Life on an Island

New Zealand is two big islands.  The people know they live on islands.  When you live on an island you quickly learn you only have so many trees, so many places to put garbage, so much coal, and you have to live within limits.  The Earth is an island, but the majority of souls operate as if it can tolerate endless abuse.  Once New Zealand saw that it's trees were all going to get chopped down.  The New Zealanders awakened and did something about it.  New Zealand had a gun nut incident. They awakened and now the government is buying back guns and looking for people with illegal guns.  Living on an island creates some sort of unity.  You don't have the divisiveness here that plagues our country.  One thing the people of New Zealand learned a lot about was invasive species.  The introduction of rats and a few other animals did massive damage to their pristine ecosystem.  Televangelist rats have sprung up in New Zealand.  Kadizzle has noticed some of those simple minded people who have to drive around in loud cars roaming the streets of Nelson.  A boom box car guy went by yesterday.  However,  on an island like Kadizzle said you notice things.  When the island is quiet and tranquil you notice a change quickly.  My guess is they will do something.

New Zealand is the cleanest well kept nation on Earth.  New Zealand has conquered plastic bags, junked cars,  and smoking.  It is almost comical to see the smokers here getting stomped out.  New Zealand has made smoking so expensive and socially offensive that the smoker have to roll their own tiny little cigarettes.  One pack of weeds cost clost to thirty dollars so the weed dogs roll these tiny little cigarettes and carry them around in a little baggie.  The people here are so conscious of waste.  You notice it.  The worst invasive species is the one that infects the brain.  You know that brain infection where you believe the Donald Trump fantasy.  That disease has not struck these islands and it may cause a massive invasion of Americans.  The lady from Montana who moved here said when Trump got elected she applied for and got here citizenship in New Zealand.  Were it not for our wonderful children and grandchildren the Kadizzles would move here in a heartbeat.  Winky would miss the desert, but we could transplant some prickly plants here and make them suffer like we do in the desert.

This gets us to the last amazing thing about New Zealand.  When you go in the woods there are no snakes, no bears, or any animal that will look at you as dinner.  There are no thorns here, not kidding. Kadizzle has not seen any plants with thorns.  Even the weeds seem to be in short supply.  The grass is actually greener.

Spending two weeks in New Zealand would be a good delusion buster for any American who thinks " Were number one".   We are number one in war as someone here pointed out.  At the outdoor store yesterday Kadizzle got into a discussion about health care.  The people here are just amazed about how Americans refuse to take care of each other.  The lady at the outdoor store who moved here from Montana told a story about a young American girl who died because of American health care.  The girl had cancer, and when she was no longer able to ride on her parents health care she died rather than bankrupt her family.  Meanwhile pick up the paper and read about how Billy Graham's old religious rag spoke out against Trump.  Then read how all the crooked preachers stood by Trump.  What in the hell is wrong with people?