Deals up in Flames

Early in the week it looked like we would be parting with the good ship. Not so. The economics of the buyer did not work out.  So it looks like our sailing life will continue for the time being. Thinking the good ship would be sold Kadizzle looked at a motorcycle.  Luckily Kadizzle held off to see if the boat sold.  So now back to square one.  It seems like we are going in circles.

Today we buzzed down to Bismarck. Cissie made a phone call to talk to our old friend Dina Butcher.  It was to make a lunch date.  Dina mentioned she did the NPR Story Core at the capital grounds in Bismarck.  Dina said they needed more people to participate so Kadizzle just by chance got there when there was an open appointment.  Dina agreed to interview Kadizzle.  So sometime in the near future the Kadizzle story will be in the archive of Story Core.  In retrospect the story was not that good so it will probably never make it any farther than the archive, but it was an interesting and fun experience. Kadizzle invited the two young ladies who run the Story Core trailer to sail.  If it works out perhaps they will sail on Sunday with Kadizzle, that should be fun.

Low information

Trump comes to Fargo, the idiots come out in droves.  Only a smack down will curb the desire to live the fantasy.  All my life I wondered how could people ever let someone like Hitler come to power, now it is being demonstrated right in front of me.  The sheer number of ignorant people so desperate to buy into a big lie.  Our forefathers had a lot of concerns about letting everyone vote.  That always seemed undemocratic, but when you see what happens when dolts are allowed to vote perhaps it made a lot of sense.  When you go to an expert you are admitting there is a lot you do not know.  Some of the old political systems were based on the idea that you picked a smart person to represent you because you knew you were not that smart.  What has happened now is people did not pick a smart man to represent them. They picked a hateful, greedy, ego driven childish man.  Trump's followers just want someone that mimics them.  Trump voters want someone who says a little hate and greed is just fine.  Trump voters want a man who shows them how to blame all their problems on someone else.

Every time it seems it can get no worse it does.  The more absurd and dishonest Trump is the better his supporters like him.   Will the country return to normalcy?  Slowly Trump is driving the economy into the ground.  His tax cuts for the rich are a joke.  Until people suffer economically they will ride the wave of Trump stupidity.  It is very sad that we have to suffer to learn, but such is life.

A Life Change

By the end of the week the Kadizzles should know if the good ship is sold.  The prospect seems good. A truck driver wants to buy the good ship. Kadizzle has had a sailboat since 1982.  That means we have been sailing for 36 years.  A lot of water has been plowed through in that time. If indeed the ship goes it will be time for some adventures of a different flavor. Kadizzle would like to do some international travel, and of course work for world peace.  Summer time travel has been skimpy during the boating years so the old Earth Module may see some summer action.  For the times they are a changing.

Me and Boby McGee

It's really me and Jasper Littlebottom.  Jasper and Kadizzle are headed to the lake.  Not much wind, but it will be the first time Littlebottom has sailed this year.  Littlebottom has had too much coffee and is jumping around more than usual like a wild bean.  The ship will be fully stocked with material for gin and tonics, wine, and enough goodies to make it a couple days. Hopefully we can catch up with some of the fleet that is out there. The fleet is limited because so many people had to take their boats out of the water because of the slip disaster. 

Littlebottom is complaining about getting all the crap ready.  When Kadizzle goes by himself it just takes two hamburgers, buns, eggs, butter, and off we go, but not Jasper.  Jasper takes so many little tweakers that Kadizzle cannot list them all.  Kadizzle can lose weight on his own, but when Jasper comes and cooks, well you know what happens.  Jasper is worried that this blog is announcing to all the thieves that we will be gone, so she is going to lock the house.  If you are a thief and planning on robbing us don't waste your time.  There is not much in the house worth stealing.  You will probably lose money on the robbery when you do the math.  When you buy gas, and figure your hourly rate your best bet is to chose a different home.  If you do rob us please take all the stuff Jasper will not let me throw out.  Also most of the stuff that looks expensive is fake.  Please take enough stuff to go over the insurance deductable.  Break everything you can in the master bath because we want to remodel it.  New, computers would be nice, please steal all of them.  If you have any questions about what we would like stolen, please just message us.  Watch what you eat out of the fridge, some of it is pretty old.  Don't get hurt, we don't want any law suits.  Please clean up when you are done, because Kadizzle will be blamed for the mess you make.  Don't touch any ice cream it all has ebola.  Cut the furniture in the living room to shreds like you are looking for money in the cushions, it all needs to be replaced.  When you break in use the back door, the screen does not go up and down the way it should.  Smash the hell out of it.  If you want steal the car and total it. We still owe money on the car.  You could ram the garage door on the right I just tried to fix it, and a new one would be nice.  If we come home and find you have properly robbed us, we will send you a bonus.  If it is a windy day set the house on fire.  We have been trying to sell the house with little luck.  There is plenty of gas in the shed.  If we get a good insurance settlement you could get a big bonus, because there will be no realtor fee, and remember the fire will erase the fingerprints.

Cannot Sleep

The sun is doing its best to get an erection.  Kadizzle sits here at 4:57 A.M.   A brief check of the New York Times is complete.  A few Hoopleheads from Dickinson on facebook are acting up.  A bird just woke up and is squawking.  It was a big victory for the flower shop in Hazen yesterday.  Stacy said she would stay closed until Trump freed the children.  It worked, Trump gave in.   God bless Stacy.  The Hoopleheads are an amazing bunch.  Trump can tell them the moon is cheese in the morning, and in the afternoon he will claim it is vanilla ice cream.  The Hoopleheads did not do well in school they cannot remember anything.  Trump loves the Hoopleheads, you can sell them anything. Trump has sold them steaks, and admission to his fake university.  Most amazing of all Trump has actually said he loves the poorly educated.  The Hoopleheads like the adulation. The great thing about the Hooples is they take such pride in being stupid.  As Trump robs them blind they relish the idea they can get free tickets to see him live in Fargo.   Then you have his little buddy Cramer in North Dakota.  If Trump spit Cramer would lick it up.  Cramer actually said there is nothing wrong with children behind chain link fences. It happens all the times at little league, and on the playground.  The Hoopleheads adore Cramer he is just like them, an idiot.  Today Kadizzle will go out among the unwashed and bath in the glory or right wing insanity.  The Hoopleheads tell me the reason double barreled shot guns were made was so you could shoot off both your feet.  That is why our constitution made sure the Hooples could have guns.

What a day at the Crazy Club

Stroupini returned from the West Coast.  Crazy Club owner Mike showed up, Marsh, Shiny, and the owner of the local flower shop came in.  The fireworks started.  Everyone was going nuts over the Republicans audacity to remove children from parents.  Mike wanted to go to Fargo and protest Trump when he comes to lie and distort for the resident rat Congressman Cramer.  The whopper was Mrs. Flower.  Mrs Flower closed the door on her shop and has a big sign out front.  She will not open until Trump frees the children.  It worked today Trump caved under the pressure from the flower shop. Trump reversed his stand and assured us he loves children more than Jesus.  Trump has stepped into a pile of it with his insane actions.  If only people can remember to November.   That will be the new slogan.

Adventures on the Lake.

Kadizzle took off yesterday by himself and sailed to Moose Bay.  A very pleasant sail.  After cooking dinner Kadizzle got bored and sailed over to Walleye Bay.  A pleasant night ensued and the sleeping was excellent.  Back out on the big lake and time to head East.  Wonderful day and the boat was sailing itself so well Kadizzle could sit on the bow and enjoy the morning sun.  Again boredom set in so Kadizzle decided to harass Scott Hennen on his right wing propaganda show on KFYR radio.  Hennen lt the whipping of his morality go on farther than Kadizzle thought possible.  Kadizzle called him to task on his lack of morality for not standing up to Trumps lies, and greed.  After a little back and forth and Hennen claiming Trump did not lie, it is just a matter of perception,  Hennen finally cut Kadizzle off. Of course this set fire to the Hoopleheads and it was fun to hear them call in and refer to Kadizzle as a communist and a socialist. 

Back at the Marina Kadizzle had some astounding good fortune and a good idea.  Seeing some empty slips Kadizzle called the renters and got permission to use one.  Since the disaster at the other boat slips forced Kadizzle to tie into shore this is indeed good fortune. Now the boat has a new home and here we sit getting this slip ready to be occupied by putting the water and electricity to the good ship.

Running around the marina Kadizzle met a nice couple traveling the country.  Invited them out for a sail and was a good time.  They really like the lake.

Don't mess with old people

AN OLD WOMAN WALKED UP AND TIED HER OLD MULE TO THE HITCHING POST.
AS SHE STOOD THERE, BRUSHING SOME OF THE DUST FROM HER FACE AND CLOTHES, A YOUNG GUNSLINGER STEPPED OUT OF THE SALOON WITH A GUN IN ONE HAND AND A BOTTLE OF WHISKEY IN THE OTHER. THE YOUNG GUNSLINGER LOOKED AT THE OLD WOMAN AND LAUGHED, "HEY OLD WOMAN, HAVE YOU EVER DANCED?"

THE OLD WOMAN LOOKED UP AT THE GUNSLINGER AND SAID, "NO,... I NEVER DID DANCE... NEVER REALLY WANTED TO."

A CROWD HAD GATHERED AS THE GUNSLINGER GRINNED AND SAID "WELL, YOU OLD BAG, YOU'RE GONNA DANCE NOW," AND STARTED SHOOTING AT THE OLD WOMAN'S FEET.

THE OLD WOMAN PROSPECTOR -- NOT WANTING TO GET HER TOE BLOWN OFF --STARTED HOPPING AROUND. EVERYBODY WAS LAUGHING. WHEN HIS LAST BULLET HAD BEEN FIRED, THE YOUNG GUNSLINGER, STILL LAUGHING, HOLSTERED HIS GUN AND TURNED AROUND TO GO BACK INTO THE SALOON.

THE OLD WOMAN TURNED TO HER PACK MULE, PULLED OUT A DOUBLE-BARRELED SHOTGUN, AND COCKED BOTH HAMMERS.
THE LOUD CLICKS CARRIED CLEARLY THROUGH THE DESERT AIR, AND THE CROWD STOPPED LAUGHING IMMEDIATELY.

THE YOUNG GUNSLINGER HEARD THE SOUNDS, TOO, AND HE TURNED AROUND VERY SLOWLY. THE SILENCE WAS ALMOST DEAFENING. THE CROWD WATCHED AS THE YOUNG GUNMAN STARED AT THE OLD WOMAN AND THE LARGE GAPING HOLES OF THOSE TWIN BARRELS.

THE BARRELS OF THE SHOTGUN NEVER WAVERED IN THE OLD WOMAN'S HANDS, AS SHE QUIETLY SAID, "SON, HAVE YOU EVER KISSED A MULE'S ASS?"

THE GUNSLINGER SWALLOWED HARD AND SAID, "NO M'AM... BUT I'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO.

THERE ARE FIVE LESSONS HERE FOR ALL OF US:

1 - Never be arrogant.
2 - Don't waste ammunition.
3 - Whiskey makes you think you're smarter than you are.
4 - Always make sure you know who has the power.
5 - Don't mess with old people; they didn't get old by being stupid.

Go West Young Man

Kadizzle may sail west today as a lone sailor.  The weather is overcast, but there will be a wind out of the North East, a good wind to go West.  Handling the 34 foot boat alone can be tricky.  Falling overboard is not a good plan.  Sailing alone Kadizzle lets a small line trail the boat.  Hopefully the line will allow the captain to pull the ladder down and regain control of the ship.  Simply having someone to steer the beast is a lot of help.  Perhaps Kadizzle can shanghai some help.  That would mean going into a bar in Pick City and hitting a drunk over the head like they used to do in the old days.  What would a drunk think if he woke up on my boat.  I could tell the drunk he got on the boat voluntarily. Oh, that bump on your head?  You fell.

Pay me now or pay me later

Warning, this may be a rant.  Taxes, those dreadful cost you have to pay, but what do they do? Taxes pay for a lot of things, but they pay for the roads, bridges, and a lot of things that keep us safe.  So what happens when you don't maintain bridges? Sometimes the bridges fall into the river.  It happened in West Virginia right after Kadizzle rode his motorcycle through Point Pleasant in West Virginia when he was going to college.  The bridge was full of Christmas traffic and people were killed.  Along come the Republicans who want to cut taxes on the rich so the poor cannot have safe bridges, but the rich will have safe yachts.  The rich don't use the roads, they fly over them in jets. So the rich are not too concerned about the bridges falling down.  Let the country crumble as long as we get tax breaks.  Also it is nice to have a war now and then, and after all that is what taxes are for.  As the Trumpster takes us toward the dictatorship he loves we glide to our delusional happiness watching Fox news.  Now remember we are all going to be rich some day.  That is why we must by lottery tickets.  If you are going to be rich you should plan for it.  Part of the plan is making sure you do not have to pay taxes when your lottery number is chosen.   So vote Republican even though you are caught in traffic on a bridge about to fall down. As they say shit happens.  Now we all have to decide what is important and what is not. Golf is important.  As a nation we have spent 17 million so Trump can golf, but no health care for the poor, and dammit let that bridge fall in we have to get Air Force One to Florida, and that ain't cheap.  Got to go now Fox News is on and it feels so much better when they tell me everything is peachy, it is just those constantly bitching liberals always wanting to get someone else money.

Grandma was slow, but she was old

Ain't no big hurry.  The marina was blown apart by the wind so the State Park management told all the boat owners to get their boats out.  Sounds simple, but putting sailboats in and out of the water is not much fun.  Remember that thing called a keel that sticks down from the bottom of a sailboat?  Kadizzle decided not to take his boat out, but to "mud it in", or tie it to the shore.  So for two days Kadizzle has been setting up the stakes and tie downs to do that.

Rain Crows

Far away and long ago Kadizzle remembers the old country store owner talking about the rain crows.  Lutrel would say " It's going to rain the rain crows are going".   So here Kadizzle sits fifty years later.  The Kadizzles got up at three in the morning unable to sleep.  Kadizzle got up and made coffee.  Outside the rain crows are going strong.  In accordance with yesterday's advice about looking into things Kadizzle checked out what a rain crow is.  Well it turns out it is a yellow billed cuckoo.  Sadly Kadizzle realizes that for fifty years he has been thinking the rain crow was the morning dove.  The old Hillbilly myth is that when the rain crow blows it will rain or storm.  Morning doves go all day long and the Earth would be flooded if indeed they predicted rain.  That noise out back is a morning dove.  Who cares?  As far as Kadizzle is concerned it is a rain crow.

Up at the lake a catastrophe has unfolded.  The docks moved and crushed the gangway to the boats.  Seems like the park is over reacting a little.  They want all the boats to leave the marina for three weeks.  This will be painful for boat owners.  Kadizzle has to figure out where he can put the Sovereign for three weeks while they repair the marina.  Taking the boat out of the water would be a rectum pain.  Today will be the day Kadizzle drives around to check the options for a home for the boat. 

Today is meeting day down at the Crazy Club.  Stroupini is in Washington, and it may be a sparse showing for membership.

Seems like Trump is trying to compete with our crazy club in Singapore.  Trump's crazy club has two of the craziest people on Earth.  When it comes to delusional and insane they got the deal going.  Trumps ability to lie is amazing.  How any rational human cannot see that Trump is bug fucking crazy eludes Kadizzle.  Sorry for the profanity, but it sums up Trump.  The bugs he happens to be interceding with are the Rednecks, and the Republicans.  Kadizzle just watched a humorous takeoff on the movie trailer Trump showed Kim Jong whatever his name is.  Amazing insanity.  Trump actually showed the North Korean dictator a short promotional clip of the two dictators and the great things they have done.  You just cannot get any more nutty than Trump.  Trump said he saw the North Koreans firing tanks from the beach.  What comes to that idiot's mind?  Condominiums, yup, the brain dead Trump sees a display of military might by North Korea firing into the ocean and says " What a nice beach for a condominium.  Trump has the brain of a twelve year old on a good day.  The North Korean dictator had his uncle shot with an anti aircraft gun, has hundreds of thousands of people in concentration camps, tortures people, and starves his own people to death, and Trump says he is a wonderful guy you can trust.  Here we are deep in North Dakota the land of the Hoopleheads that worship at the feet of Trump and Cramer.   Absolutely amazing.

Ignorance is no excuse

Kadizzle was getting some thoughts in his head about the water flowing through the dam at Pick City.  Do they run all the water past the turbines or is a lot of the water released without doing any work to produce electricity?  Well there is a simple solution, call up the person running the generators and find out.  Kadizzle called some nice young woman at the Garrison dam and she gave him the answer.  All the water is producing electricity except 3,000 cubic feet per second which is going through the flood tunnel.  What is the point of all this?  The point is you can go down to the coffee shop and hear all sorts of nonsense and you can believe any of it you want.  On the other hand you can check for real information from people who actually know.  In the modern age of the internet doing your own research is easy.  Sadly most people would rather just let Fox News, or Rush lie to them.  In the end the question is do you want to know, or do you want to believe.  You can believe thing that are wrong.  Knowing is a little different.  You might believe there are 12 eggs in the carton you just bought, but you will not know until you open it.  We live in a nation of believers, not knowers.

Xanadu

Someone who cares finally bought our old boat Xanadu, or as Bob calls it Karumba.  The Kadizzle family spent twelve good years sailing that boat and had a lot of great times on it.  Our two girls grew to be brave and love the outdoors every weekend sailing on that ship.  Xanadu went through storms, groundings, and every sailing mishap imaginable.  Kadizzle helped the new owner get the old girl going again.  It will be so nice to see that yellow hull one more time one the lake.  Sadly too many idiots owned and never used it.  They put things away incorrectly and ruined a lot of good equipment.  Xanadu has an unusual engine. It has what is called a saildrive.  The engine is like an outboard that sticks right through the bottom of the hull behind the keel.  The idea has some merit.  Sailboats if moderately taken care of will last a long time in fresh water.  There are really no moving parts to speak of and the sails can go a long time if cared for.  We fiddled around with some polishing compounds and it seems like the color will come back with some work.  Just cannot wait to see that boat cleaned up and sailing like the days of old.  Remember so many good memories with Megan and Erin on that boat.  Kadizzle cannot recommend any better way to raise girls than making sailors out of them.  They become self confident, and learn a lot about decision making. 

When the girls were growing up and we were sailing it became the custom if there was squabbling to just throw the offender overboard.  Dad would say if you don't behave you are getting "pitched".  Pitched became part of our language at home and on the lake.  The best part was Kadizzle would actually do it.  Just pick the little rascal up and throw them in the lake.   It was a wonderful solution. The cold water usually changed their attitude and they could watch the boat sail away.  Sometimes even if they were behaving they got pitched.  It was a safety drill.  A good crew and ship should know how to retrieve someone from the water.  What better way to do it than throw a kid overboard.  On a warm sunny day we would pitch someone by surprise.  Then the drill started and the boat maneuvered under sail to pick them up.

We used to have an inflatable kayak.  Megan and Erin would be back behind the Xanadu in the Kayak for a long time having a good ride and mom and dad got some peace and quiet.  Both kids turned out to be good water dogs.  Erin always amazed us with how cold water did not bother her at all.

Our Town

Lauren got a notion to revamp the park next to the library in Hazen.  The old guard has been shoveling, weeding, moving gravel, and tilling.  The younger generation is hopeless.  Young people have no sense of donating to the community.  In the old days people built things for the city.  The city is so damn cheap we lack sidewalks in many places.  If you want something, you get a bunch of people scrape up some money, some material, and volunteers.  That is how everything got done.  Now we live in a new age.  The young want someone else to do it.  They want things just to appear.  In the big city you don't build your own park, you don't plan your own festival, you just go to the park and the festival.  Now we live in a world of me, me,  me.   What can I do for me.  Republicans have played on this.  Republicans hate the notion of sharing.  Why should I help do something for someone else when I could be building a fence in my own backyard?  Why should I pay taxes for the common good when I could use that money to buy a bigger fishing boat?  Why do I owe the world anything.  Republicans have a neat way of forgetting someone else won the wars, someone else made the streets, and someone else paid for the schools.  So lets do like Trump and get rid of the government, and taxes.  Let's all get rich by paying no taxes.  Lets just borrow money from China when we need something.  The Chinese will be glad to buy sidewalks for Hazen.  Maybe the Chinese will build us a park. Trump has destroyed all sense of human decency, and who has helped him do it? The fundamentalist Christians.  Trump can lie, steal, or screw porn stars, but he is their hero.  Go figure.

The 99% Is a Myth—Here's How It Really Breaks Down

The Stan Rodgers Glee Club

In spurts the members of the Stan Rodgers Glee Club arrived at the barn.  Kadizzle rode with Shanika to the event.  We got there early so Shanika could set up his wokinator.  The wokinator is Shanika's invention for cooking stir fried food.  Seem's like the Glee Club has been singing together for over thirty years.  Of course there is some eating and drinking going on also.  Harvey the owner of the barn has done a magnificent job of turning the hay loft into a unique gathering place.  In the corner is a bar salvaged from an establishment in Pick City.  The stage is complete with an elaborate sound system.  The old men all gathered and sang the old songs, The Parting Glass, The Northwest Passage, and a plethora of folk songs from way back.

Just about all of us have put some pounds around the belly.  A couple have shrunk, and age is taking it's toll. 

God Bless Honest Omar

As all good Kadizzle readers know we are trying to start a ministry to save native American souls on the reservations that border Lake Sakakawea.  A loyal reader Honest Omar has made a generous contribution to this end.  Now the lord does work in strange ways. Kadizzle was walking out to do his chores and notices an envelope on the garage floor.  Opening the letter which Mrs. K must have dropped Kadizzle found the contribution from Honest.  Not only did Honest make a nice cash donation, he also named the ministry.  " Words on the Wind" now this proves Honest is truly blessed by the lord and Samuel Adams. Since this is a prosperity ministry Honest Omar will receive a financial blessing today.  Everyone who donates as Honest Omar has will receive our booklet " How to help God by cheating Trump."  The booklet is packed with ideas of how to cheat on your income taxes.  All the ministry ask is that what ever you steal from Trump you give half to the lord.  Of course Kadizzle has the lord's address so you will need to send your checks to the ministry.

Just to review the plan is to buy a very large expensive sailing yacht which will allow Reverend K to sail deep into the Indian Reservations on Lake Sakakawea.  Reverend K will anchor in sight of heathens and drink beer and wine.  Naturally the heathens will call from shore and ask to share the sacrament.  Reverend K will invite them onboard and pray for them.  Of course he will have to give them some communion wine,  and beer.  We call the beer the urine of the sacred donkey Jesus rode on. Once the communion liquids have had their effect the new church members will be asked to donate ten percent of their income to save other souls. An immediate donation shows good faith and will help cover the cost of the sacrament.

Following the lead of Trump and the Mormons our church will allow multiple wives and porn star girlfriends.  However, God wants you to give as much to the church as you give to the porn star.  Sorry, but forgiveness is not free.  Church members will get a free list that will let them know how much forgiveness is for any sin.  Failing to send money to the church is a sin.  It can be forgiven for ten dollars. If you are thinking of a sin and want a free estimate on what it will cost to be forgiven, don't hesitate to call.  Incidentally voting Republican is a sin. It will  cost you health care, and you will pay more for all the essentials from China, but no problem just send " Words of the Wind" fifty dollars and your problem is solved.  Otherwise it will not rain, a tornado may hit your house, and one of your children will marry a Republican.  Not that God does not love you, but we do need rules. Reverend K can cite countless examples of people who did not send him money, and have had bad things happen to them.  A local man recently had a flat tire.  Would that have happened if he had sent words of the wind ten dollars?  You be the judge.  All you need is faith.  Today Reverend K has money just because Honest Omar had faith.  This proves faith works.  Why not make faith work for you just as Omar did.  Remember the greater the faith (faith comes in tens and twenties) the greater the blessing. God bless every one of you, except those that do not have faith.  See previous comments.

Reading Assignment

Every so often someone does an excellent job of summarizing the problem.  Somehow Kadizzle stumbled across an article in The Alantic Magazine,  The 9.9 percent is the new American Aristocracy.  If you read the article you need take no further classes and will be awarded an A this semester.  The articled sums up in great detail what is happening to our economy, and how it translates into what is happening to our country.  The article has some startling facts and figures.  One figure that show what we have become is the net worth of the average American family, and as a subset of that the average black American family.  The average black family has a net worth of $1,200 dollars.  Income inequality? 

Life is strange

Awake the coffee is working and the brain is coming alive.  Back from the sail.  Water is pouring into Lake Sakakawea at an astounding rate, 100,000 cubic feet a second. Do the math that is pushing a million gallons a second. 

Now back to strange, which is today's topic.  One of Kadizzle's absolute favorite quotes is from Albert Einstein.  Albert said " Life is not stranger than you think, it is stranger than you can think".  With the strange twist and turns of life Kadizzle always thinks of what Albert said.   So many strange things happen. Dreaming is such a strange thing.  Kadizzle often falls into the deepest sleep imaginable.  The dreams of great detail come and make absolutely no sense.  How does your mind create a dream?   How does your mind create a movie.  Yesterday while sleeping Kadizzle briefly dreampt about a mean woman he used to work with.  In the morning awake Kadizzle realized he was looking across the lake at a house that is where the nasty woman lives.  Kadizzle had no conscious thought of the house the day before, but the subconscious must have noted it was nearby.  This gets us to the question, what does our mind do that we are unaware of?  There is part of our mind that makes those dreams.  We know nothing of how it works.  Our mind is doing many things we do not know about.  Kadizzle has read we only use ten percent of our brain capacity.  Of course Trump is down to two or three percent. 

Back to the world of strange. Imagine before radio if you had told someone waves of thought, music, and now even pictures could travel through the air across the world instantly.  Thomas Jefferson, or Ben Franklin would have thought you entirely insane, but it is just accepted now.  What does this mean?  It means that there will be astounding changes in reality which we cannot anticipate.  Think about it.

Down Below

Kaddizzle is sitting at the captains desk.  The boat is steering itself.  Alone the captain is headed East.  Just left Berthold Bay.  For the first time in many years Kadizzle anchored out near the front of the bay near the big lake.  Two other sailing friends anchored with me.  We tied up for awhile and shot the breeze at dinner time.  Luckily Kadizzle has two computers onboard. If the other one will come alive a check can be made to see if we are on course.  The good ship does not have an auto pilot, but if you set the helm just right it will stay on course in light winds.  Yesterday the ship sailed itself for hours.  Seems like the sound of the bow girgling has stopped so either the wind went down or we are off course.  The other computer is having a hard time so must peek outside to see where Kadizzle is headed.  Looks like the wind has just about died.  So the boat is doing OK. 

One never knows where he might find a Kadizzle reader.  Yesterday when Kadizzle tied up back in Berthold he wandered up to the hilltop to do some phoning.  Out in the bay was a pontoon.  Later the Grim ship came alongside.  It was the only Kadizzle reader know to exist in the immediate area.  Wait, there may be two others.  It is a secret society.  In Mercer county you can be arrested if you are proven to be both a liberal and a Kadizzle reader.  So these things must be kept secret.  Republicans flourish here like weeds.  You can spray for them, but nothing works.

One more try at the navigation app. Not  looking good, it is showing the Sovereign somewhere in New Mexico.  The computer must need coffee.  Time to shut it off and let it wake up again.  No sounds from the ship so either the wind died or we are off course.  Time for another peek.  The ship is doing a great job self steering we are almost in a dead calm.  Wind may be on the north side of the lake.  Very strange, on the second try the navigation has the boat still in New Mexico.  According to the application the boat is on Chochiti Lake where we camp on the way home from Arizona.  Must be under the control of aliens.  One more try.   It will be a long way home i

If Kadizzle has to sail from New Mexico to North Dakota at four knots.  Might get home in the fall. The Russians must be jamming the GPS signal to piss off Trump.  Love the Trumpster saying he can pardon himself.  Instead of committing all his fraud he may as well just rob a bunch of banks then pardon himself.

Absolute calm so if the wind does not come up may have to start the engine.  Mrs. Kadizzle has completely lost her mind preparing for her great hike this summer.  Mrs Kadizzle is going to hike 250 on the John Muir Trail in California.  A lot of the hike is over 10,000 feet.  So every day she puts on her 35 lb pack and hikes eight or nine miles.  Kadizzle is worried she will hammer herself to death on the actual hike.  Who will feed Kadizzle?  Where will fresh underwear come from?  Mrs. Kadizzle has said many times no other woman would have Kadizzle.  Imagine a homeless Kadizzle living on peanuts, and frozen pizza.  Have to go now am about to cry.

I like you just the way you are

Watching television last night with Mrs,  Kadizzle saw a show on Mr. Rodgers.  Mr. Rodgers is dead, but a person who used to be on his show became emotional when he talked about the time Mr. Rodgers told him " I like you just the way you are".   The man happened to be a black man.  At that moment it sunk into the man how Mr. Rodgers was doing something good for children.  When you sit back and ponder that idea it has power.   How many people want you to be something else.  If you really put your mind to it you realize your friends are the ones who " like you the way you are".  They don't want you to be something different.  What would it be like if everyone was what you wanted them to be?  It would be pretty scary when you think about it.  On the other hand we spend so much of our life trying to change people into what we want them to be.  First comes our children.  Soon we realize once you plant a seed you have little hope of turning a carrot into a tomato.  You can weed it, you can fertilize it, but you cannot turn it into a tomato.  Once you accept you have a carrot, the trick is to enjoy your carrot.  So what is the moral of the story?  Maybe it is don't try to change people, try to cultivate them.  Let them change themselves if they want.  You can give them ideas, or point them in certain directions, but carrots will be carrots,  and tomatoes will be tomatoes.  In either case you have to protect them from the weeds.

The rain came

Finally the heavens opened and drops fell from the sky.  Wind was a bonus.  The poor birds, too many had their eggs blown from the nest in the shaking trees.  The grass is struggling to turn green. No one has shown up to buy the Kadizzle estate, so here we sit in neutral.  Yesterday Kadizzle tried to call the Democrat running for Congress to replace the vile Kevin Cramer.  No luck.  The guy Max Schnieder was on the KFYR right wing propaganda show yesterday.  Kadizzle forced himself to listen to the endless mini Rush stuff.  The host, Scott Henen who anyone should be able to out fox walked on the Democrat.  You don't go to a gun fight with a knife as they say.  Max should have brushed up on his statistics to bomb Henen with facts, but instead he tried to be the sweet moderate Democrat.  That is why Democrats lose because they will be Democrats.  In North Dakota like Heidi they try to pander to the some red necks to get elected. Democrats get snookered.  Heading toward November lets pray people awaken and overthrow the Republican scoundrels.  Unlikely to happen.

Tap into the supply of idiots

Kadizzle has always been amazed by crooked stump preaches.  Even as a teenager Kadizzle would listen to these crooked preachers bilk stupid people on his hometown radio station WWVA.  So it is amusing to see the latest crook asking his congregation to buy him a new 64 million dollar jet so he can spread the word of Jesus.  Jesus already has two jets he has given the crook, but the man of the lord say he needs a jet that can fly nonstop so he can get the word out.  In addition to this crooked man of the lord you have Joel Epstein who also bilks the ignorant for millions.  The real amazing thing is this type of fraud is tax free.  The first guy has a 35, 000 square for home the lord has provided him. 

So Kadizzle wants to be a crooked preacher.  If you are reading this send me all you can in cash. God only accepts cash, not credit cards. I will pray for you and you will get ten times what you send me.  I promise. It might take awhile, but be patient. However, I need the money to do the lords work right now.  I need to reach people who are hard to reach with the word of the lord.  My mission is different.  I am trying to reach native Americans on lake Sakakawea.  Sure I have a sailboat now, but I need a much larger boat so I can stay out for weeks.  A two million dollar boat would enable me to sail deep into the badlands and preach.  Some of the poor wretched souls have drinking problems. I would like to equip my boat with a bar so I can lure them on board to preach the word of Jesus to them.  Now, if you do not want to help out of the goodness of your heart, I must remind you how hot hell is and how God frowns on cheap people who will not send me money.  No telling what might happen to you if you do not support God's mission.  Remember anything you send me is tax deductible.  So anyone who sends money will get a picture of me on the new boat with some inebriated people I may be trying to save. God bless every one of you and especially those willing to open their wallets to spread the word on the new sailboat named "Words on the Wind".  God Bless, please hurry people are going to hell just because you are so cheap.