In the morning

Woke up early and could not sleep, so I took pictures of the yard.

Never have so few, taken so much from so many for so long

That is my bumper sticker. The bumper sticker sums up the philosophy of the Republican party so well. Many times I have parked my truck in a large parking lot and watched puzzled people try to figure it out. Some have even asked. It is not unusual to see someone bend their head sideways and look at it as it that would help. So few words sum up the American delima so well.

Cheech, Chong, and Tatoo

Now that Lord Kadizzle is back in the saddle in the construction business it is time to tell some construction stories. One thing that lightens up the work on a construction job is the radio banter. Someone is always trying to say something in an amusing way for the benefit of the worker bees. Our company has two laborers that look like classic leftovers from the sixties. Both of them must be in their fifties. Normally they work together as a crew. It was a good belly laugh when the foreman referenced them as Cheech and Chong. Another one that kept me laughing was Tatoo. You must remember that old TV program that has the little Asian guy they call Tatoo. Another laborer looks just like him and of course has earned that nick name. Hopefully if Lord Kadizzle gets assigned a name it will not be too bad. One guy at the mine took great pleasure in calling me Turtle Tits.

Help Wanted: Ugly Nurse

Construction company desires ugly nurse to take care of employees at job site. Poor hygiene a plus. Nurse must be able to repel those that are not really hurt. Body mass a plus.

Out at the job site the other day another safety specialist like Lord Kadizzle came up to him and asked Lord Kadizzle if he knew of any ugly nurses looking for work. You got to be kidding I said to Jack. No I am serious Jack replied. Jack went on to tell me that if a construction nurse was decent looking everyone would get minor injuries just to see the nurse, so the custom is to hire ugly nurses.

Dowd Slams Karl Rove in NYT, read it.

The Granny Flip

Like every good hillbilly, my grandmother was a tough lady. Sometimes she would get fired up, take a stiff drink and do a flip. In honor of my grandmother I do a flip off the back of my boat every summer on the solstice. The earth may stand straight up, but I like to help get it spun back the right way.

Why not North Dakota?

Since Lord Kadizzle has been working with a lot of out of state people in the construction business he has been surprised how many of them really like North Dakota. Walking on the shore of the lake last weekend it provoked the thought " Why doesn't this state promote itself better?". Many of the workers are considering moving here. Part of the answer may be that many of the North Dakotans have never even seen their own state. I know it took us years to visit ever part of the state. We lived here thirty years before we ever went to the only pine forest in the state.

The War nobody noticed

Good article in the NYT today about Bush's little adventure in Iraq. For the first time in history our country has put a war on our credit card and we are going to hand it to our children.

Summer Sailstice

The fleet came together at Berthold Bay for a wonderful weekend. A few brave souls went in the water, and others hiked the countryside. Good winds up and back.

Stolen Rocks found in Stanton Pyramid

Featured above is a prime suspect in the theft of rocks from our yard. He goes by the name of Ray the rock jock. Since he has been spotted in the Dakota's Mt Rushmore has been on high alert.

Up and up

Every day we pour more and more concrete. There seems to be no end of the foundations that need to be poured. The rate rebar can be placed and concrete poured is astounding. The barometer on site it the chimney. The chimney is now half way up. That is three hundred feet. Another three hundred and they will be done. The steel contractor is on site and the first building will soon begin to rise on the foundation our company built.

The diagram above may give you some idea of how they pour the chimney without stopping. The chimney is going up at about one inch an hour.

Rock Thieves

Years ago when Lord Kadizzle worked at the coal mine he remembers someone calling him on the mine radio. The urgent call said someone was stealing rocks on the west end of the mine. The story seemed to ridiculous to be true. However, there was some guy with a wheelbarrow removing rocks. Now this the equivalent of someone steeling weeds out of you lawn. Rocks are not considered a good thing in North Dakota. Farmers go to great lengths to get rid of them, so a rock thief would be a precious commodity.

Now, all of a sudden the market for rocks has matured. The Commander hired some nit wit to landscape the yard. The nit wit had one of his helpers haul a truck load of rock from 150 miles away. Now this is like shipping snow to Eskimos. Everywhere there are piles of field stones farmers have been fighting for years. Rocks are now being sold. This is the equivalent of selling bottled water. Americans would pay for air if you told them it was flavored.

There is hope

Lord Kadizzle has been pleasantly surprised by some of the things he has been hearing from his right wing friends. People are fed up with Bush, and it looks like change may be in the wind. Again yesterday Lord Kadizzle had to tell a Republican he will be looking for a star in the East. Within a week two hard cores have said they are getting pretty close to choosing Obama. Remarkable. Lord Kadizzle had a long conversation with a conservative yesterday and was dumbfounded, when his friend said the magic words, "We need change". Only the very dullust, and dumbest, have not had the curtian raised. There is hope. Your reading assingment today is the NYT

Sea trials a questionable success

After a good conversation with an old sailing friend along with some very good French sausage, cheese and wine, the good ship set out to sea. Lord Kadizzle had no crew, so he was a bit apprehensive. Knowing the treacherous channel out to the main lake his lordship made it a point to watch the depth meter carefully. As the sea gods would have it the minute his eyes were diverted from the depth meter the good ship went from fifty feet of water to hard aground. The usual procedures produced no results. In frustration another ship was hail. His lordship instructed the other captain to make a pass in front of the good ship Sovereign at which point he tossed them a rope. The goal was to spin the Sovereign around and back into deep water. However, this was not to be. The rescue ship went aground on the same reef. After some struggling both boats managed to free themselves. It seems to be a first sail day tradition to go aground. For the past several years it has managed to happen. Last year the boat was aground right after it came off the trailer. In the end it was a good sail the weather cleared up and the wind was about perfect, so all is well that ends well.

California has been calling

In the past couple of weeks Lord Kadizzle has had a couple calls from California about sailing in North Dakota. When people search sailing and North Dakota, Lord Kadizzle is about all they get. Today the magazine Latitude 38 called. They had someone signed up in every state but North Dakota to participate in The Summer Solstice Sail, so they called me and asked me to sign up. Anyone who wants to join me on the longest day of the year to sail the lake is welcome. Check out their website http://www.summersailstice.com/

Last week someone from the same area called and wanted to know how his boat could be launched on the lake. Lord Kadizzle is the unofficial sailing ambassador for Lake Sakakawea, and the self proclaimed admiral of the North Dakota Navy.

Megan drops the temperature in New York

Megan was not happy with her main squeeze when he left her without the air conditioner working. The simple solution seemed to be asking the neighbor to install the air conditioner in the window three stories above the streets of New York. The neighbor came over and put the air conditioner in the window, but apparently he was under the influence of buzzweed. After the neighbor returned to his apartment to continue watching a movie Megan jiggled the air conditioner while on the phone to the neighbors girlfriend. Aforementioned air condition began its journey to the pavement below. Quick thinking Megan grabbed the cord before the unit completely left with both hands. Although the quick stop did burn her hands on the cord she had the air conditioner by the tail. Luckily she also managed to keep the phone up to her ear. She instructed the neighbor to quickly send Mr. Lefthanded cigarette back to help pull in the catch of the day. The two nittus wittus managed the feat, and the impaired neighbor rewired the unit. Megan is now cool, buzzweed is watching his movie, and life in New York is more comfortable now that the temperature has dropped, but not all the way to the pavement.

Looking for a picture for this blog, Lord Kadizzle came across the following story, which he hopes Megan reads: Yesterday morning, a 51 year old woman was hit by an air conditioner unit that fell out an East 104th Street window. The Post reports Lynda Kneish had been walking on the sidewalk when the AC tumbled from the third floor, and her "right leg was crushed, the bone shattered. She also suffered broken ribs, a broken pelvis, fractured vertebrae, and internal bleeding." Yikes. Kneish's husband, who was waiting for a friend nearby, said, "I came around and saw the police. I asked them what happened and then I saw my wife lying on the floor." It turns out maintenance men had been working on the AC, and it also turns out the Kneishes are "contemplating legal action." You know, if you're working on the AC unit, especially window units, isn't the number one thing to do is make sure it's totally secure?

Perhaps the Big Launch

Poor old Lord Kadizzle has been laid low by some bad food or something. For the first time in years food had come out the same place it went in, however today his lordship is feeling better and the plan is to rig the good ship Sovereign and launch. If The Commander can manage to get her petuit out of bed the whole process could proceed. A sailboat is like the difference between a car and a horse. You can't just get on a sailboat and go. You have to hoist the sails, and work the wind. About half the time with a sailboat mother nature will not let you make a direct approach to where you want to go, but that is what sailing is about. Sailing is a puzzle. When you sail, you don't just point the boat where you want to go. Sailing means you stratigize with mother nature and see how you can win. Mother nature has two winning hands, heavy wind, and no wind. If all goes well maybe we can unfurl the head sail, and hoist the main today.

The Saudi Arabia of Stupidity

The United States is to stupidity what Saudi Arabia is to oil. If we could export stupidity, our problems would be solved. Lord Kadizzle is perpetually amazed at people who are walking around breathing air, and are completely clueless about life on this planet. A conversation with a young right winger today was a classic. He asked if McCain was the "Republican". Is the Pope Catholic? The next time you are out and about engage someone in a conversation about the simplest topic, and find out for yourself what a mess we are in. A couple of weeks ago Lord Kadizzle made it a point to talk a little politics with every clerk he encountered. What an eye opener. A lot of them could not tell you what year it is. The most frightening thing about this mess is how easily these people can be frightened. It is a given this election is going to be just one more round of scaring the stupid with urban legends and the guns, gays, and God routine. Americans have back slid so far it is amazing. The fundamentalist churches that have sprung up everywhere are the most prominent sight that people don't want to think, they just want to be bamboozled.

Racism and Religion, and the super stupid

Racism is alive and doing well in our country. Speaking with people I am perpetually amazed by the number of people who so readily say " I could not vote for a black, or a woman". What really pisses me off are the people who say this and think they are great Christians. One reason I am very sour on Christianity, and all religion for that matter is the meek nonsense put out by preachers. If a preacher had an once of God in him, he would tell his congregation that racism and religion don't mix. The gutless wimps that preach every Sunday don't have the balls to lay down the rules to the people who are paying them. The number of people who think it is just fine to go to church and see themselves as superior to blacks and women is just mind boogling. Most of the time I send you to the New York Times, but today read Richard Cohen in the Bismarck Tribune. Cohen says "Those voters don't even know enough to lie....". He is talking about the people who so openly expose their ignorance by admitting race is the reason they will not vote for Obama. These people are going to get exactly what they deserve.
Yesterday as I wandered out to the work site, I thought I saw someone I recognized. It was an old coal mine friend. Somehow we got on the topic of the election and what a hopeless waste the Republicans are. My friend who is old fashioned hillbilly dumb said his son was going to vote Republican, because Obama would take our guns away. Super dumb said to his son " My guns have already been taken away, so I am voting Democratic". Stunned his son said "Who took your guns away?" Dad replied to son " You did you got all my guns". Sometimes you can be so dumb that you vision becomes clear. The whole thing reminded me of what idiots we are. One more time the Republicans are going to use the old Guns, Gays, and God crap. It will probably work.

Megan enjoys a little sea food in France

Megan has been living the good life. With a French friend from high school Meg has a nice meal.

McCain will be Bush all over again

Yesterday Lord Kadizzle had a conversation with some hard working construction people. They have no use for Bush, and hopefully McCain, but Obama will be a big change, and it is hard for them to get used to the idea. I hope Clinton joins Obama, and we are off to the races.

Music at the Pocket Part Tonight

If you have time and the weather cooperates, come on down to the pocket park for some outdoor music. There will be food. The park is in full bloom and ready to go.

Lord Kadizzle can't get ahead

After Lord Kadizzle took his new job he started thinking about all the goodies he was going to by himself, then he had a wake up call. The Commander put the spending into high gear and contracted with a dinger to paint the house. Now the out go is nicely outpacing the income. It feels like paying taxes on money you won at the casino.

Pop Over to Pook's blog

Meg and Model Dog are having a great time in Paris, pop over to Pooks blog and read all about it. Lord Kadizzle loves her new hair cut. Leave it to the fashion lady.

Dowd puts a shot to the head

Maureen Dowd has been off her mark for awhile, bur her latest column fires a nice rocket where Lord Kadizzle likes to see them land, right up the exhaust of Bush. Read her spin on the latest defector in the Bush camp, New York Times.