any good prospects very quickly for the direction we needed to go. We needed to go NW, but Kadizzle's stream bed seemed to head NE. Kadizzle thought the stream bed would bend to the NW, but was not sure. Either by luck or good navigating Kadizzle turned out to be correct and the route back was not too difficult. However, The Commander insist that given a little more effort her route was much quicker.

The argument has not been settled by official documentation, but Kadizzle realized as the crew hiked back that we would have got back eventually on The Commanders route, but it would have been a long hard arduous hike.

The Commander likes to hike in shorts, and she tried to persuade Kadizzle to hike bare legged. Back at the Earth Module The Commander's legs looked as if she had been clawed by a mountain lion from the cactus scratches. Had the crew taken The Commanders route we could have used her legs for hamburger.

It is always an adventure. Make sure you take a GPS, some matches, a flashlight, and a beacon. It would also be very wise to let someone know what you are up to and when you should be back. Someday Kadizzle suspects The Commander and Kadizzle will spend a cold night huddled under a space blanket, because of an adventure gone aery.

One last important word of advice. Most of the time we start hiking about 9 O'Clock. Kadizzles rule is to turn around and head back between one and two in the afternoon. Many times The Commander insist we keep going, but that rule has worked well for us. Running out of daylight and being lost is not good. On occasions when it looked as if we were in a bind, we started hiking faster to get back before dare. This leads to several bad possibilities. Going too fast leads to injuries, and if you are going in the wrong direction, you are going the wrong way faster.

Small community of content people

2011-12-07T08:17:00.002-07:00

Yesterday the Earth Module settled into an old familiar spot. Luck was on our side and we got our favorite place. Our backyard is the vast desert and no one is near us. The old regulars are here. Bud is over in the other corner. Probably will see him out dumpster diving for cans this morning. A morning ritual is going over and standing by Bud's fire to warm up in the morning. The regular camp host are here. The executive suite ( Vault Toilets) has been freshly painted and is spit shinned fit for a king.

For some strange reason the place is devoid of campers. Johnny from Canada is here waiting for his wife to join him, and the guy that travels around fixing RV's has his big outfit off to the North. The wild horses went through yesterday. Down along the river Kadizzle heard a strange noise while taking a walk. Thought it was a horse, but turned out to be a heron. The river is way down.

The plan is to take a hike today. Old Kadizzle has not stretched his legs for awhile, so it may be hard getting the engine going.

The Sun Also rises

2011-12-06T07:44:00.002-07:00

A coyote just wandered down the road in front of the Earth Module. Sunshine is spilling over the Superstition mountains.

After breakfast the Earth Module will head down the mountain to the Salt River campground. Kadizzle and The Commander made a prelanding check yesterday. The old gang is there and the place is practically empty. Being weaned from electricity will be difficult. All power will not come from God, but from the Honda 2,000 generator. God will provide sunshine and other amenities.

Temperatures could be improved, but 60 in AZ beats 12 in Hazen, ND. The Earth Module wine cellar was stocked at bargain prices yesterday, along with other supplies, so this morning it is just a matter of filling the water tank and hooking up.

Although usually a fairly shy person The Commander quickly becomes super Commander when she wants to see another camper layout. Yesterday she cajoled some people with a small camper into a tour. RV people are like sailors, always checking out all the options on other models. The camper The Commander spotted was an Oliver, this is a rare bird. First one either of us has ever seen. The Oliver is a copy of the classic Casita. The Oliver stole most of the Casita ideas and improved on them. A very well built and nice little camper, but very expensive. The Oliver has plenty of ground clearance and would be perfect for going way back in the boonies. Time for the second cup of coffee in the sunshine north of Mesa.

Muppets turn out to be Communist.

2011-12-05T09:40:00.002-07:00

Just when you think it cannot get worse Fox News informs us the Muppets are communist. After the Christian fundamentalist told us the Tele Tubies were gay, it did not seem there could be any bad news. Fox now says the Occupy Wall Street movement was caused by Muppets turning our kids into communist.

Kadizzle has always feared sharing could lead to communism. It is just like drugs. You start out with something mild and next you are hooked on cocaine. The evil Muppets, and I am sure Mr. Rogers was in on it, suggest kids share. Well sharing is nothing but socialism. How far is it from socialism to communism? Yup, you see how the Muppets, and Mr. Rogers suck the kids in. What we need are cartoons that show greedy little kids who want it all. Thank God Fox has exposed PBS and what they are up to. We would not have a Kenyan president if Fox had been listened to.

The high price of recycled trash.

2011-12-04T09:09:00.002-07:00

Don't ask why, but Kadizzle and company shopped all the thrift stores in Cottonwood yesterday. One cannot help but be amazed at the market for junk. The Commander picked up five license plates that Erin is going to use in some goofy project for one dollar per plate. Of course the junkyard would give them to you for ten cents. Railroad spikes were going for $3. You can walk down any rail line and get all you want for free. Telephone pole insulators took the cake, $25, are you kidding. One exclusive junk store had everything marked at three times what an idiot would pay for it.

There is no doubt you could go to the dump in Hazen, fill a tractor trailer with trash and sell it in Cottonwood for a nice profit.

On interesting thing about the Cottonwood stores was the smell. The thrift store in Hazen, and in all North Dakota thrift stores smell like pickle canning took place or too much sausage was fried around the clothes. In Cottonwood the store have a better smell that my sister says is desert dust mixed with sweat.

It is always interesting that things given away elsewhere are sold in thrift stores. All the silly cups, pill boxes, and other advertising give away items are sold to idiots to dumb to go next door and ask for one for free.

Sister Patty came very close to buying a framed poster with Cowboy sayings. The best and my favorite was " Don't get mad at people who are smarter than you, it is not their fault". There should be a sign in these thrift stores " It is any wonder you are in here broke, if you have been buying junk at these prices your entire life".

Functionless junk seems to market very well. There are hundreds of broken and worn out things you can buy at a dear price to just sit in your house and take up space. One good deal are the 19.95 items sold on TV. They are usually marked down to half price.

Dog VS Helicopter in Cottonwood, AZ

2011-12-03T11:39:00.001-07:00

The World reduced to a penny jar.

2011-12-02T08:38:00.002-07:00

At my sister Patty's house last night a crisis arose. The last bottle of St. Pauly Girl beer was empty. Patty instructed Lord Kadizzle to run to the local refreshment establishment and replenish the supply. As Kadizzle paid for the beer he noticed the little jar that held pennies for customers short a penny or two. On the jar were the rules as follow:

1. If you need a penny, take a penny

2. If you need two pennies, take two.

3. If you need three pennies, get a job.

Being a socialist Kadizzle would add number four. Don't take more pennies than you need, or leave enough pennies for those who really need them.

Only the Super Rich can Save US

2011-12-01T07:59:00.000-07:00

In the cozy den of the large but modest house in Omaha where he has lived since he started on his first billion, Warren Buffett watched the horrors of Hurricane Katrina unfold on television in early September 2005. . . . On the fourth day, he beheld in disbelief the paralysis of local, state, and federal authorities unable to commence basic operations of rescue and sustenance, not just in New Orleans, but in towns and villages all along the Gulf Coast. . . He knew exactly what he had to do. . ."

So begins the vivid fictional account by political activist and bestselling author Ralph Nader that answers the question, "What if?" What if a cadre of superrich individuals tried to become a driving force in America to organize and institutionalize the interests of the citizens of this troubled nation? What if some of America's most powerful individuals decided it was time to fix our government and return the power to the people? What if they focused their power on unionizing Wal-Mart? What if a national political party were formed with the sole purpose of advancing clean elections? What if these seventeen superrich individuals decided to galvanize a movement for alternative forms of energy that will effectively clean up the environment? What if together they took on corporate goliaths and Congress to provide the necessities of life and advance the solutions so long left on the shelf by an avaricious oligarchy? What could happen?

At the foot of the mountains.

2011-11-27T20:39:00.003-07:00

Daughter Erin recently had knee surgery, so Mr. and Mrs. Kadizzle have been playing, granny, grandpa, and nurse. Hopefully the wagon train will leave for New Mexico on Tuesday.

Erin has temporarily moved into a nice neighborhood in Longmont, Colorado. The community has been well planned and the bike paths and playgrounds make it a nice place to live.

Granddaughter Sylvie is so much fun. She has an incredible vocabulary and a great sense of humor. Her favorite thing is to wear her Tu Tu all day. Her ability to remember things is astounding. At two and a half she can already count to twenty. That was the West Virginia test for high school graduation.

Too Lazy to get Rich

2011-11-26T08:16:00.002-07:00

Some may say Kadizzle is bragging, but so be it. Over the years Kadizzle has had a variety of ideas that he never took the time to promote. Later Kadizzle saw the idea brought to reality.

Yesterday Kadizzle read an article about a man in England developing a system that would allow people to board high speed trains without the high speed train stopping. Kadizzle had this idea about ten years ago. Now, it looks like it may actually happen. Someday you will be able to board a mini train and make the transfer to a high speed train passing through your town.

One of the applications you can now get on your Iphone is Redlaser. Redlaser allows you to read and create bar codes. Kadizzle came up with the idea yesterday of inventing a ball cape with your barcode right on the front where the writing normally is. If someone wants to get your information the simply ask if they can snap your hat with their Iphone. The invention will be called "The Snaphat". You can bar code what ever you want onto your hat. You could put your phone number, your website, or anything else you want. Once it is read by someone's Iphone the information will be in that person's Iphone.

This is not a great leap for Redlaser because basically this was the intent of how it was to be used. Now you are seeing codes with adds in magazines, and on billboards. Some people already have adapted the codes for business cards. I predict within a short time you will see people with the equivalent of bar codes on their clothing.

In the future you will go to a party and walk up to someone. Your device will read there bar code. Their bar code will let you know any information they want made public. It may simply be "Hi my name is Fred", or it might be their resume, and a host of other information. Kadizzle predicts that within a year you will go to a convention and see bar codes have replaced name tags or will be on the name tag.

The Pirate with a Tu Tu

2011-11-19T08:28:00.003-07:00

The history of pirates is interesting. One key to their success was they usually had far more people on their ship than the ship they attacked. Pirates deliberately sought to create the impression they were mean, crazy, and dangerous. Being a bit of a pirate himself Kadizzle would naturally have a granddaughter that was a pirate. Last night in pirate pajamas grandpa read some pirate stories to Sylvie. Like so many her age she gets obsessed with a certain outfit. In this case it is always wearing a Tu Tu. So this morning the pirate with a Tu Tu was singing "heave ho, blow the man down"

The Screaming of the diesel taught me how to cry.

2011-11-17T18:18:00.003-07:00

The Commander and Lord Kadizzle just set up camp by the railroad track in Wheatland, Wyoming. It was a pleasant drive halfway to Denver from Hazen.

Kadizzle likes being by a good railroad. A train just went by. There was an old depression era song "The freight train blues".

If you play the video below you can hear the original version. Every time Kadizzle hears a train he thinks of this song.

The shear volume of coal being shipped out of Wyoming means a train load goes by about every fifteen minutes on the main line. We are on a side line, so things should not be that noisy.

Very funny, very true, share with a friend

2011-11-11T04:46:00.001-07:00

Maybe People are waking up.

2011-11-09T06:59:00.002-07:00

Perhaps there is some hope. This morning the Republican greed machine has taken some serious hits. In Arizona they got rid of a right wing rat that was preying on the fear of Mexicans. In Ohio the voters defeated another attempt by the Republicans to drive working people into the ground with union busting. In Mississippi the voters did not fall for the abortion crap the Republican party loves to hand out. So now maybe people are beginning to see who the real villains are. As the Republicans economically drive the middle class out of existence perhaps people have turned from sports to reality. Perhaps people see that because Fox says it, it is not true. There is hope.

How to poisen yourself for eight dollars.

2011-11-06T10:35:00.002-07:00

On the recent great hunting trip Kadizzle managed to lose an eight dollar cigar. Since it was just not right, Kadizzle went to the cigar store yesterday and bought the same cigar. The Commander had left instructions that when she returns from Denver the yard is to be free of leaves. The death penalty was threatened. So Kadizzle merrily went about cleaning the yard with the eight dollar cigar puffing away. Somewhere near the end of the job the nicotine poisoning struck. For awhile Kadizzle though it might be the last day of his life. Kadizzle considered leaving word with The Commander that if she came home and found his cigar smelling body in a heap it was the cigar that did it. After a brief puking session, and a series of cold sweats the sickness went away. Kadizzle decided to check the toxicology of nicotine. Children can be killed by chewing nicotine gum. Nicotine is used in insecticides to kill insects. One giant refrigerator bug was just about killed at our house with it. This is not the first time old Kadizzle has experienced the fine feeling of a little nicotine poison. In College Kadizzle's body was simultaneously trying to evacuate some nicotine from chewing tobacco. That was the last attempt at that. After yesterdays lesson, it may be a long time before Kadizzle tries another cigar. Old hillbilly farmers used to tell Kadizzle a wad of chewing tobacco would rid a horse of worms. So there is a good side to my spell yesterday.

Occupy Bismarck

2011-10-26T10:35:00.000-07:00

An absolute, must watch, funny, on the test video

2011-10-26T10:14:00.001-07:00

If you can verify that you showed this to a right winger I will send you ten dollars. It knocks it out of the park.

Steve Jobs Blast Fox News, and does a damn good job of it.

2011-10-26T06:41:00.002-07:00

Click on this and read what Steve Jobs told Ruport Murdock the evil scrooge behind Fox News. Jobs tells Murdock how destructive to society Fox's lying is. http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif

Strippers in Williston, Strippers in Hazen

2011-10-25T07:03:00.002-07:00

Years ago when the boom was going full bore in Hazen the Bar at the Crossroads had strippers. An old friend asked Kadizzle and a bunch of other men to help tear down an old building. After the work was done all the men went to the Crossroads for a drink. It was late in the afternoon on a Saturday. The place had a big crowd watching the stripper. This stripper did a routine where she put baby powder in her G string. When she snapped the G string it appeared smoke came out. Most of the crowd was half drunk and rowdy. The wife of the bar owner had a buggy whip she used to keep drunks away from the stage. The highlight of the show was a drunk native American who called himself "Quofum Puffum". Quofum Puffum would get up pull down his pants and moon everyone in the crowd while doing a war dance. Everyone would cheer and the night went on.

This morning CNN featured a story about the strippers in Williston making 2k per night. It must be just like the old days at the Crossroads. If you drive by the Crossroads where 200A turns north from 200 you might see a small barn like building beside the house that used to be the bar. The Rumor was that the strippers did some work on the side to pick up extra cash in that little barn like building. Nothing like an oil boom to stir the economy.

Shooting up Dingers

2011-10-24T05:41:00.003-07:00

Kadizzle was walking along a fence line by the lake hunting pheasants when his phone rang. Someone wanted to take him up on his bet. Kadizzle had bet the dingers on the Bismarck Tribune blog cite $500 that 15 out of 20 Canadians would prefer their health care to the American system. It turned out to be Big Jake. Big Jake is another Hooplehead buster that fights the right wing Hooples. Big Jake was just pulling Kadizzles leg, he knew it was a suckers bet. The Hoopleheads would never actually put their money on the lies of Rush Limbaugh and Fox News. Recently Kadizzle spent eight days in Canada and talked to twenty Canadians. Every one of them said they were well satisfied with their health care and could not believe the way Americans lied about their system.

This was the first conversation Kadizzle had with Big Jake. Big Jake does a good job of hitting the Hooples with facts and blows a lot of them out of the water. The conversation went on for a long time and The Commander wondered what happened to the hunt. It is always fun to talk to another fighter in the war against misinformation. So far Kadizzle has talked to two other blog addicted fools. It turned out Honest Omar is a boater, and Kadizzle has spent many hours with Honest Omar BSing, sharing articles and drinking wine.

Kadizzle has only spoken with one right wing dinger. It was a polite and good discussion. Someday for fun Kadizzle might invite all the blogg fighters left and right to breakfast in Bismarck. It would be fun to meet all the people who think you can reason with those on the other side of the universe.

Big Jake has an addiction equal to Kadizzle. Big Jake told a good story about how his grandson figured out that the guy who writes under the name Big Jake was his grandfather.

Kadizzle believes if you believe something, you should be able to support your belief with facts, and you should be able to express in writing what you believe. Our country is plagued with people who accept too much at face value. That is what brought Hitler to power, people unwilling to question what someone told them. Our country is in an economic crises and it is time for people to wake up.

What don't you get about this?

2011-10-22T10:00:00.001-07:00

Childhood home featuted in movie

2011-10-22T07:29:00.006-07:00

Recently a movie called "Doughboy" was filmed in my home town of Wheeling, West Virginia. The set they used for the home scenes were done in the house where Kadizzle grew up. The picture above was made in what was our living room. The current owners use it as a dinning room. The house was built around 1914 by a man that owned a brewery. The door you see on the left side of the picture was never opened in Kadizzles whole life. The door was behind an upright piano and there was no way to get to it. If you click on the picture it will get larger. As you look through one door you see a second door that leads to the basement. Kadizzle's mother could not bear to throw out a good mayonnaise jar, and the little shelf beside the steps always was lined with jars.

Sailboats have multiplied like weeds.

2011-10-17T03:00:00.004-07:00

Yesterday as the crew of the Sovereign pulled into the winter storage yard for the boats Kadizzle and The Commander both remarked how the sail boats had taken over. Being a sailor for 25 years old Kadizzle has seen it go both ways. Sailboats had their first surge when the energy crises started. People saw it as a way to beat the game. High fuel prices don't affect the wind much. As usual this summer most of the expensive power boats sat at the dock, floating cabins. Every year a few more sailors have been joining the ranks. Looking around the boat yard there was only one power boat of any consequence. In defense of the piston heads it must be said they now mostly store there boats indoors in Riverdale. There is something about luxury that is counter productive. In a few minutes I will have to walk to the end of the driveway to get the paper. There was a time it was right outside the door. Now, the inconvenience forced me to take a little walk and smell the morning air. Sailing works the same way. On a sailboat you sit outside and enjoy the planet with no noisy motor. Sure a sailboat is inconvenient by power boat standards, but what is the point of looking out the window of your power boat while you push buttons, isn't that what you do when you watch television. People are waking up to the pleasures of inconvenience, it might be gardening, or it might be hiking, but doing things the old way has it's rewards. Who is enjoying the scenery the most? The guy driving down the road at 70mph or the guy pedaling at 8mph? At the end of the day who has a sense of accomplishment?

Riding the Surely Pugsley.

2011-10-16T08:42:00.003-07:00

While doing some touring in Alaska a woman pulled up to the overlook on a Surely Pugsley bike. The tires on the bike were huge and my immediate reaction was, boy would that be hard to pedal. So Lord Kadizzle wandered over to the older woman and asked how the bike performed. The kind lady said hop on and try it. The bike had huge flotation tires like the airplanes in Alaska do. Very quickly Kadizzle realized the bike performed very well. The Pugsley is designed to go anywhere you want. Through the woods, over sand or snow, and a lot of places the current bike would never think of. If you are wondering what to get me for Christmas this is the answer.

The Only Newspaper

2011-10-16T06:53:00.003-07:00

Every Morning old Lord Kadizzle reads the New York Times. This morning there is an article by Kristoff about the economic mess we are in. If you really want an honest view of what is going on in the world you can read Tom Friedman, Paul Krugman, and a host of other real thinkers and writers. These are people who win Noble Prizes for their skills.

On the flip side of the coin you can stick to local papers like the Bismarck Tribune and read about the quilting bee. If Jesus appeared in Bismarck and declared he was a Democrat the Bismarck Tribune would do a story on the leaves falling from the trees on the front page. Then there is the Fox News, Rush Limbaugh crowd who loves to be told what they like to be told. We all like to be told there is a Santa Clause, so Rush and Fox tell everyone there is a Santa Clause but Obama will not let him come to America.

400 Families now have as much wealth as the bottom 150,000,000 Americans. This is an economic disaster you can read about in Kristoff's article today. It is not something someone made up like they do on Fox, it is a fact gathered from real data.
On Fox Glenn Beck said God talked to him. No reporter I ever read in the New York Times claimed their information came from God.

Found the Keys

2011-10-11T17:00:00.002-07:00

After a two and a half mile hike up the mountain the car keys were not at the top. The car keys were not where we thought. However on the way down with a careful search Lord Kadizzle found the Keys. Two hours of looking paid off, but now we are sore from two mountain hikes in a row.

Open this up and open your mind to the truth

2011-10-11T16:59:00.000-07:00

How to painfully lose keys

2011-10-11T08:22:00.002-07:00

During yesterdays forced march number two with The Commander the keys to the car were lost on the trail. This means today we will start at day break and rehike the two and one half mile steep trail. Lord Kadizzle suspects the keys fell out when he pulled the flip camera from his pocket while making a video of a grouse. Fortunately the hike is in one of the most scenic places in the U.S. on the Seward Highway. Hiking yesterday we got to see a bore tide. Only sixty places on earth have such a tide. A single wave rushes up the estuary. It is a sight to behold. The tide is predictable and it is a matter of being there on time. Tomorrow the expedition to Alaska ends. The timing seems perfect we have hit an incredible run of excellent weather.

How did they do it?

2011-10-07T08:19:00.002-07:00

Traveling where trappers and miners explored the Yukon and Alaska Kadizzle has to ask, "How did they do it?". How could a person have enough supplies to travel into the wild? The task these people undertook seems surmountable. Until you see how vast and rugged the terrain is you cannot imagine what they accomplished. Winters must have been an endurance contest that few could win.

Back to Civilization

2011-10-06T07:33:00.001-07:00

Eight days of driving, and the Kadizzles have landed in Anchorage. No more hotel rooms. Fresh seafood every night.

Into the Yukon

2011-10-03T19:26:00.000-07:00

Lunch in the Yukon

2011-10-03T18:20:00.000-07:00

2011-10-03T06:47:00.000-07:00

The Bear Truth

2011-10-03T06:40:00.002-07:00

The Commander demands correctness in approaching bears. Driving at 70 mph and suddenly seeing a bear by the road makes it hard to sneak up on the guy in the black suit. However we finally found an older more experienced fellow that was apparently used to the tourist trade. Mr. Bear kept eating his lunch right beside the car.

On to Jaspar

2011-09-30T19:33:00.004-07:00

As usual with The Commander a short hike turns into an exercise the Marines would be proud of. After we did our tour at the wonderful Banff Hotel the Kadizzles headed to Lake Moraine. Like the nearby Lake Louise it was that incredible blue. After gaining a couple thousand feet above the lake we reached the larch trees that were changing color. The views were spectacular. As the day progressed the amazing sites never quit. The first grizzly appeared along the road and Lord Kadizzle began to believe that perhaps The Commander was justified in buying the bear spray. The trip from Banff to Jasper would be hard to beat for scenery per mile.

Kadizzle In Canada, on the way to Alaska

2011-09-28T18:43:00.002-07:00

Day two of the big trip. Tonight we stay at a nice bed and breakfast in the Canadian Rockies. Friends we met in AZ are putting us up and Glenn gave us a nice tour of the area. The trees are turning and the area is in it's high glory of fall.

Kadizzle has been interviewing Canadians all day about their health care. They love it. The total bullshit in the U.S about Canadian health care is hard to believe when you actually talk to Canadians. Why the United States does not just simply adopt the Canadian system is hard to understand. This morning at the Comfort Inn in Medicine Hat Kadizzle talked to five Canadians. Every one of them said they love their health care and there is no way they would put up with the American crap. If you ever go to Canada see what they really think. How the right wing has lied really hits you when you talk to Canadians.

Coming upon an Elk unexpectedly

2011-08-17T21:07:00.001-07:00

This morning the huge elk showed up again. He has some sort of tracking collar on him. After he left the first time we thought he was gone for the day. Later Cissie took Sylvie over to play in the stream by Erin's house at the water fall. I went farther up stream to sit at the little camp fire spot by the stream. Just as I got there I accidentally surprised the big elk as he was drinking from the stream. The elk took off running downstream toward Cissie and Sylvie. I was afraid he would run right into them. I yelled at them to let them know he was coming. Luckily the elk ran up the side of the mountain. Waiting for Cissie and Sylvie to return I spotted him again up above us.

If your not good at thinking don't do a lot of it

2011-08-17T06:43:00.002-07:00

A good quote is always a pleasure. Yesterday Kadizzle heard another one. A commentator was talking about the rise of Rick Perry the governor of Texas and he said. "Perry is like a monkey climbing a tree, the higher he gets the uglier it looks". My old boss in the coal business was a good old southern fellow and he could pull out a saying at the right time. One day another manager came in his office and was arguing to buy a new expensive piece of equipment. Hubert heard his presentation and then rubbed his chin and said " It's nice to have a girlfriend if you can afford it". You never knew for sure what these things meant, but Kadizzle took it to mean some things are nice but unnecessary. Another favorite of Hubert's was "Even a blind hog will root". Apparently that means even an idiot will stumble upon a good idea once in awhile. An all time favorite is "Busier than a one legged man in an ass kicking contest". Country wisdom has it's own charm.

A good bum story

2011-08-16T12:42:00.002-07:00

Listen to this whole story and see how this guy got the FBI to plant his garden

Warren Buffett says "Stop Coddling the Rich"

2011-08-16T12:08:00.002-07:00

Warren Buffett is a rich person with a conscience. Read his article Stop Coddling the Rich This is a great article to share with right wing dingers that buy the trickle down nonsense. How can they argue with Warren Buffett? They cannot call him stupid. They cannot say he doesn't understand business. This is a terrific way to open the eyes of a right winger that things you can have prosperity without taxing the rich.

Erin Wants to live at the Airport

2011-08-16T05:42:00.004-07:00

Daughter Erin took the Kadizzlites on a grand tour of the housing development at the old Stapleton Airport. A little strange to see the control tower sticking up in the middle of suburbia, but the old airport has been converted to yuppie paradise. Strangely the trend is to go back to the old neighborhood design Kadizzle grew up in. The front porch has become the in thing. Garages behind the house are back in style. However, open space is shared and at a premium. The curse of modern life is transportation. Cars are the bane of society. Once the love affair with cars comes to and end and some kind of sensible transportation is developed space will be freed up for people. There are no streets in front of the houses, which works out nicely. Instead there is a nice little green space shared by the neighborhood. There are huge green space areas nearby with trails, creeks, swimming pools and even a sled riding hill. Other than the control tower you would never know it was an airport.

Anyone can hit a rock, it just takes concentration

2011-08-13T05:29:00.002-07:00

About a week ago the Kadizzles were pulling out of a bay under sail. Through a series of errors and inattention the good ship hit a rock hard. Luckily the good ship was moving very slowly. Lake Sakakawea has very few places where you can ram a good hard rock while sailing. However, a good captain can do it. This was not the first time the captain discovered new land. The keel had been patched in the magic spot where the rock finder is located last year. The Commander did not look too joyful when the loud bank indicated we had discovered solid ground. For dramatic effect most of the patch from last year floated to the surface. Now, for the fun part. The Commander seemed in a panic, but Kadizzle is not allowed to say that. The Commanders perception was more like we hit an ice berg with the Titanic. Feeling sure we were taking on water The Commander went below and turned on the sump pump. Gushing water was the first thing she heard. The sound of the water made it clear the boat was sinking at an unbelievable rate, so The Commander quickly hailed the other boats in our fleet to stand by for rescue. Kadizzle thought it highly unlikely hitting a rock with the keel would sink the boat. The only real way to know was to pick up the floor board and actually see what was happening. Things are never what the seem. After the floor board was out of the the way it became apparent coincidence had played a bad trick on us. The hose had come off the sump pump. The pump was doing a spectacular job of pumping water in a circle making a noise like a fountain. The boat was in no real danger. Keels were put on sail boats to make them idiot proof. The keel of a boat is like the bumper on a car, when it makes a loud noise the car slows down quickly and that is your indication you did something wrong. Sailboats just don't go that fast, so they are almost completely idiot proof. Of course Kadizzle needs a hobby that is idiot proof.

What a day on the Lake

2011-08-12T05:13:00.000-07:00

Some Damn Good advice for Obama

2011-08-10T12:15:00.001-07:00

The Flying drunk Dinger

2011-07-23T05:57:00.004-07:00

It was a dark and rainy night when a drunken dinger flew down our street and became airborne. The God of drunks was watching over him, a few more feet and the dinger express would have done a nice nose dive into the creek by our house. The moral of the story is don't drink and fly. At the end of our street is the perfect ramp to launch a car into the creek if you hit it at about forty.

Rush Limbaugh bombed, you have to watch

2011-07-15T06:04:00.000-07:00

Mind Boggling Stupidity

2011-07-13T06:46:00.002-07:00

This morning I ordered medicine from Canada. Speaking to the Canadian lady during the order we discussed Canadian health care and how misinformed Americans are about Canada's system. The lady talks to a lot of Americans about the Canadian system. She told me how Americans believe the lies Fox News spreads about Canadian health care. She told me there is no way in hell she would change for our system. It is a simple test. Call up a Canadian and ask them how they like their health care. I bet one hundred dollars that if you you make a random call to Canada and ask a Canadian if they would switch to the American disaster you will get a resounding no. The Canadian woman told me " If our system was so bad, wouldn't we be fighting it?". Makes sense to me. Americans have become so ignorant and obsessed with right wing lying it is hopeless. As Americans we pay three times what any other civilized country does for health care and get worse results. Sure our system is great if you are rich, but God have mercy upon you if you are not. How can we be so stupid?

Summer is Chugging along

2011-07-06T16:07:00.004-07:00

Sailing season is finally underway. Last weekend the good ship had three nice nights on the lake. Sleeping on the water is hard to beat when there is no wind. The lake looks so different at it's record high. To sail over islands that used to stick ten feet out of the water is amazing.

400 Families have more income than 150,000,000

2011-06-22T05:10:00.002-07:00

Last night Kadizzle saw his hero Bernie Sanders the socialist on the new Keith Olberman show. According to Bernie the top 400 families in the United States now have more income than the bottom 150 million people in this country, and simple minded right wing dingers wonder why our economy is in trouble? Anyone who cannot see the income disparity problem and it's implications is just watching too much Fox News. It is absolutely amazing that with Republican greed at its current level the right wing wants even more tax cuts for the rich. Meanwhile they want to destroy any hope for affordable health care, cut social security, and destroy medicare. These soulless greed driven scum are blinded by selfishness.

Reality test

2011-06-20T05:14:00.003-07:00

Last week Kadizzle spoke with a young intelligent young computer programmer. He did not know that rich people pay no social security tax on any dollar they make over 106K. Very few people know those making over $106,000 do not pay social security tax on each dollar over that they earn. It is a wonderful tax break for the rich no one knows about. The implications of this break for the rich are very interesting. The young in our country are being hammered by Republican greed. To understand this game read The New York Times article advocating raising what people get in social security.

A June to Forget

2011-06-15T19:30:00.002-07:00

So far this has been one of the most uneventful June's in history. Nothing happened except the flood on the Missouri. The Missouri flooded because it rained day and night all month. That translates into a lot of internet, TV watchin, and general time wasting. Not that Kadizzle ain't a good time waster, but even that gets old.

In Coal Country we do it differently.

2011-06-07T05:01:00.001-07:00

Most weddings involve a dance at city hall in Hazen. Since we are in heavy mining country this is often the transportation of choice.

Republican Map of the World

2011-05-28T06:54:00.001-07:00

Click on Map to enlarge and make readable

Throw the grenade back. Remember the Death Panel?

2011-05-25T05:56:00.003-07:00

The sorrowful, greedy, Republicans are whinning because they got burnt on the Paul Ryan medicare plan. The poor Republicans are crying foul. The Democrats turned the table on the right wing greed machine. Remember the Death Panel lie the Republicans used to destroy health care reform. They made up that shit and it spread, now they claim the Democrats are spreading falsehoods about Paul Ryans voucher system to reform medicare. The throw granny off the cliff story is working for the Democrats. It is waking granny up to what rotten greedy scum Newt and his gang are, so the Rush gang is crying and screaming foul. What's good for the goose, is apparently not good for the gander.

Could people be getting smarter?

2011-05-24T19:54:00.002-07:00

Rush Limbaugh is losing his audience, as are other right wing story tellers. Could people be getting smarter. After the Republicans voted to give 21 billion to the oil companies even the simplest Hooplehead must be confused. The Republicans have painted themselves into a corner. The dumbest old goat Republican knows it makes no sense to cut medicare while you give billions in tax cuts to Bush's buddies. Glenn Beck showed that when you keep getting goofier and goofier even Fox will pitch you out the window. Even the hard core stupid have limits. Fox knew that and got rid of Beck. Hopefully people finally got tired of Rush's message of hate, and greed.

Lets push Granny off the cliff

2011-05-21T14:08:00.002-07:00

This is a good add to hit the Republican greed machine with. If you listen to the entire thing you will notice in the discussion, the Fox guy will not allow the woman to make an obvious point. You give the rich 700 Billion in tax cuts and then you say you cannot afford to take care of people with affordable health care. The real clincher is Fox was such a big player in the Death Panel lie, now this sorrowful guy has the balls to call this add unacceptable. Classic right wing nonsense. When you use their own tactics against them they go nuts.

The World will start to end on Saturday.

2011-05-20T07:23:00.002-07:00

As my sister pointed out, the world will not actually end on the 21, but will start to end, it will take until October to get it all done. We just planted the garden so it was a big disappointment having the world end. Now, it looks like we can get a crop in. Having the world end in October creates a lot of confusion. Should I diet? Should we keep making payments? There are just so many decisions to make with the world ending. Since the start of the end will be on television we are glad we just got a new flat screen. Actually we have been preparing for the end a long time. We have not changed the oil on the car, we have let so many things go the world ending is going to save us a lot of money. In late October we will drink everything in the liquor cabinet. I just put new tires on the truck, boy was that a mistake, I could have made it to the end of the world with the old ones. The Commander is going to buy me blue jeans today. It might be a waste of money, but I want to look nice for the end. Budgeting is a lot easier with the end in site. We can live like kings. The bad news is every vacation spot will be crowded as everyone is going to want to vacation before the world ends. We are going to do a lot of looting. The righteous, which will not be us will get drawn up early, so that means all their stuff will be available. Maybe a righteous person has a nice sailboat we can get. The righteous should be selling stuff dirt cheap tomorrow. There are just too many things you have to think about with the world ending. It takes so much worry out of decisions.

John Stewart cooks O'Rielly.

2011-05-16T18:47:00.001-07:00

Watch the implosion.

2011-05-13T10:39:00.003-07:00

The last two weeks have seen the Republicans imploding. One after another their little delusional world is blowing up. Tax breaks for oil companies, would you want to have to spin that one? The killing of Bin Laden made Republicans heads spin, there goes that game. Trump blew up and went away. Newt, the little rat is running. Michelle Backmann is crazier than ever. Ensign blew up like a toxic bomb with his sexual abuse scandal and he is taking the fake religious gang down with him. The Catholic church has called out the Republican speaker of the house for being the greedy bastard he is. Huckabee is showing what a complete religious nut he is with his racist cartoons. Mitt is flip flopping on health care like a fish out of water. It is better than a circus watching Republican clowns shoot their feet off.

The worlds worst rat wants Obama to fail

2011-05-10T15:57:00.002-07:00

Listen to the mother of all pigs

Lets take America Back. From who?

2011-05-09T13:13:00.001-07:00

Danger, Toxic, Do not watch if you vote Republican

2011-05-08T05:55:00.001-07:00

Bush reports his version of Bin Ladin death

2011-05-05T05:07:00.000-07:00

President Bush Reacts to Osama Bin Laden's Death with Will Ferrell from Will Ferrell

May You Live in Interesting Times

2011-04-29T08:59:00.002-07:00

"May you live in interesting times". Supposedly this is an old Chinese curse, but our nation may be under that curse. When 46% of Republicans say they would vote for Donald Trump, a man who is completely deranged and willing to demonstrate it daily, we are surely in "interesting times". At a time when the rich are paying the lowest taxes they have paid in history, and asking for more tax breaks, we are living "in interesting times". When people will watch Fox News spew lies and propaganda, and think they are really watching news, we are "living in interesting times". Perhaps the China that we now owe 900 billion dollars has successfully put a curse on us. We are living on a Chinese credit card. The Chinese are famous for being patient. The Chinese have been patient enough to lend us the money we need to destroy ourselves. We borrowed 700 billion from our Chinese friends so we could give the rich the Bush tax breaks they deserve. Indeed we are living in "interesting times".

Save money, and leave the crooks behind with your telephone

2011-04-28T10:28:00.003-07:00

After years of fighting the crooked management of West River Telecommunications Lord Kadzzle has thrown in the towel and given up on his land line. Now for the same price Kadizzle gets internet service on his phone where ever he goes. This is how you do it, it is free. You port you land line number to your cell phone, or just give up your land line. Now, when you call Kadizzle at 701-748-6111 you will be calling his new Iphone. The money that used to pay for the CEO at West River Telecommunications winter vacations, now pays for the internet service on the Iphone. Rural Telephone cooperatives are one of the biggest abusers of government subsidies that ever existed. The whole concept of rural phone coops is outdated. With cell phones they are a relic of the past that is unneeded. It used to be farmers could not get phone service, but now they can call from the cell phone in the tractor. The sad part of this story is that small towns could be served by digital phone service are kept from doing so by the clever maneuvering of the rural phone coops. Rural phone coops have found a way to funnel the subsidies they get from the federal government directly to the customer. The whole thing violates every principle of a free market Republicans love to harp about. However, West River Telecommunications is run by Republicans. The crooked board and CEO have used the phone company for years to promote the candidacy of District 33's, Randy Christmann. If you are still a member of WRT you can request a ballot and vote the scoundrels out. It is time to change this nest of thieves.

Wonderful testimonial to what a complete scum Donald Trump is

2011-04-27T15:04:00.001-07:00

The Donald sets a new standard for how low a person can go to promote himself.

View from the office

2011-04-27T12:28:00.004-07:00

Did not get the picture I wanted, but this gives you an idea. This deer was directly in front of Erin's desk, perhaps three feet away. What an office, you get to see deer, elk, and an occasional fox walk right by.

This is not a choice, you have to watch this

2011-04-26T04:39:00.002-07:00

If you watch this, and still have an once of respect for Rush Limbaugh, you need to seek professional help.

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Franklin Graham, the Junior Rat of Billy Graham

2011-04-25T17:08:00.002-07:00

Franklin Graham came down today on the side of Donald Trump. If you examine the life of his daddy the lickspittle preacher, you would see daddy was a racist, of the worst sort. Now, the junior Rat has come out and said Obama has the "Seed of Islam" in him. Franklin sure learned from Daddy.

My first experience with old Billy was when he was bilking my mother. My mother sent Billy money. One day I wrote Billy and complained about Billy bilking my mother. I made up a figure out of thin air about how much the Graham crooks were getting from my mother. The Billy Graham scammers wrote back and told me to the cent how much they had bilked from my mother. Billy had a typical preachers sucker list. Billy knew what strings to pull to get the most out of a sucker. Was it starving children, Africans, or Indians. Like so many crooked preachers most people never looked closely at what old Billy was up to. Check out the actual recordings between Graham and Richard Nixon and the anti Semitic crap they were both spewing. Franklin supporting Trump? Does Franklin not have a clue about the immoral Rat Trump is?

Donald Trump, The Litmus Test for Stupidity.

2011-04-23T06:01:00.003-07:00

Charles Blow has written such a good article on Donald Trump, in The New York Times today, I beg you to read it. Donald Trump in one human being represents all that is wrong with the Republican party and our country. Trump believes money is everything and anyone who doesn't worship it is a heathen. The fact that 46% of Republicans would vote for this hopeless idiot is so dismaying. Where did the minds of those people go? Do they read anything. It turns out the ex wife of The Donald testified in court that The Donald kept a book of Hitlers speeches beside his bed. The Donald apparently really liked the speech "The big lie".

The Stump Preachers.

2011-04-22T06:15:00.003-07:00

When Kadizzle was a kid and his head was filling with nonsense, he used to like to listen to the crooked stump preachers on the local radio station WWVA. The term stump preacher comes from the old days in the hills when some goof would stand on a stump and preach to the other goofs. WWVA was the second radio station in the nation. Late in the evening the radio station had an amusing array of stump preachers that whipped the idiots into a frenzy and robbed them blind. One of the all time favorites one of these crooked preacher uses was this " Wait a minute! Wait a minute! Stop Everything! Someone out there in radio land has just been inspired by God to send me a check for $100, come over and put you hand on the radio to get your blessing right now". You could just see dozens of simple minded idiots yelling to their grand children "Quick, get me the check book". Today we still have the crooked stump preachers like Pat Robertson, Billy Grahm, and so on. However, there is a new breed. Now we have Glenn Beck, Hanity, and a whole new bunch that have taken stump preaching to a new level. Then new breed makes up simple minded explanations and conspiracy theories for everything, then they sell you a book full of lies and propaganda. The idea of a stump preacher is to be a good story teller. A good story teller will get you scared or excited. Fox News perfected taking stump preaching out of the realm of religion and putting to use in politics. The birther nonsense is classic. 67% percent of Republican think Obama may not have been born in this country. As you can see there is a vast supply of idiots to be harvested by the stump preachers, and you can see how easy it is to whup the dingers into a frenzy.

Donald Trump caught in multiple lies, Don't watch this if you are a delusional right winger.

2011-04-20T14:29:00.003-07:00

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The Donald is a complete catastrophe. Someone tell me how 26% of Republicans could be so stupid as to consider voting for this complete dinger?

The Nasty Bitch the Republicans love.

2011-04-20T05:12:00.004-07:00

Ann Rand is like Donald Trump, if you let someone else tell you about them, they sound great, but if you look for yourself you will see what hopeless conniving pigs they are. Ann Rand is an atheist, there is nothing wrong with that, but do the silly fundamentalist know it, of course not. Just like right wingers don't really know Donald Trump. Trump like Newt has had more wives than a Mormon, but the right wing moralist who support them are clueless. Ann Rand is the hero of the selfish. Listen to what she says about herself. Most right wingers never look into the reality, they just follow the Fox buzz. So here she is watch the whole thing and you will see a bitch every bit as bad as Ann Coulter.