Will Change Come?

The NYT has an article with a subject Kadizzle has been thinking about. Will social change come from this virus foray?  If anything this mess has shown the inadequacies of our health care, and our economic system. If people suffer enough things change. That was the case after the depression.  The greed dogs more commonly known as the Republicans did a lot to reverse the progress that was made after world war two.  Now here we sit with one percent owning everything.  If people don't wake up we are well on our way to being a third world country run by a mentally ill dictator.  Wait we are there. Most crazy in this mess is we have enough for everyone  to live comfortably.  Why do people build pyramids when they need roads?  Look at the insanity of cars.  So much work goes into building cars when we need housing.  What in the hell is wrong when most families have three cars and a lot of families live in a shack?  That is a hard puzzle.

Smelling Rats

Cheech is not happy with the Kadizzles for the Dr. Shiva crap.  As Kadizzle listened to Dr. Shiva there were some rat fumes coming from the computer.  The ability to smell something fishy is not common among right wingers.  They listen to Trump every day and think he is honest. Imagine that. One thing Kadizzle wondered watching Dr. Shiva was where he stood on the political scale.  Some things that gave him away were his own books prominently facing the camera on the book shelf behind him.  Another clue was when he told how great he was very much like Trump.  The real cooker was when he got to the end of the program and asked for a campaign donation.  Rats cannot avoid being rats. Trump is a classic case.  Some people just cannot smell a rat.  That is how the Trump cult was formed.  You have to have no sense of smell for rats to still stand by Trump at this point, but it can be done.

Warning, warning, may have been duped

Kadizzle does not like to knowingly spread false information.  Cheech says this Dr. Shiva guy is not on the up and up.  Apparently he has produced some pretty bizarre stuff.  His presentation has some very interesting points, but it also has some things that make you wonder.  Winky must have mentioned this to Cheech, and Cheech warned us this may be fraudulent.  So be a good intellectualist and question all of the article.  As Kadizzle watched it he did sniff some strange BS.  This is not Fox News. Sometimes we admit our mistakes.

Maybe

https://www.facebook.com/va.shiva.ayyadurai/videos/547625379465700  This is a link to a Dr. Shiva. Now Kadizzle is not one for paranoid theories, but there is a lot of meat here.  Dr. Shiva has some very interesting insights into the virus problem.  Obviously the man is intelligent.  If you want a different view of the virus this is very interesting. He is not some way out right wing nut, give it a chance.

OK, back to reality.  The sun is out, but somehow the sun in North Dakota does not have the wattage to actually warm the place up. Kadizzle took the ebike for a ride yesterday. Passing near the grocery store Kadizzle saw three local characters. All three of them are notorious wandering gallywamples. It is like drawing three aces.  Gallywamples are people who are not quite normal. This can just be a simple case of stupidity, but usually there is some other flavoring added.  We all wander around in a cloud, but some clouds at least have lightening. That is the case with the cloud the gallywamples are in. Trump has an amazing ability to attract gallywamples. 

So here we go with another day in a luxury prison.  The Kadizzles are mainly imprisoned by the cold, the virus, and the normal bland life of a small town in the middle of nowhere.  In the old days when Kadizzle was an underground coal miner he had a realization. No one would be seven hundred feet underground in the dark if they had any sense.  That is sort of how it works here.  You would not be here unless you did not know better.  Sort of like being at a Trump rally. 

Morning has broken

Kadizzle has a mind that is infinity curious.  On solution to this are trade magazines.  Almost every profession has a magazine that they will send you free.  Sometimes to get one you have to make up a company name.  Kadizzle goes by Quinn Safety Consultants.  Anyway you can get trade journals on coal, electricity, and so many other things.  Somehow Kadizzle subscribed to a journal called " Tech Briefs".  This journal has been a favorite. It keeps Kadizzle up to date on the most current breakthroughs in technology.  The stuff that is coming down the road is hard to comprehend.  Battery technology is one thing that will be life changing.  There is so much going on that is so exciting it can not all be mentioned here.  Everything is going to change in amazing ways.  This morning Kadizzle read about a radio smaller than a grain of rice that can be implanted in just about anything relay data.  The spies of World War Two would have a blast with current technology. 3D printing has reached capabilities that are already unimaginable. The sensors for cars both inside and out will grow by magnitudes.  Technologist are almost able to duplicate the senses of bats for seeing without eyes. Solar power is also making leaps.  Now this seems unbelievable, and Kadizzle is going to have to read the article once more, but apparently you can generate power at night from a solar panel.  It seems absurd, but somehow the panel can produce electricity by emitting light. Like was written the Big K is going to have to read that one once more.  How about this a pressure sensor in your eye? If you want to find the next breakthrough in a stock market sweep get with this magazine.

Back to the real cold world of little town nowhere. The Kadizzles left AZ because it was getting too hot.  Well here we sit freezing our ass off.  Snow, imagine that sits out in the yard.  The only reason to be here in the winter is because you don't know any better.  Kadizzle has turned from a die hard to a seasoned snow bird.  Every year Winky gives Kadizzle grief for returning to the arctic. Better to live in a shoe box in he desert than a mansion in the arctic.

Trust in God and Trump

Supply and demand is the mantra of capitalism until it starts to work for poor people, then it is game off.  There is simply too much oil. That means the price goes down. That means working people pay less. That means oil companies suffer.  We cannot let that happen. President Trump who loves us all wants to prop up the price of oil. He does this for the poor guy driving to work, not for the oil companies. Just like the way he hides his taxes, there is a good reason, we just don’t understand it. Like religion we must take Trump on blind faith.  Although his policies seem to favor the rich we must accept that he is all knowing and really cares for us. None of us understand the mind of God, nor do we understand the mind of Trump, but both are our saviors and we must accept on faith what science has proven wrong. We now live in a world where truth and facts have been abandoned and all we have is faith.  Put your faith in Trump, God chose him for a reason even though we don’t know what that reason is. 

Everything an nothing

Here we sit. We have every convenience, we are warm, well fed, and lack nothing.  On the other hand we are in a social prison.  Unless we do some sort of hobby, or home remodeling we have nothing to do.  Winky and Kadizzle are outdoor people.  If we were in Arizona it would be time for an electric bike ride or Winky would be heading for the mountains.  A shut down Hazen is not too exciting.  In this modern era we are used to so much stimulus.  Now we are in jail.

The coffee was very good this morning. Now it is news time.  The media is doing a good job of attacking the rat in the White House.  Perhaps we will get the courage to rake the yard today.  We have no immunity to cold.

Ron Reagan: Not Afraid of Burning in Hell

Fell in a snore hole

Internet was so bad back in the desert we had to get up in the middle of the night to wake up.  It became a habit. So back in planet Arctic we slept for the first time. Sure enough wide awake at 1:30.  Winky was still tense from the ride home so Kadizzle tried to knead her back into softness.  It was 3:30 A.M. before we knew it.  With sunrise inevitable Kadizzle prayed he could fall into a snore hole.  Well he did and now the big body is trying to come alive.  Awaking from a snore hole is like coming out of surgery. 

Coffee, a full screen computer, and back at the old desk, that is life in the village.  A tour threw town showed how empty the town can be, but there is a trick, the town is this way virus or no virus.  Our home is not that large, but way larger than we really need.  After living in the shoe box all winter the luxury of multiple rooms is overwhelming.  Alexa is plugged in with her buddy mini google.  The wasteland of the internet is at our command.

Earth Module lands on planet boredom

Winky warned Kadizzle the boredom would rain down when the Earth Module returned to Hazen.  Well here we are.  It was kind of neat walking into the spotless home base.  The place was left spic and span since it is for sale.  This seems like a new luxury. Each of us took deluxe showers.  The big TV is fired up along with Alex, and the Google mini.  So now on command we can know the weather and what time it is.  What a long drive home.  Three days with the usual explosions of driving too fast or some other igniting comment.  Poor old John Prine died.  John Prine wrote out theme song ' In spite of ourselves".  It fits the Bickersons perfectly.  Our good friends in Alaska did their own version to honor both Prine and the Kadizzles.  Maybe Kadizzle will scoot on over to youtube and post it for you. Got it posted below. If you have not heard this song it is a must.

John Prine - In Spite of Ourselves - In Spite of Ourselves

Excited delerium

The poor fellow died of excited delirium.  That is what the coroner report said.  You can read it in the Bismarck Tribune.  Now if Winky every passes on surely that will be the cause.  I might not mind going that way myself.  Never knew there was such a cause of death, but it sounds like the perfect way to go.  It helps if the police stop you and beat you a little, but that is usually no problem. Almost once had it happen.  Up before the sun going to blast the Earth Module to Hazen today.  Back in the land of snow and ice.  Boredom will rain on the prairie as sure as the wind blows.  Kadizzle has been thinking a lot about another sailboat or maybe a motorcycle.  Here comes summer. 

An Ephiany

The sun is not up, be the Kadizzles decided to get up and start the world.  As Kadizzle awakened he had a realization. This virus has proven the whole world can take a two month vacation and life will go on.  We can get by on less.  Basically the virus has slowed down the economy.   The question is what is wrong with that? What if the world did take a vacation for two months.  Already the skies in India have cleared from pollution, the price of oil has dropped, and people have had an incredible amount of free time.  Do we need to constantly fly, shop, and consume.  The answer is clearly no.  This disease has shown the human race that we can relax.  Think of all the things that did not happen, yet we survived.  Think about the people who died. What if all the people who are now dead had two months vacation every year of their life.  It is possible the virus proved it.

Sitting in Wheatland, Wyoming

Here we sit after a long drive.  Traffic was a little less, but far more than one would expect.  A lot of stores were closed close to Denver, but farther North it appeared no one cared.  Train traffic is down, no airplanes in the sky, and truck traffic seems less.  The Denver Airport was amazing hardly a plane landing or taking off.  The western sky is free from contrails.  The air is certainly cleaner.  People seem to be out social distancing by walking around.  The wine has run out and this could be tragic.  Of course it is colder and tonight may be very cold.

John Prine

John Prine is dead and a lot of people will miss him.  No one was able to put life into a song better.  Kadizzle has always considered the greatest talent words and music that work together.  Three people stand out John Prine, Bob Dylan, and Leonard Cohen.  Republicans do not listen to these people. If you ask someone if they have heard of all three and they say no, then more than likely you are talking to a Republican.  John Prine understood people.  He had empathy.  Republicans don't.  Can you imagine Trump listening to John Prine? Trump only listens to Trump, he reads nothing, and takes advice from no one but the mafia guys.

Well here we sit the sun is rising in Las Vegas, New Mexico.  There is snow over there on the mountains near the rockies.  We can probably see thirty or forty miles in every direction.  We are about sixty miles East of Sante Fe.  Today we will go through Denver and we cannot stop to see the Snoocher Bear,  and Ticklepinch ( Erin, and Sylvie).   Poor old Sylvie was supposed to star in a play that has been cancelled.

Dry camping means the generator is running outside and we have television news.  Wink is making egg salad for sandwiches.  Long day ahead driving to Wheatland, Wyoming.  There we will stay in the little city park.  Gas prices are as low as we have seen them in years.  Somewhere along the way gas was $1.45.  The virus curve is flattening, if only my belly would.

The Launch

The Earth Module fired out of the chute early at about 7:15.   Not too much excitement until we were near Heber.  At Heber an old goat pulled out in front of us and just about caused us to T bone him.  Unharmed we went on.   No much traffic, even the trains have slowed down. Usually there is a constant stream of trains delivering stuffed animals from China, but only saw one Walmart junk train today.  Now we sit at some wildlife refuge in Las Vegas, New Mexico.  Not a bad spot.  We have good internet, and TV.  First time we have dry camped in a long time.  Of course the dam water pump needed to be nursed into action. Winky has some great Chicken Marabelo warming up.  Not a bad place to spend the night.  Incredible view, we may stay here again sometime. 

Listened to Trump give his press conference today.  No person with a function brain could help by conclude he is a lyining, mentally ill, idiot.   Had to laugh twice his nonsense was so silly.  Now he found a new scapegoat, the World Health Organization.  How can anylone listen to Trump and not conclude he is mentally ill.  Everything he does is the greatest and the best. If Trump farted it would be the best fart know to man. 

Last Day in Paradise

Tomorrow the Earth Module heads North.  Winky has given in to the idea we take the normal route.  First we will head to some casino near Cochiti Lake.  Our favorite campground is closed.  Next night who knows, then South Dakota at Angusta Lake.  Then we should make it home.  Tire pressures have been checked, the cycle has been loaded.  All the big jobs are done.  Ken and Rita may take off today for Spokane.  Cliff will stay for awhile and hike with the rattlesnakes along with Ken.  Another year of trail work wrapped up.

Kadizzle hopes to do what he can to get some Democrats elected in North Dakota.  The Republicans have raped the state and it is time for ordinary people to have a chance at a better life.  Both daughters say they have given up on North Dakota.   When they see what redneck attitudes their old school friends who stayed in North Dakota have they just don't want to live there.  Young Trumpers could make anyone puke.

Winky is jumping around doing some final prep for the big leave.  A big decision not to do laundry had already been made by the boar of directors. 

Motorcycle up the mountain

Kadizzle took a nice ride up into the mountains on the motorcycle.  Everything is so lush and green and the flowers have exploded.  Just this moment the sun came up. From the Earth Module the big fireball can be seen rising in the East.  The windows are like a clock. The sun is now coming up in a window that looks farther northeast on the horizon.

The gang saw a rattlesnake on the road yesterday.  The snakes are out and plentiful Kadizzle has been riding the ebike through the paths in the brush.  Someday he is bound to come across a big rattler he cannot avoid.  If running over the guy makes him bite, it could be nasty. May start wearing the snake guards on the bike ride.

Heading North, Maybe

Blasting Winky out of Arizona is a delicate process.  Winky does not want to leave, but it is getting hotter here.  Kadizzle is ready to bust out of AZ.  Winky is making a precise plan to get back to Dakota.  The wagon train will go East of Denver and stay away from populated areas.  Winky loves worrying about the virus.  Making the trip without contacting humans will be interesting.

The weather here in AZ has been perfect.  Yesterday we fixed a small segment of the Arizona Trail that had washed out.  Fall will probably be a disaster here.  The grasses, and shrubs have grown so much that when they dry out it will be the mother of all fire problems.

Officially we quit working for the season.  The Forest Service always gives us a gift for our work and this year they gave us a nice folding camp table.

Kadizzle encourages old goats to volunteer.  If all the old goats in the country would leave the coffee shop and contribute to the effort the country would improve.

The Jihad

After seven years of fighting the slummers up the street who have established a junk yard in their yard there might be a glimmer of hope.  The city auditor told Kadizzle yesterday that the city sent the slummers a notice to clean up the mess.  In a week or two Kadizzle will be hack in Hazen to fight the Jihad in person.  It will be a miracle if one piece of junk is gone.

Back here in Arizona Kadizzle may go with the crew today and repair a washed out trail.  It is hard to get up before sunrise and get going.  A little more coffee may do the trick.  The morning air is fresh and not laden with virus.

Part of the morning ritual is reading the New York Times.  The simple minded just will not give up.  An interesting article about right wing propaganda was featured in the NYT.  Facts just don't phase these people.

When you think it cannot get worse.  Trump had the MY PILLOW guy on with him.  This guy is a right wing nut.  KFYR right wing radio occasionally does interviews with this guy.  Of course he is a sponsor on the propaganda show.  Magic pillows, wow how stupid can the red hats get.