Ronnie Drew And Damien Dempsey - Rainy Night In Soho

Give it a listen. Some of the words are terrific. A great song to start the morning. 

Moon over the mountains

Out the huge window in the bedroom the moon is crystal clear hanging right over the mountains to the North west.  In the East the sun is crawling up from behind the mountains. Payson is in sort of a bowl of mountains. Kadizzle now has hearing aids and the coffee perking is a new sensation. Being able to hear is generally a blessing except when Mrs Kadizzle blast at old Kadizzle.

Hopefully the tire for the ebike will come today. Kadizzle prefers biking to walking by a wide margin. Finally the worker bees are roofing the last house in our little circle. When it is done no more construction mess. 

Almost forgot the big news. Kadizzle put to work his new employee yesterday. Kadizzle was out hunting golf balls and had a brilliant idea after he drove by the bum encampment. Why not hire a bum to sell the golf balls? There she was sitting in her dilapidated little van. Beside the van was some weird tent she constructed. Kadizzle asked Mrs Bumore if she wanted to sell golf balls for him. Bumore seemed cheerful and more peppy than your usual Bumlet. In no time she said she would. Kadizzle explained the plan that she would sit on the road by a golf green and peddle the golf balls. Kadizzle went home and got her about two hundred golf balls. 

After an hour or two Kadizzle went to check on sales. Mrs Bumore had dressed herself nicely, and all things considered she was not that bad looking. She was young to be in the bum business. As Kadizzle approached she excitedly said she had already sold $27 worth of golf balls, which surprised Kadizzle. She picked out a good spot to sit. Bumore told Kadizzle how she packaged the golf balls in special little bags. Bumore said she could get the bags at the Dollar Store for a dollar. No, no, Kadizzle warned don't spend any money on packaging. We are in this to make money. 

The second time Kadizzle went to check on Bumore she was nowhere to be seen. The money must have set her bum instinct aflame. Today Kadizzle will see if she is at her post. 

People are bums for a reason. The inability to be consistent is one reason bums become bums. The water plant is down by the bum encampment. At the water plant an employee was digging up a drainage ditch by the golf course stream. He hit a seam of golf balls and it was like mining gold. Kadizzle sifted through the dirt and got a dozen balls for Bumore to sell. 

 

A dress rehearsal for Kadizzle's funeral

Had to call an old friend Stroupini to discuss a sailor Kadizzle just encountered. Used to sail with Stroupini on his Pearson 26. Kadizzle mentioned the fact he worked cleaning a cemetery yesterday. Somehow Kadizzle got on the subject of " being drawn up".  Kadizzle always refers to dying as being drawn up. Drawn up to heaven that is. Some people like the term passing, but for sailors drawn up seems more appropriate. 

Stroupini always has unique ideas, and see the world in his own way, which is wonderful. Stroupini said maybe at Kadizzle's funeral they could sing a song about Kadizzle being " Drawn up". It sounded like a great idea and Kadizzle did not want to miss the song. That is where Stroupini's genius struck. Why not have a dress rehearsal for Kadizzle's funeral. A great ideal, then Kadizzle could enjoy the fun. Stoupini among his other talents is a great singer, not to mention squeeze box player. In fact if you research Kadizzle Youtube videos you can see Stroupini play the squeeze box in Berthold Bay. 

Kadizzle wondered how the dress rehersal would go because no one would want to say anything good about Kadizzle while he was still alive at the dress rehearsal. Again Stroupini showed his acumen, he suggested it be like a roast. Excellent, people could make one final jab at old Kadizzle. 

Everyone should have a dress rehearsal for their funeral. It may be an oncoming tradition.  Kadizzle has Stroupini primed to sing " The Parting Glass" at the real funeral if there is one. Now please watch the video below so you know the words to the " Parting Glass". This is the most important part, the bag pipers. If you will kindly watch the video you will get to see the pipers march into the hall. Kadizzle has left instructions in his will to have the pipers. It will be the best time you ever saw someone get " Drawn Up".

Stoupini pointed out that anchors are drawn up. Since Kadizzle has been both an anchor to Mrs. Kadizzle, and a sailor it is perfect. 

The High Kings - Parting Glass

A Hard lesson to learn.

A guy showed up to do some work. He looked kinda like a bum walker. This made Kadizzle think about the danger of judging people by their costume. Back in the mining days we ran scrapers, or large earth movers, what ever you want to call them. All the guys running the scrapers appeared like regular heavy equipment operators. One day Kadizzle found out to his amazement one of the scraper operators was an opera singer. You never know who you are talking to. A couple years ago we met Lady Long Rider. The woman was dressed like a female cowboy in home made clothes. She rode her horsed across the United States and back. Turned out she was a ballet dancer in a famous company.  On the other hand Kadizzle has met some people he thought had some sense, they turned out to be idiots. You never know. 

Now, an hour later. The fellow Kadizzle had pegged for a bum walker turned out to be a sailor. He went from Alaska to Mexico to Hawaii on a Pearson 26. That is a boat Kadizzle has sailed. Most interesting was he went through the inner passage from Alaska. Recently we have watched two shows on a race through there. 

In A Town This Size

John Prine is a master of words. This video is dedicated to my friends the Hoopleheads. " How the rumors do fly".  The Hooples have cooked up some doozy rumors about Kadizzle. Dearest Hooples listen to this song carefully and learn a little something about rumors. 

Self Defeating Hoopleheads

 Wendy Rodgers came to Hoopleville and told the traditional Republican lies. It worked, now she is in the legislature making life miserable for the very people who voted for her. Kadizzle wobbled out onto the driveway early this morning to get the Payson Roundup. The newspaper had an article about good old Wendy trying to make sure wages stay low for the Hooples. Wendy is fighting the minimum wage. Ronald Reagan is a hero of the Hoopleheads. Rony started the idea that you could prosper by giving the rich more. Since Ronald Reagan took office real wages adjusted for inflation have declined by 12%.  What a great deal, give the rich money and make yourself poor. 

Now the Republicans are going after social security. Social Security is the blood that runs through the veins of the Hoopleheads. Drive about the local towns and observe the run down trailers, the properties in disrepair, and there you have a busted flat Hooplehead living on social security. The Payson Roundup also said an effort is underway to stop pan handling. The Hooples are doing their best to run themselves into the ground, all  in the religion of trickle down economics. 

Those in the midst of the fog have another great idea, fund the government with sales tax. It is all about protecting the rich from taxes. Already 400 families have as much wealth as the rest of the country combined. The IRS could collect 900 billion if the IRS had the staff to do it, but the Hooples say if you check to see if the rich are paying their share that is an invasion of the rich man's privacy. 

Selling Hoopleheads false hope is a gold mine. Remember old Make America Great Again? His entire game was baffling the Hooples with bullshit. 

Now the Republicans who thirst for a good show are going to hold the budget hostage. As the Republicans try to blackmail with the budget they cannot decide what the ransom should be. Republicans claim they want to cut spending.  Unfortunately you cannot undo what you did with the credit card. Walmart will not take back half empty peanut butter jars. Who tripled the deficit? None other than Trumpty Dumpty. Who elected Trump? You got it, the Hooples. So now  the Hooples don't want to pay for the tax cuts Trumpty Dumpty gave the rich. When the government comes to a halt and the blackmail scheme backfires who will suffer? You got it the Hooples. 

What are the clowns doing to prevent this mess? The clowns in their MAGA hats are starting investigations. All this budget nonsense can be cleared up if only we know what is on Hunter Biden's laptop. Republicans are putting up the big tent. Come on in Hoopleheads, hear us lie, distort, point the finger, and give the rich some more money. 

No matter how many times a Hooplehead goes to the magic show he still believes the hat is full of rabbits and the woman is sawed in half. 

Back to the Payson Roundup. In another article the statistics are there. What statistics? The statistics show the community has more high school dropouts, fewer college educated people, and more drug problems. Now the good news, we have more Republicans. 

What is the leading cause of people becoming Republicans? Cults, simply cults. The Trump cult was the most successful ever. They invaded the Capitol. Want to join a cult? A simple way to join used to be just show up at the Tea Party, but it is not that simple anymore. Now the Tea Party is going to institute a purity test. Frank, and Jeff B. don't like the Kadizzle blog, so they decided Kadizzle cannot come to the cult meetings. In fact some cult members said they would not attend the prayer meetings if the heretics were not kept out. 

What do you do? Cook up a new pledge any new member must take.

Here is the pledge they are considering

" In the name of Ronald Reagan, and Donald Trump I hereby swear to believe any lie any Republican tells me. I will not seek the truth or spread the truth inside or outside of cult meetings. I will do my best to avoid false prophets like NBC, ABC, NPR, NYT, or any other media that goes against the Fox holiness. If I do not follow the guidelines of the cult I promise to turn in my gun, my MAGA hat, and give up on Republican Jesus. "

Now for the clincher. Trump is a proven loser, as were Kari Lake and numerous other liars. So what are the Hooples going to do? You guessed it they will get back on the Trump train and head to the train wreck. This all seems amazing, but if you want to see it in action go out to the casino and watch the Hooples pump their social security checks into the slot machines. According to the New Yorker magazine each slot machine takes in $125,000 per year. Do the math the local Hooples are pumping millions into gambling. These same Hooples live in a town that needs a lot, and could do a lot with millions, but the false hope of spinning reels is too much for the delusional to resist. Work all week then give your money away, if not to the rich, then the Apaches. The good news is the Indians are just getting revenge for what the historical Hooples stole from them. 

They Built the Dam

Spent yesterday cleaning up the graveyard at Roosevelt, on Lake Roosevelt. The graveyard was full of the men who died and were killed working on the dam. One grave struck me, it was a boy 13. In the afternoon the woman who has been working to restore the graveyard showed up. She told me an interesting story about the boy. Apparently he drank contaminated water. His father was buried beside him. 

One day when she was working last year relatives showed up and told the story how they both died. The dam was completed about 1914 and at the time it was the largest man made lake in the world. In 1990 the height of the dam was raised and the Forest Service got 40 million dollars for recreation. It was an amazing project with 1300 camp sites and endless amenities. Sadly the people never showed up from Phoenix to use it and it is now being dismantled in some parts. The Kadizzles have traveled much of the United States and never have we see anything that compares. So sad to see millions spent on the wall with Mexico while things like this are neglected. 

The Republican governor of Arizona wanted to tickle the Hoopleheads so he had shipping containers stacked along the border, an incredible waste of money that made one of his donors rich. Now the same donor will be paid millions to get rid of the mess. The Hooples love this type of silly drama that accomplishes nothing. 

Today Kadizzle used the weed Wacker to clear some of the campground trails. On the way down to the lake the ebike fell off the truck. Some damage, but repairable. Kadizzle got distracted and forgot to fasten down one fastener. 

Tucker Carlson

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

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

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

6:05

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

Goat Feed

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

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

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

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

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

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

The tale of the devious Hoopleheads

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Robbing the Hoopleheads

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

Only 26 Russians reading Kadizzled

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

Bullitin for the Hoopleheads

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

Ebike Warriors

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

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

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

Evolution of the Klan

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

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

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

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

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

The childhood whore house.

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

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

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

Waiting for the rule change

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

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

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

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

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

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

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