What is a Dinger

A word of description Kadizzle cannot resist is dinger. Well, what is a dinger? The use of the word comes from old vaudeville shows. When a performer was terrible or performing badly someone would ring a bell. The performer would have to leave the stage. Maybe a stage hook would be used. In Payson we have a club full of dingers. It is called the Tea Party. 

We The People.

 You see the words in a lot of places " We the people". Sadly it has never happened, any black or poor person can tell you that. The real people who own and run the government are the billionaire class. The tax rate on the rich has gone down by a staggering amount. Now the top few people have most of the wealth. Voting with money does not represent "We the people".

Start another week

 Here we go, start another week. The weather in Payson has been excellent. Winky was up at the Grand Canyon trying to do some volunteer work, but Cliff got sick and that fell apart so Winky is coming home early. The gathering under the Willow tree in Green Valley Park has commenced. Almost every evening a group sits under the Willow tree and shoots the breeze waiting for the sun to go down. Come join the group. The conversation varies from politics to any subject you want. 

Kadizzle has tried to separate his political rants from just every day BS. If you want todays political rant about the worthless Eli Crane go over to the other blog. https://naftaoh.blogspot.com/

Have a nice ebike ride

Up very early Kadizzle and Winky headed to Fort McDowell to bike. The county part has excellent bike trails and with our new ebikes it was a pleasure to go 21 miles gliding through the desert. Out trips there have enabled us to meet new people enjoying the exercise. The trails suit old goats very well. Kadizzle has been promoting trails for the older crowd in Payson. Get on board. 

Two factions

Payson has two major factions. One faction planned poorly for retirement, and the other faction planned well. Those who planned want progress and a clean prosperous town. Those who are squeaking by just want to be comfortable until they die. The Tea Party and Trump represent the faction living on the edge with nothing by a social security check. The Tea Party faction just wants to keep the cost of getting to the graveyard low. Those who planned want to enjoy the trip to the graveyard with a nice town full of amenities.  Progressives are doing just that trying to make progress. The conservative faction just wants a good fantasy that justifies their existence. Fortunately the prosperous are in the majority. Sadly the vocal people on the edge of poverty are steering the ship. It is time for the majority to take control.

No encomprehende

 Milo and Kadizzle have been working together. Milo speaks little English. It seems to be a lesson in how people of different tribes used to communicate. The phone is a savior translating. The phone is not perfect and sometimes makes some odd mistakes, but we get the job done. 

Simple minded Hoopleheads

Rolling Coal on Peaceful Protesters: Weakness Disguised as Toughness

There is a certain kind of man who believes owning a lifted pickup truck gives him authority over everyone else. He rumbles down Highway 87, chest puffed out, certain that horsepower is the same thing as character. Then he sees peaceful protesters exercising their constitutional rights, and suddenly he has found his mission: stomp the accelerator, belch black diesel smoke, and imagine he has struck a blow for freedom.

What he has really done is advertise insecurity.

“Rolling coal” on peaceful protesters is not courage. It is not patriotism. It is not strength. It is a childish tantrum performed through an exhaust pipe. When someone uses a machine to intimidate people standing with signs, he is not defending America—he is mocking the very freedoms he claims to support.

Peaceful protest is woven into the history of this country. Workers marched for fair wages. Women marched for the right to vote. Civil rights leaders marched for equality. Veterans have marched for justice. Protest is as American as the flag itself. Trying to smother that tradition under a cloud of diesel smoke is an insult to every generation that fought for liberty.

The irony is hard to miss. Many of these same men complain endlessly about “respect,” “law and order,” and “free speech”—until someone they disagree with speaks. Then respect disappears, law becomes harassment, and free speech becomes something to be choked out with pollution.

There is also something deeply pathetic about mistaking noise for power. Real strength is debating ideas. Real confidence is hearing opposing views without losing control. Real masculinity is self-command, not childish rage. Anyone can mash a gas pedal. It takes maturity to act like an adult.

Communities deserve better than grown men using public roads as stages for petty political theater. Highway 87 should be for travel, not for bullying displays from people who confuse aggression with principle.

If your best answer to peaceful protesters is a cloud of black smoke, then the protesters are not the ones who look foolish.