Kevin Cramer, and John Hoeven make sausage

The greed of the Republicans has triumphed.  Our constitution has been ground to shreds to provide tax cuts for the rich. We have entered the new era of dictatorship. Trump can do no wrong.  If Trump did it, it is right. Long live the King.

A Double hit

Kadizzle is furious about Trump becoming a dictator.  Today he was happy to see a double hit.  The Bismarck Tribune actually did what Kadizzle suggested to the editor.  The Tribune tried to pry an answer out of the two rats Cramer, and Hoeven about why we cannot have witnesses at the impeachment.  Of course the rats gave the party line answers.  The Tribune did run a front page story.  For icing on the cake the Tribune Published a letter from Kadizzle on the cover up.  So it is starting as a good day, but the rats will declare Trump to be a dictator today.

As we slip into a banana republic we may as well do the laundry and act like life is normal. Kadizzle has been banging out articles for the Globe newspaper about hiking the Tonto Basin trails.  Perhaps that task will start after coffee.  Please call your congressman today and insist they impeach the rat.

Morning

Few things are more refreshing than a trip to the executive suite.  Since we arise so early the stars are still out and shining with all their glory.  The air is brisk enough to force you into consciousness.  Our nice little refuge is just a short walk from the Earth Module.  The Earth module is equipped with a throne, but Winky insist we use the executive suite.  The facility is very nice.  It is made of first class material and has a his and hers library with two flush thrones.  The little shack out back even has solar lighting.  With the miracle of science the light come on at dark and go out at sunrise.  Nothing like a solar powered throne. 

Winky and the trail crew are going to hike up the mountain.  Kadizzle is going to stay back at the ranch and see if he can get some paperwork done.  Warning, don't ever put a scratch on a rental car.  When Kadizzle was in New Zealand the car company claimed Kadizzle made a little scratch on the bumper.  The car company wanted to charge 700 dollars for the problem.  Kadizzle believes someone may have put the scratch on the bumper while he had the car parked at a beach.  Nonetheless it has turned into an insane go around.  Supposedly the claim is covered by the credit card company.  The credit card company wants so much irrelevant information it is impossible to provide.  They want to know what brand underwear Kadizzle had on and if he was chewing gum.  Once you give them that information they write back and say how many pieces of gum were you chewing, and where did you put the gum wrapper.  Well that is the mess Kadizzle has to sort out today.

No witnesses.  How insane can Republican be?  Why not eliminate the judge and turn the lights out?  How stupid have we become that anyone would call something a hearing, a trial, or even a good witch hunt without witnesses.  The Salem Witch trials at least had witnesses. 

Thanks for tuning in.

To boost Kadizzle's ego he just checked the statistics.  So this is a special thank you to my Russian friends and readers,  all 899 of you, twice the number as Americans.  Some great writers have come out of Russia so it is a privilege that you read this crap from a simple minded American.  Kadizzle is not a Putin fan, but he does deserve credit for what he has done with Trump.  Russia has always shown it's skills at chess.  Putin has made Trump the perfect pawn.  Trump has driven the U.S. deep in debt.  Stupidity has spread like a virus in our country and your Russian hacks are doing great.  Moscow Mitch is another victory for you guys.  You guys know how to hack and get into things so get hold of Kadizzle.  It would be so nice to get the Russian view on what is going on here.  Kadizzle has found just about all foreign people know more about our country than we do.  You Ruskies can surely find my email.  Fire me a note and let me know your opinion.

Goats vs Tree

Five old goats went up Campaign Trail.  It would be goats vs a very large tree that fell across the trail.  First we had to walk through Peter Bigfoots place.  It was very sad to see what the fire and floods have done to his little nirvana.  Several of his building were burnt down and the amount of sand that has migrated into his stream is amazing.  Still his spirits don't seem to be dampened.  Instead of going into Peter Bigfoot just look him up on the Google. 

After passing through Bigfoots we soon came to the large tree five engineers all over seventy were going to move.  A very large tree fell across the trail and the plan was to use a hand operated winch to remove the tree.  It was not a simple process.  The tree caused a rock fall when it fell and it turned out to be a dangerous undertaking. The possibility of being involved in a rock slide and going into a steep ravine were part of the program.  The entire process was an exercise in physics.  Using levers, and pulleys we finally managed to move the tree.  It was about a three hour process.  In the end the old goats actually said they enjoyed the challenge.  The adventure was a nice change from the usual process.  The fire damage and water damage along the trail is very bad and it will take massive amounts of work to restore the trail.  The trail has probably been in use for centuries if not longer.  Many ancient Indian sites are in the area and no doubt it was in use by them.  Hopefully the spirits of the ancients were with us today. 

Way up the mountain.

Kadizzle hiked two miles up the mountain for an altitude gain of about 1400 feet.  It has been awhile since the old man has made the effort.  A little sore, but must have burnt off some chicken meat around the belly.  Sad to report did not bring any tablets down.  There were tablets and a burning bush.  Moses was standing there and Kadizzle asked him what the deal was.  Moses explained that Trump broke every one of the commandments on the tablets and there was no sense in bringing broken tablets down the mountain.  Kadizzle would testify as a witness to all this, but witnesses have gone out of style.

Now for the exciting news.  Kadizzle was just about back to the truck yesterday when he noticed pot shards on the trail. Kadizzle has hiked this trail many times, but somehow managed to miss the evidence on the trail.  Kadizzle traced the shards back to their origin and found an Indian site.  Whoa, he found a neat artifact.  It was something about the size of a fifty cent piece with a hole in the middle. One side was plain and the other side had markings.  It seemed like a coin,  or some sort of decoration.

The phone troll

OK this is straightforward.  Kadizzle is insane, he has lost his mind.  Kadizzle is totally obsessed with fighting the Republican scourge.  Winky would not let the big K wear his IMPEACH shirt to the biosphere yesterday.  Of course the battle has to go on.  As reported earlier Kadizzle has developed a phone technique to bug the Red Hats.  When Kadizzle suspects a Red Hat is close by he pretends to be on the phone.  With the Red Hat nearby Kadizzle loudly says some nasty things about Trump.  Yesterday Kadizzle tried the ploy at the biosphere.  The last two tries have resulted in complements and cheers.  People Kadizzle thought were Red Hats have turned out to be decent Americans.  Anyway it is fun, and will probably get Kadizzle shot or wounded, but such is life.  A good shot to the head is preferable to a long bout with cancer.  Everyone have a good day and do your part to save our country.

Up in the Morning

Five A.M, and we are up.  Winky wants to go up the Denton Trail today.  Kadizzle slept well and may go with the gang up the trail.  It would be tempting to veer off the trail and go to the big waterfall.  The waterfall on Sycamore Creek should be running well. 

On Facebook Kadizzle got into a little kerfuffle with some Red Hats.  The Red Hats want to honor the military, but are having a hard time honoring Colonel Vindman who blew the whistle on the Trumpster.   The Red Hats were upset about all the attention the dead basketball player was getting, but how people were ignoring the recent deaths of soldiers.   It seems that if you support soldiers, you would surely support them when they stand up against a rat like Trump.  No, the Red Hats want to call Vindman a trader because he did the honorable thing.  Strange world.

Back from the Biosphere

Were back from exploring the great experiment of the biosphere.  Perhaps you recall the experiment where people were going to stay inside an enclosed garden for two years to see if it could be self sustaining.  The experiment failed, but today experiments are being run there to see if we can sustain life on Earth.  The whole complex was much larger than Kadizzle had imagined.  Rather than write here about it you might check it out on the Google.

Our Earth is in peril. That is one thing the experiment has shown. The level of CO2 has gone up. We are close to the point where the ocean cannot tolerate the CO2 level.

The disturbing part is what our government is now doing under Trump to hasten our demise.  Materialism is bring us to the end.  Trump has so successfully played on greed.  We are senselessly burning up the ball of Earth we live on. 

Breaking News

Kadizzle just checked the statistics on the blog.  Thank you Russia for both me and Trump.  According to the tracking done by the service Kadizzle uses to write this blog there are twice the number of Russians following the Blog as Americans.  It was something like a 7 to 4 ratio.  Now, do you think Russia is interfering in our world?  Winky says first of all why would anyone read your blog, especially from Russia?  Winky says Russian trolls for sure.  Thanks for reading Russia.  You Russians did a great job blackmailing Trump.  If he gets high and pushes the button you have no one to blame but yourselfs. 

Here we go

Finished up the night with a campfire up at Cliff's.  Tomorrow we will go to the Biosphere in Oracle. That is the experiment where people lived inside a glass bubble for a year.  Yesterday we hiked up Windy Hill.  During the hike Ken and Kadizzle discussed the fossils we found everywhere. Two old fossils trying to figure out how all the rocks had fossils on them.  Seemed like some sort of barnacle had been on the rocks and then fossilized.  Must have been a sea or ocean here at one time.

Now our country is wallowing in a sea of stupidity. 

Semi sunny day here at the Earth module.  Kadizzle has been debating with himself about a couple of purchases. Should he buy a road motorcycle?  Should he get back into sailing with a sailboat?  On again off again.  Not owning things is a luxury.  You don't have to move, store, or service nothing.  This brings us to one of Kadizzle's favorite mantras " A man is rich in accordance with what he can afford to do without".  Nothing makes you richer than needing nothing.  Sadly it is that stage of life were you could buy your last car, shoes, you name it.  The big excitement is Cheech.  Cheech our little fashion design lady is going to pop us out a little boy in a week or two.  It has taken a long time for the women in this outfit to figure out how to get a grandchild with a stem.   Granpa will have a lot of fun with a little boy if he can live long enough. 

Go forth and prosper, enjoy life, and fight the good fight against the evil represented by the Republicans.

The Telephone Ploy

The commander of the universe, none other than Winke told Kadizzle to get to Globe, AZ and get the oil in the truck changed.  In a fit of fear Kadizzle obeyed the command.  Once in Globe Kadizzle found a quick lube place.  The little fat lady running the place also barked commands like Winkie.  So there sat fat old Kadizzle bored.  Then the thought entered his mind.  Kadizzle was in a room full of people waiting for oil changes.  Why not do the phone ploy.  Kadizzle pulled out his phone and pretended to talk as if there was someone on the phone.  Kadazzle said all the bad things he could think about Trump very loudly as if in a real conversation with someone on the phone.  Kadizzle thought he might stir up a right wing Hooplehead and have some fun.  Once Kadizzle ended the fake call the guy sitting right beside him said " I agree with everything you said".   This was strange, but fun.  The fellow turned out to be intelligent, well read, and not what Kadizzle was expecting.  We had a nice conversation about the problems of our country and the evil of The Republicans. 

Now a bit of a predicament occurred.  The tough lady who ran the place came into the waiting room with the cartridge that holds the oil filter for the Toyota.  She showed it to Kadizzle and said it was leaking and broken because someone had put it on too tight.  Seemed a bit strange, and Kadizzle sort of felt it might be a scam.  Mrs. Oil Change said she could replace it with a steel filter holder that was better.  The cost would be an additional $45.  Kadizzle suspected a rip off, but did not know what to do.  First it seemed like a good idea might be to have the holder put back on the truck and see if it actually leaked.  That could be complicated.  Finally Kadizzle caved in and bought the $45 steel replacement for the plastic original gizmo.   The lady said this was a common problem with Toyotas.   Driving away from the oil place Kadizzle suddenly had an epiphany.  What a coincidence, the lady just happened to have the part needed at her shop.  Now this seems strange.  One might think if they found a problem they would have to get the part from a parts store, but no they had it on hand.  The truck is a 2012 and has had a lot of oil changes.  Strange that this one it suddenly needed a new cartridge holder.  Maybe it was a rip off, maybe not.  The circumstances give it about a fifty fifty chance. 

Not bad for an old guy

Yesterday Kadizzle met a much younger guy in his forties with a dirt bike.  Today we rode together over some very difficult terrain.  About three quarters of the way through the ride the new acquaintance said " How old are you?".  Kadizzle explained that soon he would be 71.  The young fellow looked in semi amazement.  We had just conquered some of the hardest trails one could find.  Paul said " I hope I am in that good a shape when I am 70".   Kadizzle felt both proud and old.

After we stopped and had lunch Paul said he wanted one more ride.  Kadizzle took him way up on the mountain to one of the absolute worst and most difficult rides there is.  On the way to the really bad part Kadizzle debated with himself if he should try it.  The prospect of falling over and possibly damaging the cycle did not seem inviting.  Kadizzle thought about letting some air out of the rear tire for more traction.  When we finally got to the bottom of the mother of all hills Kadizzle's better brain became active.  Kadizzle suggest Paul go first.  Paul is a very good rider and will be in a race tomorrow.   Paul agreed to go first and come back to rescue Kadizzle if he fell.  Paul made it to the top.  Kadizzle saw how an expert struggled to get up the road he had conquered in the past and decided to forgo the stupidity.  Kadizzle signaled Paul to go on to the very top without him.  The last couple hundred yards are pure hell. It is steep and like riding over cement soccer balls.  Paul seemed to be taking a little too much time and Kadizzle began to think.  Kadizzle could not see Paul do the very top.  What if Paul crashed.  Kadizzle may not be able to get up there to help him.  After some time Paul did return and reported he had made it to the very top without going down.  Paul said no amature should ever attempt that ride.  Kadizzle has made it about three or four times. and crashed at least half of those tries.  In two crashes the clutch lever became broken.  Kadizzle decided to buy some fancy brush guards to stop that problem.   So Paul made it up and back, Kadizzle never made the attempt, nothing is broken and all is well.

Earlier in the ride we went down the backside of the mountain to Lake Apache.  Yesterday Kadizzle had suggested to Paul he attempt to ride up that way.  After Kadizzle thought about it, he realized it would not be a good idea.  Then Kadizzle suggested Paul ride down the back side.  Paul never made the trip yesterday, but we both did.  Since last year it turns out the road, which was already terrible became worse.  That special feeling came where you are conscious you are about to do something very stupid.  The very first part of the steep decline was basically a boulder hop.  Kadizzle could see that if he went down it would be impossible for him to get back up.  That meant the only way to go would be on down.  With a gust of stupidity Kadizzle made the decision to go down.   If there was another even worse spot farther down we would be stuck unable to go up or down.   Sure enough it got bad again, but there did appear to be a small track we might be able to take.  Paul went first .  Kadizzle took off next and the cycle fell over in the first ten feet.  The marble like sand slipped the motorcycle when Kadizzle touched the front brake.  It was embarrassing to execute a crash so easily.  Kadizzle yelled for Paul to help upright the cycle.  Before Paul walked back up Kadizzle managed to right the machine and made it down.   You know it is a nasty ride when you cannot make it going down hill.   At the end of the day we had a lot of good riding.  Kadizzle was glad to have someone to ride with.  Crashing in the outback alone is stupidity on steroids.  If you are laying under a motorcycle high on a mountain with no one around in a place you never should have gone you feel just like a Trump voter.  You did it to yourself.

The Indian Walk

Up early Kadizzle drove the trail crew to the top of the Four Peaks.  Their mission was to trim brush as they hiked down Oak Flat Trail.  On a crystal clear day it was Kadizzle's job to drive back down the mountain and pick them up at the bottom.  The Forest Service road crew was grading the mountain road and Kadizzle had to stop and chat them up a bit. Nice guys with a good job. Two guys who maintain the roads with a bulldozer, backhoe, and grader.

At last after some pleasant driving early in the day Kadizzle was at the bottom of Oak Flat.  First he had to take a short hike to check out the little waterfall that is running pretty good with the snow melt.  Next on the agenda was the Indian walk. What is an Indian walk?  Well you just wander around up and down the mountain and imagine you are there six hundred years ago.  What would they have looked at, and what did they think.  At one time Kadizzle and the Mrs found an Indian site in the areal.  Have not yet been able to locate it again.  Hiking up into a steep area Kadizzle decided he would try to make it over to the Oak Flat trail.  It did not take too long to find out the thick brush made it impossible.  Just wandering around aimlessly up and down the mountainside was pleasant.  No hurry, no mission, at my own pace.  At one point the Air Force guys went by chasing each other in jets, and a little later an Osprey helicopter went over.   The way the jets buzz by it is puzzling how they do not accidently obliterate some of the smaller craft putzing around.

Earlier in the day right after leaving the crew off on the top of the mountain Kadizzle took a short ride to the Four Peaks parking area.  An old white beat up pickup truck was there and people seemed to be nearby.  Kadizzle approached and said good morning.  With Kadizzle in the Forest Service Truck the two people seemed a little suspicious.  They seemed like they might be up to something.  However, the conversation went well and Kadizzle realized he had seen this couple last year in the same place. The guy looked way over weight and that is one reason Kadizzle remembered him.  The guy had been struggling to hike up the trail last year.  It turned out the guy and his female partner were going to hike up to an amethyst mine.  Supposedly the mine is one of the best for the gems their is.  The guy explained there was a cabin up there where they would stay and mine.  Kadizzle said he had no idea what the mineral looked like.  The guy sent his wife to the truck and she came back with some small stones.  There was the mineral in the stones.  Kadizzle tried to give the guy the stones back, but he said no keep them.  They are small, but it was a nice gesture.  He said a $60,000 dollar stone had been found there.  He admitted he was out of shape, but you have to give the guy credit that is no easy hike.  So we had a very good day and everyone enjoyed the hiking.  Almost forgot one other encounter.   Kadizzle got back to the truck before anyone else and ran into a guy on a dirt motorcycle.  It was a very nice bike and a little discussion ensued.  Kadizzle recommend a few places to rid to the guy and suggested we might ride together in the morning.  Kadizzle convinced the younger guy to ride up a very steep trail.  The guy looked fit and capable, but as Kadizzle thought about it he might be sending the guy on a dangerous mission.  Kadizzle modified the trip so the guy would do the dangerous part going down instead of up.  In the morning Kadizzle will check to see how the ride went.  Winky is tired and already in bed reading at seven twenty. 

The impeachment is such a sham it is getting hard to listen to.  The evidence is overwhelming. What we need is God to show up.  God should simply say  " I chose this idiot, he is guilty and I am sorry for the whole thing".   Of course the Republicans would shout fake news Trump is innocent.  However, it might help the Democrats win a few votes.

Back at the Earth Module

Back in the peaceful desert, away from the insane border with Mexico.  How nice to sleep in clean air, silence, and uncrowded mountains.  Americans when they get old only want one thing, to be warm.  They don't care if you stack them up like cordwood, just warm.  People work their whole damn life and in the end they get to sit somewhere in a box warm.  Drive around the southwest and look at the concentration camps for old people.  Row upon row of old people in boxes.  Meanwhile empty yachts, and second homes dot the landscape.  What about quality of life?  No other country ignores humans like the United States.  Every other country thinks about healthcare for everyone,  air quality, or vacation for young people.  Not the gold old U.S.   We want to work people until they drop and then put them in a box. 

So we are up early and it looks like a hike in the mountains.  Ken and Rita are back from California, and the crew is ready to go. 

Fun with Gambit

If you have been following this story this morning, Kadizzle mentioned the phone gambit earlier.  Wellk, Shanika wanted some breakfast so Kadizzle went down to the little breakfast room at the hotel. Before he walked in he pretended like he was talking on the phone.  In the breakfast room Kadizzle loudly said into the phone " Be sure and call those crooked senators who are going along with the Trump cover up".   It worked instantly.  Some simple minded goat started pointing to a pin on his coat.  Kadizzle was puzzled and could not make out what the pin was.   What is it?  It turned out to be an American flag.  The goat said That is why we are great, because Trump made us great.  Kadizzle gave the man a loud rant about what a crook Trump was and mentioned that sure America is great when you have to have three jobs to stay alive.  The goat quickly exited.  Trump toys with the simple minded, why can't Kadizzle.  So if you find out Kadizzle has been shot by a right wing goat don't be surprised.

Who Cares?

It is early.  Kadizzle is sitting in one of those pathetic little hotel breakfast rooms.  The room is full of old goats like Kadizzle.  In the background CNN is playing some impeachment crap.  The old goats are half asleep and oblivious.  Kadizzle is tempted to just say at random to an old goat person " What a trial no witnesses".   Once in a rat hotel in West Virginia Kadizzle did something like this and we had a wild political battle on our hands.  These little rat breakfast rooms always have acoustics that amplify everything,  Boing, just got an idea.   Kadizzle could pretend to make a phone call.  Speaking into the phone he could loudly say bad stuff about the trial.  Hmmm,  this would surely fire up the goats. 

Yesterday Kadizzle was in this room with the hotel clerk.  Kadizzle was explaining to her how she gets ripped off by the Republicans.  An old goat nearby heard the conversation, and we were off to the races.  The goat used to work for the railroad and explained how rich guys gave him jobs.  Yep the plantation owners were nice guys that gave black people jobs and housing.  Strangely after talking to the goat for awhile the goat saw the other side of the story.  Goats in general did pretty well. Sadly our children will not have it as good as we did.  This is a prediction.

OK,  Kadizzle just tried to stir up the goats.  A young girl is filling the coffee.  Kadizzle said loudly to her " Did you ever see a trial with no witnesses?".   " It is sad what the Republicans are doing to you young people".   The goats did not stir.   Don 't have my phone, so I cannot try the phone gambit.  May try it later.  The fog is so thick outside.  It matches the fog in the brains of the Republicans.  How can they get away with such a sham.  Imagine being in a house on fire and no one notices the place is burning down around them. 

Not from this planet

Kadizzle has always suspected he is on the wrong planet, but the more he travels, the more he feels he has come to the wrong place.  The insane waste of resources, and the massive self induced stupidity has no explanation. How could you have so much and waste it so effectively? Just back from across the border.  People over there selling and making absolute crap. People who should be making roads and houses are making colorful fribles.  Total insanity.  Back here in the U.S. we allow one percent of the people to walk off with everything and act like nothing is wrong.  Kadizzle is not from this planet, wants no part of this insanity.  Women with little children begging for money while the rich piss away money on tummy tucks.  You have to be kidding.  We cannot piss away the oil, the gas, the planet fast enough.  Fifty million cars and trucks running around in circles delivering water.  Look in the grocery store at flavored water on the shelves.  Insanity.  Moving around flavored water. 

Another Planet

We just got back from another planet. Planet Mexico is about ten minutes from here.  Kadiizzle gave away a lot of money today. How can you resist giving beautiful Mexican children money?  They need the shit, Kadizzle has plenty.  What  a strange planet Mexico is.  Everyone is selling fribbles, worthless shit to stay alive. Total insanity is all you can feel when you cross the border into the land of dental works, glasses, and cheap drugs.  What in the hell is going on?  Do you need some nonsensical Mexican crap, some glasses or your teeth fixed?  Shanika and Kadizzle just got back from Mexico.. We ate and payed to hear the music we wanted.  We drank margaritas and Shanika said his was worse than mule piss.  Anyway we are back in A mer ric ca.  Half buzzed and about to get up to date on impeaching the rat.

Yes, but the stock market

Here we sit.  Kadizzle and Shanika in the town of Yuma.  Thousands of upon thousands of people living rat style.  The great American retirement.  As long as you are warm hell is not that bad.  At this little sorrowful hotel Kadizzle engaged a Canadian in conversation. The old guy was smoking a cigar in front of his room.  Kadizzle thought he would test the political mind set of they guy since he was from Canada.  What do you think of the president Kadizzle asked.  Kadizzle pointed to his head to indicate Trump is nuts.  The guys said " He is not very presidential, but look at the stock market".  That sums it up.  What if six million Jews get killed?  No problem in Germany if the markets were doing well. 

Drive through Yuma and ask exactly who benefits from the stock market.  You can see thousands scraping by on social security only hoping to be warm.  Last night Kadizzle read about China in the NYT.  By every measure we are falling behind most modern countries, but the stock market is doing well even though the bridges are falling down.