Kevin Cramer, and John Hoeven make sausage

The greed of the Republicans has triumphed.  Our constitution has been ground to shreds to provide tax cuts for the rich. We have entered the new era of dictatorship. Trump can do no wrong.  If Trump did it, it is right. Long live the King.

A Double hit

Kadizzle is furious about Trump becoming a dictator.  Today he was happy to see a double hit.  The Bismarck Tribune actually did what Kadizzle suggested to the editor.  The Tribune tried to pry an answer out of the two rats Cramer, and Hoeven about why we cannot have witnesses at the impeachment.  Of course the rats gave the party line answers.  The Tribune did run a front page story.  For icing on the cake the Tribune Published a letter from Kadizzle on the cover up.  So it is starting as a good day, but the rats will declare Trump to be a dictator today.

As we slip into a banana republic we may as well do the laundry and act like life is normal. Kadizzle has been banging out articles for the Globe newspaper about hiking the Tonto Basin trails.  Perhaps that task will start after coffee.  Please call your congressman today and insist they impeach the rat.

Morning

Few things are more refreshing than a trip to the executive suite.  Since we arise so early the stars are still out and shining with all their glory.  The air is brisk enough to force you into consciousness.  Our nice little refuge is just a short walk from the Earth Module.  The Earth module is equipped with a throne, but Winky insist we use the executive suite.  The facility is very nice.  It is made of first class material and has a his and hers library with two flush thrones.  The little shack out back even has solar lighting.  With the miracle of science the light come on at dark and go out at sunrise.  Nothing like a solar powered throne. 

Winky and the trail crew are going to hike up the mountain.  Kadizzle is going to stay back at the ranch and see if he can get some paperwork done.  Warning, don't ever put a scratch on a rental car.  When Kadizzle was in New Zealand the car company claimed Kadizzle made a little scratch on the bumper.  The car company wanted to charge 700 dollars for the problem.  Kadizzle believes someone may have put the scratch on the bumper while he had the car parked at a beach.  Nonetheless it has turned into an insane go around.  Supposedly the claim is covered by the credit card company.  The credit card company wants so much irrelevant information it is impossible to provide.  They want to know what brand underwear Kadizzle had on and if he was chewing gum.  Once you give them that information they write back and say how many pieces of gum were you chewing, and where did you put the gum wrapper.  Well that is the mess Kadizzle has to sort out today.

No witnesses.  How insane can Republican be?  Why not eliminate the judge and turn the lights out?  How stupid have we become that anyone would call something a hearing, a trial, or even a good witch hunt without witnesses.  The Salem Witch trials at least had witnesses. 

Thanks for tuning in.

To boost Kadizzle's ego he just checked the statistics.  So this is a special thank you to my Russian friends and readers,  all 899 of you, twice the number as Americans.  Some great writers have come out of Russia so it is a privilege that you read this crap from a simple minded American.  Kadizzle is not a Putin fan, but he does deserve credit for what he has done with Trump.  Russia has always shown it's skills at chess.  Putin has made Trump the perfect pawn.  Trump has driven the U.S. deep in debt.  Stupidity has spread like a virus in our country and your Russian hacks are doing great.  Moscow Mitch is another victory for you guys.  You guys know how to hack and get into things so get hold of Kadizzle.  It would be so nice to get the Russian view on what is going on here.  Kadizzle has found just about all foreign people know more about our country than we do.  You Ruskies can surely find my email.  Fire me a note and let me know your opinion.

Goats vs Tree

Five old goats went up Campaign Trail.  It would be goats vs a very large tree that fell across the trail.  First we had to walk through Peter Bigfoots place.  It was very sad to see what the fire and floods have done to his little nirvana.  Several of his building were burnt down and the amount of sand that has migrated into his stream is amazing.  Still his spirits don't seem to be dampened.  Instead of going into Peter Bigfoot just look him up on the Google. 

After passing through Bigfoots we soon came to the large tree five engineers all over seventy were going to move.  A very large tree fell across the trail and the plan was to use a hand operated winch to remove the tree.  It was not a simple process.  The tree caused a rock fall when it fell and it turned out to be a dangerous undertaking. The possibility of being involved in a rock slide and going into a steep ravine were part of the program.  The entire process was an exercise in physics.  Using levers, and pulleys we finally managed to move the tree.  It was about a three hour process.  In the end the old goats actually said they enjoyed the challenge.  The adventure was a nice change from the usual process.  The fire damage and water damage along the trail is very bad and it will take massive amounts of work to restore the trail.  The trail has probably been in use for centuries if not longer.  Many ancient Indian sites are in the area and no doubt it was in use by them.  Hopefully the spirits of the ancients were with us today. 

Way up the mountain.

Kadizzle hiked two miles up the mountain for an altitude gain of about 1400 feet.  It has been awhile since the old man has made the effort.  A little sore, but must have burnt off some chicken meat around the belly.  Sad to report did not bring any tablets down.  There were tablets and a burning bush.  Moses was standing there and Kadizzle asked him what the deal was.  Moses explained that Trump broke every one of the commandments on the tablets and there was no sense in bringing broken tablets down the mountain.  Kadizzle would testify as a witness to all this, but witnesses have gone out of style.

Now for the exciting news.  Kadizzle was just about back to the truck yesterday when he noticed pot shards on the trail. Kadizzle has hiked this trail many times, but somehow managed to miss the evidence on the trail.  Kadizzle traced the shards back to their origin and found an Indian site.  Whoa, he found a neat artifact.  It was something about the size of a fifty cent piece with a hole in the middle. One side was plain and the other side had markings.  It seemed like a coin,  or some sort of decoration.

The phone troll

OK this is straightforward.  Kadizzle is insane, he has lost his mind.  Kadizzle is totally obsessed with fighting the Republican scourge.  Winky would not let the big K wear his IMPEACH shirt to the biosphere yesterday.  Of course the battle has to go on.  As reported earlier Kadizzle has developed a phone technique to bug the Red Hats.  When Kadizzle suspects a Red Hat is close by he pretends to be on the phone.  With the Red Hat nearby Kadizzle loudly says some nasty things about Trump.  Yesterday Kadizzle tried the ploy at the biosphere.  The last two tries have resulted in complements and cheers.  People Kadizzle thought were Red Hats have turned out to be decent Americans.  Anyway it is fun, and will probably get Kadizzle shot or wounded, but such is life.  A good shot to the head is preferable to a long bout with cancer.  Everyone have a good day and do your part to save our country.

Up in the Morning

Five A.M, and we are up.  Winky wants to go up the Denton Trail today.  Kadizzle slept well and may go with the gang up the trail.  It would be tempting to veer off the trail and go to the big waterfall.  The waterfall on Sycamore Creek should be running well. 

On Facebook Kadizzle got into a little kerfuffle with some Red Hats.  The Red Hats want to honor the military, but are having a hard time honoring Colonel Vindman who blew the whistle on the Trumpster.   The Red Hats were upset about all the attention the dead basketball player was getting, but how people were ignoring the recent deaths of soldiers.   It seems that if you support soldiers, you would surely support them when they stand up against a rat like Trump.  No, the Red Hats want to call Vindman a trader because he did the honorable thing.  Strange world.

Back from the Biosphere

Were back from exploring the great experiment of the biosphere.  Perhaps you recall the experiment where people were going to stay inside an enclosed garden for two years to see if it could be self sustaining.  The experiment failed, but today experiments are being run there to see if we can sustain life on Earth.  The whole complex was much larger than Kadizzle had imagined.  Rather than write here about it you might check it out on the Google.

Our Earth is in peril. That is one thing the experiment has shown. The level of CO2 has gone up. We are close to the point where the ocean cannot tolerate the CO2 level.

The disturbing part is what our government is now doing under Trump to hasten our demise.  Materialism is bring us to the end.  Trump has so successfully played on greed.  We are senselessly burning up the ball of Earth we live on. 

Breaking News

Kadizzle just checked the statistics on the blog.  Thank you Russia for both me and Trump.  According to the tracking done by the service Kadizzle uses to write this blog there are twice the number of Russians following the Blog as Americans.  It was something like a 7 to 4 ratio.  Now, do you think Russia is interfering in our world?  Winky says first of all why would anyone read your blog, especially from Russia?  Winky says Russian trolls for sure.  Thanks for reading Russia.  You Russians did a great job blackmailing Trump.  If he gets high and pushes the button you have no one to blame but yourselfs. 

Here we go

Finished up the night with a campfire up at Cliff's.  Tomorrow we will go to the Biosphere in Oracle. That is the experiment where people lived inside a glass bubble for a year.  Yesterday we hiked up Windy Hill.  During the hike Ken and Kadizzle discussed the fossils we found everywhere. Two old fossils trying to figure out how all the rocks had fossils on them.  Seemed like some sort of barnacle had been on the rocks and then fossilized.  Must have been a sea or ocean here at one time.

Now our country is wallowing in a sea of stupidity. 

Semi sunny day here at the Earth module.  Kadizzle has been debating with himself about a couple of purchases. Should he buy a road motorcycle?  Should he get back into sailing with a sailboat?  On again off again.  Not owning things is a luxury.  You don't have to move, store, or service nothing.  This brings us to one of Kadizzle's favorite mantras " A man is rich in accordance with what he can afford to do without".  Nothing makes you richer than needing nothing.  Sadly it is that stage of life were you could buy your last car, shoes, you name it.  The big excitement is Cheech.  Cheech our little fashion design lady is going to pop us out a little boy in a week or two.  It has taken a long time for the women in this outfit to figure out how to get a grandchild with a stem.   Granpa will have a lot of fun with a little boy if he can live long enough. 

Go forth and prosper, enjoy life, and fight the good fight against the evil represented by the Republicans.

The Telephone Ploy

The commander of the universe, none other than Winke told Kadizzle to get to Globe, AZ and get the oil in the truck changed.  In a fit of fear Kadizzle obeyed the command.  Once in Globe Kadizzle found a quick lube place.  The little fat lady running the place also barked commands like Winkie.  So there sat fat old Kadizzle bored.  Then the thought entered his mind.  Kadizzle was in a room full of people waiting for oil changes.  Why not do the phone ploy.  Kadizzle pulled out his phone and pretended to talk as if there was someone on the phone.  Kadazzle said all the bad things he could think about Trump very loudly as if in a real conversation with someone on the phone.  Kadizzle thought he might stir up a right wing Hooplehead and have some fun.  Once Kadizzle ended the fake call the guy sitting right beside him said " I agree with everything you said".   This was strange, but fun.  The fellow turned out to be intelligent, well read, and not what Kadizzle was expecting.  We had a nice conversation about the problems of our country and the evil of The Republicans. 

Now a bit of a predicament occurred.  The tough lady who ran the place came into the waiting room with the cartridge that holds the oil filter for the Toyota.  She showed it to Kadizzle and said it was leaking and broken because someone had put it on too tight.  Seemed a bit strange, and Kadizzle sort of felt it might be a scam.  Mrs. Oil Change said she could replace it with a steel filter holder that was better.  The cost would be an additional $45.  Kadizzle suspected a rip off, but did not know what to do.  First it seemed like a good idea might be to have the holder put back on the truck and see if it actually leaked.  That could be complicated.  Finally Kadizzle caved in and bought the $45 steel replacement for the plastic original gizmo.   The lady said this was a common problem with Toyotas.   Driving away from the oil place Kadizzle suddenly had an epiphany.  What a coincidence, the lady just happened to have the part needed at her shop.  Now this seems strange.  One might think if they found a problem they would have to get the part from a parts store, but no they had it on hand.  The truck is a 2012 and has had a lot of oil changes.  Strange that this one it suddenly needed a new cartridge holder.  Maybe it was a rip off, maybe not.  The circumstances give it about a fifty fifty chance. 

Not bad for an old guy

Yesterday Kadizzle met a much younger guy in his forties with a dirt bike.  Today we rode together over some very difficult terrain.  About three quarters of the way through the ride the new acquaintance said " How old are you?".  Kadizzle explained that soon he would be 71.  The young fellow looked in semi amazement.  We had just conquered some of the hardest trails one could find.  Paul said " I hope I am in that good a shape when I am 70".   Kadizzle felt both proud and old.

After we stopped and had lunch Paul said he wanted one more ride.  Kadizzle took him way up on the mountain to one of the absolute worst and most difficult rides there is.  On the way to the really bad part Kadizzle debated with himself if he should try it.  The prospect of falling over and possibly damaging the cycle did not seem inviting.  Kadizzle thought about letting some air out of the rear tire for more traction.  When we finally got to the bottom of the mother of all hills Kadizzle's better brain became active.  Kadizzle suggest Paul go first.  Paul is a very good rider and will be in a race tomorrow.   Paul agreed to go first and come back to rescue Kadizzle if he fell.  Paul made it to the top.  Kadizzle saw how an expert struggled to get up the road he had conquered in the past and decided to forgo the stupidity.  Kadizzle signaled Paul to go on to the very top without him.  The last couple hundred yards are pure hell. It is steep and like riding over cement soccer balls.  Paul seemed to be taking a little too much time and Kadizzle began to think.  Kadizzle could not see Paul do the very top.  What if Paul crashed.  Kadizzle may not be able to get up there to help him.  After some time Paul did return and reported he had made it to the very top without going down.  Paul said no amature should ever attempt that ride.  Kadizzle has made it about three or four times. and crashed at least half of those tries.  In two crashes the clutch lever became broken.  Kadizzle decided to buy some fancy brush guards to stop that problem.   So Paul made it up and back, Kadizzle never made the attempt, nothing is broken and all is well.

Earlier in the ride we went down the backside of the mountain to Lake Apache.  Yesterday Kadizzle had suggested to Paul he attempt to ride up that way.  After Kadizzle thought about it, he realized it would not be a good idea.  Then Kadizzle suggested Paul ride down the back side.  Paul never made the trip yesterday, but we both did.  Since last year it turns out the road, which was already terrible became worse.  That special feeling came where you are conscious you are about to do something very stupid.  The very first part of the steep decline was basically a boulder hop.  Kadizzle could see that if he went down it would be impossible for him to get back up.  That meant the only way to go would be on down.  With a gust of stupidity Kadizzle made the decision to go down.   If there was another even worse spot farther down we would be stuck unable to go up or down.   Sure enough it got bad again, but there did appear to be a small track we might be able to take.  Paul went first .  Kadizzle took off next and the cycle fell over in the first ten feet.  The marble like sand slipped the motorcycle when Kadizzle touched the front brake.  It was embarrassing to execute a crash so easily.  Kadizzle yelled for Paul to help upright the cycle.  Before Paul walked back up Kadizzle managed to right the machine and made it down.   You know it is a nasty ride when you cannot make it going down hill.   At the end of the day we had a lot of good riding.  Kadizzle was glad to have someone to ride with.  Crashing in the outback alone is stupidity on steroids.  If you are laying under a motorcycle high on a mountain with no one around in a place you never should have gone you feel just like a Trump voter.  You did it to yourself.

The Indian Walk

Up early Kadizzle drove the trail crew to the top of the Four Peaks.  Their mission was to trim brush as they hiked down Oak Flat Trail.  On a crystal clear day it was Kadizzle's job to drive back down the mountain and pick them up at the bottom.  The Forest Service road crew was grading the mountain road and Kadizzle had to stop and chat them up a bit. Nice guys with a good job. Two guys who maintain the roads with a bulldozer, backhoe, and grader.

At last after some pleasant driving early in the day Kadizzle was at the bottom of Oak Flat.  First he had to take a short hike to check out the little waterfall that is running pretty good with the snow melt.  Next on the agenda was the Indian walk. What is an Indian walk?  Well you just wander around up and down the mountain and imagine you are there six hundred years ago.  What would they have looked at, and what did they think.  At one time Kadizzle and the Mrs found an Indian site in the areal.  Have not yet been able to locate it again.  Hiking up into a steep area Kadizzle decided he would try to make it over to the Oak Flat trail.  It did not take too long to find out the thick brush made it impossible.  Just wandering around aimlessly up and down the mountainside was pleasant.  No hurry, no mission, at my own pace.  At one point the Air Force guys went by chasing each other in jets, and a little later an Osprey helicopter went over.   The way the jets buzz by it is puzzling how they do not accidently obliterate some of the smaller craft putzing around.

Earlier in the day right after leaving the crew off on the top of the mountain Kadizzle took a short ride to the Four Peaks parking area.  An old white beat up pickup truck was there and people seemed to be nearby.  Kadizzle approached and said good morning.  With Kadizzle in the Forest Service Truck the two people seemed a little suspicious.  They seemed like they might be up to something.  However, the conversation went well and Kadizzle realized he had seen this couple last year in the same place. The guy looked way over weight and that is one reason Kadizzle remembered him.  The guy had been struggling to hike up the trail last year.  It turned out the guy and his female partner were going to hike up to an amethyst mine.  Supposedly the mine is one of the best for the gems their is.  The guy explained there was a cabin up there where they would stay and mine.  Kadizzle said he had no idea what the mineral looked like.  The guy sent his wife to the truck and she came back with some small stones.  There was the mineral in the stones.  Kadizzle tried to give the guy the stones back, but he said no keep them.  They are small, but it was a nice gesture.  He said a $60,000 dollar stone had been found there.  He admitted he was out of shape, but you have to give the guy credit that is no easy hike.  So we had a very good day and everyone enjoyed the hiking.  Almost forgot one other encounter.   Kadizzle got back to the truck before anyone else and ran into a guy on a dirt motorcycle.  It was a very nice bike and a little discussion ensued.  Kadizzle recommend a few places to rid to the guy and suggested we might ride together in the morning.  Kadizzle convinced the younger guy to ride up a very steep trail.  The guy looked fit and capable, but as Kadizzle thought about it he might be sending the guy on a dangerous mission.  Kadizzle modified the trip so the guy would do the dangerous part going down instead of up.  In the morning Kadizzle will check to see how the ride went.  Winky is tired and already in bed reading at seven twenty. 

The impeachment is such a sham it is getting hard to listen to.  The evidence is overwhelming. What we need is God to show up.  God should simply say  " I chose this idiot, he is guilty and I am sorry for the whole thing".   Of course the Republicans would shout fake news Trump is innocent.  However, it might help the Democrats win a few votes.

Back at the Earth Module

Back in the peaceful desert, away from the insane border with Mexico.  How nice to sleep in clean air, silence, and uncrowded mountains.  Americans when they get old only want one thing, to be warm.  They don't care if you stack them up like cordwood, just warm.  People work their whole damn life and in the end they get to sit somewhere in a box warm.  Drive around the southwest and look at the concentration camps for old people.  Row upon row of old people in boxes.  Meanwhile empty yachts, and second homes dot the landscape.  What about quality of life?  No other country ignores humans like the United States.  Every other country thinks about healthcare for everyone,  air quality, or vacation for young people.  Not the gold old U.S.   We want to work people until they drop and then put them in a box. 

So we are up early and it looks like a hike in the mountains.  Ken and Rita are back from California, and the crew is ready to go. 

Fun with Gambit

If you have been following this story this morning, Kadizzle mentioned the phone gambit earlier.  Wellk, Shanika wanted some breakfast so Kadizzle went down to the little breakfast room at the hotel. Before he walked in he pretended like he was talking on the phone.  In the breakfast room Kadizzle loudly said into the phone " Be sure and call those crooked senators who are going along with the Trump cover up".   It worked instantly.  Some simple minded goat started pointing to a pin on his coat.  Kadizzle was puzzled and could not make out what the pin was.   What is it?  It turned out to be an American flag.  The goat said That is why we are great, because Trump made us great.  Kadizzle gave the man a loud rant about what a crook Trump was and mentioned that sure America is great when you have to have three jobs to stay alive.  The goat quickly exited.  Trump toys with the simple minded, why can't Kadizzle.  So if you find out Kadizzle has been shot by a right wing goat don't be surprised.

Who Cares?

It is early.  Kadizzle is sitting in one of those pathetic little hotel breakfast rooms.  The room is full of old goats like Kadizzle.  In the background CNN is playing some impeachment crap.  The old goats are half asleep and oblivious.  Kadizzle is tempted to just say at random to an old goat person " What a trial no witnesses".   Once in a rat hotel in West Virginia Kadizzle did something like this and we had a wild political battle on our hands.  These little rat breakfast rooms always have acoustics that amplify everything,  Boing, just got an idea.   Kadizzle could pretend to make a phone call.  Speaking into the phone he could loudly say bad stuff about the trial.  Hmmm,  this would surely fire up the goats. 

Yesterday Kadizzle was in this room with the hotel clerk.  Kadizzle was explaining to her how she gets ripped off by the Republicans.  An old goat nearby heard the conversation, and we were off to the races.  The goat used to work for the railroad and explained how rich guys gave him jobs.  Yep the plantation owners were nice guys that gave black people jobs and housing.  Strangely after talking to the goat for awhile the goat saw the other side of the story.  Goats in general did pretty well. Sadly our children will not have it as good as we did.  This is a prediction.

OK,  Kadizzle just tried to stir up the goats.  A young girl is filling the coffee.  Kadizzle said loudly to her " Did you ever see a trial with no witnesses?".   " It is sad what the Republicans are doing to you young people".   The goats did not stir.   Don 't have my phone, so I cannot try the phone gambit.  May try it later.  The fog is so thick outside.  It matches the fog in the brains of the Republicans.  How can they get away with such a sham.  Imagine being in a house on fire and no one notices the place is burning down around them. 

Not from this planet

Kadizzle has always suspected he is on the wrong planet, but the more he travels, the more he feels he has come to the wrong place.  The insane waste of resources, and the massive self induced stupidity has no explanation. How could you have so much and waste it so effectively? Just back from across the border.  People over there selling and making absolute crap. People who should be making roads and houses are making colorful fribles.  Total insanity.  Back here in the U.S. we allow one percent of the people to walk off with everything and act like nothing is wrong.  Kadizzle is not from this planet, wants no part of this insanity.  Women with little children begging for money while the rich piss away money on tummy tucks.  You have to be kidding.  We cannot piss away the oil, the gas, the planet fast enough.  Fifty million cars and trucks running around in circles delivering water.  Look in the grocery store at flavored water on the shelves.  Insanity.  Moving around flavored water. 

Another Planet

We just got back from another planet. Planet Mexico is about ten minutes from here.  Kadiizzle gave away a lot of money today. How can you resist giving beautiful Mexican children money?  They need the shit, Kadizzle has plenty.  What  a strange planet Mexico is.  Everyone is selling fribbles, worthless shit to stay alive. Total insanity is all you can feel when you cross the border into the land of dental works, glasses, and cheap drugs.  What in the hell is going on?  Do you need some nonsensical Mexican crap, some glasses or your teeth fixed?  Shanika and Kadizzle just got back from Mexico.. We ate and payed to hear the music we wanted.  We drank margaritas and Shanika said his was worse than mule piss.  Anyway we are back in A mer ric ca.  Half buzzed and about to get up to date on impeaching the rat.

Yes, but the stock market

Here we sit.  Kadizzle and Shanika in the town of Yuma.  Thousands of upon thousands of people living rat style.  The great American retirement.  As long as you are warm hell is not that bad.  At this little sorrowful hotel Kadizzle engaged a Canadian in conversation. The old guy was smoking a cigar in front of his room.  Kadizzle thought he would test the political mind set of they guy since he was from Canada.  What do you think of the president Kadizzle asked.  Kadizzle pointed to his head to indicate Trump is nuts.  The guys said " He is not very presidential, but look at the stock market".  That sums it up.  What if six million Jews get killed?  No problem in Germany if the markets were doing well. 

Drive through Yuma and ask exactly who benefits from the stock market.  You can see thousands scraping by on social security only hoping to be warm.  Last night Kadizzle read about China in the NYT.  By every measure we are falling behind most modern countries, but the stock market is doing well even though the bridges are falling down.

To Yuma

Shanika is coming down from North Dakota to have his teeth fixed.  In order to have the vast savings we will have to cross the border. Very strange country we live in where you leave it to get drugs and your teeth fixed. Supposedly the Mexican dentist can put a cap on a tooth for $200 while in Hazen it is one thousand two hundred.  This means you can take a plane to warm weather have your tooth fixed and put some money in your pocket.

Insurance companies are parasites no other countries put up with.  Kadizzle has said it many times that insurance companies operate exactly like Las Vegas.  Just take some of the money as it goes by.  Insurance companies add nothing to the pot, they simply take.  Imagine if you took all the money tied up in insurance companies shuffling plus the billions they pay CEOs.   Every other modern country has realized insurance companies are a fraud.  Their whole business model is not to pay.

Even though he had a lot of pictures taken with himself

The Ride

The sky was as clear as a mountain stream and the temperature was perfect for the journey back into the mountains that surround us.  Kadizzle took off yesterday for one of the best motorcycle rides ever.  The other day while out with Helen, Kadizzle told himself he would like to come back and enjoy the road the Forest Service had just graded with their bulldozer.  Only a bulldozer could hand such a road.  Even after being freshly graded the road was a real challenge.  Of course that is what created a lot of the enjoyment.  The road was like an artery that wound it's way miles into an area that few get to see.  After a rain or two it will be impossible again to get there. 

On the first part of the trip Kadizzle encountered Cindy and Shawn on horseback.  At the same time all in the same spot was a singler hiker.   Kadizzle talked to the horse back riders for a while and had a nice talk with the hiker on the way back.  At the very end of the road are two crystal clear ponds and somewhat of a meadow.  The location would be such a nice place to camp.  A 360 degree view of splendor surrounds the ponds.  Often in big cities Kadizzle thinks humans are over running the planet.  They are, but these vast wilderness areas are reassuring.  There are places in Arizona, Utah, and the rest of the southwest that are extremely remote.  Even West Virginia and North Dakota have areas most people are incapable of getting to.  This is a good thing and visiting these areas is refreshing.

A letter from the Lickspittle

Dear Michael,

      Thank you for contacting me to express your views regarding the most recent push by Democrats to impeach President Trump. I appreciate hearing from you. 

     On September 24, 2019, Democrats in the House of Representatives began an impeachment inquiry into President Trump based on a July 25, 2019, phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Zelensky. In a remarkable display of transparency and openness, President Trump released the transcript of the phone call he had with President Zelensky for the public to read and review. Having read the transcript, I see no evidence of an impeachable offense. 

     While I may become a juror if the House continues to double down on its nonsensical, partisan impeachment crusade, I will not shirk my responsibility to call out the horrible handling of this process. The impeachment rationale of House Democrats is built on selective leaks and fabricated quotes, all designed to twist public opinion of President Trump while denying him the basic right to due process. The choice to follow an impeachment narrative instead of the facts is deceptive, wrong, and divisive. As House Democrats continue to indulge their impeachment obsession, Republicans will continue to do the work of the American people like passing the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), lowering prescription drug prices, supporting our troops, and securing our nation's Southern border. Be assured, I will continue to closely monitor this process and provide you a thorough update when it comes to conclusion. 

       Again, thank you for contacting me. Please know I value your input as I serve you in the United States Senate. To receive the most up-to-date information on my positions, I encourage you to sign up for my email newsletter at cramer.senate.gov.

Save the barf bag you will need it.

Yesterday Kadizzle called the offices of Hoeven, and Cramer to do his civic duty.  Cramer sent a letter back by email explaining how Trump had the perfect conversation when he extorted the Ukraine.  Cramer's willingness to be a stooge for Trump is just sickening.

Today the sun is appearing in all it's glory.   Should be a laundry day.  The Forest Service provides us with a washer dryer set up in the campground.  Perhaps there will be an adventure of some sort today.  Winky wants to ride bikes down the Salt River.  Kadizzle is thinking about a long motorcycle on the road they just graded.  Both the Kadizzles slept in and got a nice topper.  A topper is when you go back to sleep and top off the tank.

Fog, thick fog in the desert

In our many years in the desert we have never experienced a thick fog like today.   Visibility is just a couple hundred feet.  The fog is educational.  It is the perfect way to experience the inside of a Republicans mind.  Your vision is limited.  The things you can know are few,  and you think there is nothing more to know.  This would be a great addition to the impeachment trial.  Since there will be no witnesses why not use fog machines to obliterate everything?  A good impeachment should be conducted in the fog with everyone wearing earplugs.  Hell why not turn the lights out.  Everyone could sit in a dark room  for an hour then walk out and proclaim Trump obviously did nothing wrong.

Back to local news.  Kadizzle wrote an article for the Globe Miami Times about our trail crew and it made the front page.  A trail article may be a regular feature.  The trail crew spent yesterday cleaning up brush and burning it in the campground.  Kadizzle had fun using the little four wheel tractor to smash the dead trees that were left from the fire a year ago.

The Prayer

If religion is actually doing some good perhaps Kadizzle does not mind it, but rarely is that the case.  Today Kadizzle was thinking about some of his non believer friends.  One dear friend used to call himself an orthodox atheist.  Kadizzle is not an atheist, he is an agnostic.  Most people are clueless about the difference.  It is pretty easy.  Agnostics admit what they don't know.  If there is a god who believes in slavery, starvation, war,  TV evangelist, and Donald Trump Kadizzle does not want to believe in him even if he does exist.  Now,  onto today's subject.

The Hazen City Commission has taken on the concept of praying before every commission meeting.  This seems like some of the Trump tricks to play on the weak minded.  Now what if.  What if Kadizzle showed up and insisted that he be allowed to give the prayer.  Here is the prayer.

Dear God. 
If you can make Donald Trump president you can give him cancer of the rectum.  I beseech thee to see fit to do so. Oh God, the God that so many times destroyed whole groups of people innocent and guilty alike please destroy the Republicans.  God please give our commissioners the courage to stand up against all the evil our president and the Republican Party has brought down upon us.  Dear God remove the curse of Fox News and ignorance from our fellow man.  In the name of tax breaks, and tax free religion we ask this in your name.  Will the God that so much has favored the rich bestow a few blessings on the rest of us.
Amen.

Call Hoeven, Call Cramer Impeach the Rat

Science in the Forest

Kadizzle set off on a new venture yesterday.  Helen is part of the range management group.  Kadizzle was to assist her finding places where the forest was being measured.  The way this works is we trie to find a spot out in the middle of nowhere that is used to check on the vegetation.   Twenty five years ago someone went out and took pictures from specific spots.  With GPS ideally we can find the spot and compare the old pictures to the current view and then take new pictures.  This will provide a history of how the vegetation is evolving.  It is not an easy process finding the spots even with a GPS because you have to figure out how to get close to the spot by road.  Some of the roads are old, hardly visible, hardly usable, and treacherous.  We managed to find the first couple places fairly easy because we had a GPS mark.  Our last attempt failed.  We were looking for a spot in a remote area and all we had was a poorly marked contour map, and the photos.  After hiking around for about two and a half hours we had to give up.  To be successful you have to stand where you can see the exact scene in about six or eight photos.  We could not match any point that would give us the view of the photos.  May have to try again.   Fortunately the Forest Service road crew was working on the road we had to use.  If not for the bulldozer we never would have even got close to the area.   There are millions of acres in the Tonto National Forest,  Kadizzle has spent years exploring the area and is always amazed when a new area is reached. 

Of course we have to weave a little politics into this.   An incredible amount of research and work has gone into managing the environment.  Trump has managed to make so much of this work useless as he does everything in his power to destroy the climate.

What is Wrong?

Kadizzle drove the trail crew up to Cottonwood trail.  He would pick them up later in the day after they hiked seven miles at the horse camp.  Meanwhile Kadizzle patched some holes in another trail and tried to mow some grass with the brush hog.  The brush hog sheared a pin so Kadizzle went over to the work center to get a bolt. 

At the work center Steve and another guy were welding.  All the dumpsters have to be converted to a new system because a new garbage truck is coming.  Now to the point.  Here are two men welding.  If someone had to pay these two men to weld it would easily cost one hundred dollars per hour for each man, but no.  These men are working for free because basically the Forest Service cannot operate without volunteers.  Retired people who are electricians, mechanics, and all sorts of other skilled people volunteer their labor.  Meanwhile the mentally ill president spends over a hundred million dollars golfing at tax payers expense.  What in the hell is wrong with this country?  The secretary of education has a forty million dollar yacht and is doing her best to destroy education.  No one cares.  The Kadizzles sit in the most incredible collection of outdoor facilities that are crumbling for lack of maintenance, and the military pisses away money like rain from the sky.  It is just plain frustrating. 

At the end of the day Kadizzle waited at the horse camp to pick up the trail crew.  Dusty and Cindy were cleaning up the brush there.   Dusty had a big scratch on his arm from the brush that was bleeding pretty well.  Kadizzle gave him some hand sanitizer to clean his wound.   The work they were doing was a great donation.  Day after day people sacrifice so we can have some nice things in this country and a bunch of rich assholes want more tax breaks.  What in the hell is wrong with this country led by the biggist bunghole ever?  President bunghole is undoing every environmental protection he can get his hands on. 

Platform Mounds

Rita, Ken, Winky, and Kadizzle took off to explore the platform mounds on the other side of the Salt River.  Kadizzle never loses the joy of finding pot shards.  It is like Indian golf.  You walk around and spot little pieces of six hundred year old pottery.  Instead of approaching a golf green you find an ancient site.  If the pot shard is there, then someone was there hundreds of years ago.  Winky found a lot of black on white pottery shards which are rare, and also we found some black on red.  The natives in this area built these large square mounds of earth that apparently had some rooms on them.  One thing Kadizzle found unusual was a strait line trail leading to the platform mound.  All along the trail were pot shards.  There also seemed to be many irrigation ditches.  It appeared the ancient people were channelling water to a catchment basin.  The day was perfect temperature and crystal clear.

It is very early and dark today the crew is going up on the mountain to hike Cottonwood Trail.  Kadizzle has been assigned the job of writing articles for the local paper about the trails. The first article has already been published in the Globe newspaper.

In the background the world is proceeding NPR.  The level of insanity with Trump has reached well beyond the point of reality.  The worthless gutless people who represent North Dakota still grate on Kadizzles mind.  Such pathetic lickspittles. 

When did you notice?

When did you notice you weren't like the rest of us?  Maybe you could ask a Trump supporter.  Do people notice when they are ignorant?  Probably they do and Trump defends them, that is why they love him.  Deep down they know they are fools, but who sticks up for fools,  the Donald. So much industry is devoted to bilking fools.  You have the stump preachers making millions, the goof on KFYR radio selling magic pillows,  all the vitamin scams,  but no one does it like politicians.  Stupid people like simple explanations.  If you want to bilk a simple minded person keep it simple.  One pill is all it takes, or this will solve all your problems, or it is not your fault, the poor people are eating your lunch.  Churches were the first business to realize how easy it is to sell fantasy.  Scare people about hell then tell them for a small donation they can avoid hell.   Trump tells all the dolts they will be rich after trickle down works, and of course once they are rich they don't want to pay taxes.  Yes, and the Mexicans are coming for your jobs and money.  Why make it complicated? You have to admire people who put together elaborate cons, but simple cons work just fine.  You can always get a dolt to vote with the magic of guns, abortion, welfare, and tax breaks.  Why make it complicated?

Magic. Republicans cannot read the chart below and figure out why our country is failing

The United States is the only country without healthcare on this list.

Unusual Object

Kadizzle and Jasper Littlebottom took a ride on the motorcycle up a nearby dirt road.  The road led to an Indian site we have visited many times.  Jasper found some nice pot shards and Kadizzle dropped down over the hill from the site.  It appeared there may have been a spring or some sort of source for water.  While scavenging around Kadizzle noticed some little white bone like thing.  Picking it up it appeared to have been worked on by a human.  It had a bone like structure.  Not clear what it is or was.  There is a tiny hole drilled in the thing that makes it seem as if it may have been an earing.  Today Winky is going to turn it over to the authorities and see if they can figure out what it was.  While were were out exploring Kadizzle noticed a long white haired old man.  Engaging him in conversation he showed us what he thought was a small pit house.  Also we discussed a site on the other side of the river that we may try to visit today. 

Seems like every time Kadizzle explores Indian sites he lays in bed that same night and speculates about how these people lived.  One puzzle is the pottery.  Pottery shards are all over Arizona and Kadizzle loves finding them.  The strange mystery is the consistent quality.  Almost all the potter is of the exact same thickness and quality.  It just seems strange that it all almost seems like if was factory made.  Hod did these people make this pottery? Another strange thing is the sand content.  You would think the pottery would be more clay than sand, but that is not the case.  Also the finish of the pottery is so consistent and always of the same thickness.  Winky is over there reading about where we are going today.  She found something about cotton grown by the ancients.  Supposedly it was a medium of exchange.  Back to the pottery.  These people must have had to move water about a lot.  It stands to reason they used pots to do it.  Another possibility is they made water bags from animals stomachs.  The question always comes up at every Indian site, where were they getting water.  Sometimes it is obvious, and many times it is a puzzle.  If you are going to build a dwelling you are going to need a steady supply of water.  How far is it practical to walk for water.  That leads to the next big question.  When these people were around was the climate different? Was there more water? These puzzles are what makes the exploration interesting.

Sinéad Lohan - To Ramona

To Ramona

OK, boys and girls this is your mission.  I will post the song that goes with these lyrics. You read the lyrics while the song plays, got it.  Very well done.  The song will appear above here

Ramona, come closer
Shut softly your watery eyes
The pangs of your sadness
Will pass as your senses will rise
For the flowers of the city
Though breathlike, get deathlike sometimes
And there's no use in tryin'
To deal with the dyin'
Though I cannot explain that in lines

Your cracked country lips
I still wish to kiss
As to be under the strength of your skin
Your magnetic movements
Still capture the minutes I'm in
But it grieves my heart, love
To see you tryin' to be a part of
A world that just don't exist
It's all just a dream, babe
A vacuum, a scheme, babe
That sucks you into feelin' like this

I can see that your head
Has been twisted and fed
With worthless foam from the mouth
I can tell you are torn
Between stayin' and returnin'
Back to the South
You've been fooled into thinking
That the finishin' end is at hand
Yet there's no one to beat you
No one t' defeat you
'Cept the thoughts of yourself feeling bad

I've heard you say many times
That you're better than no one
And no one is better than you
If you really believe that
You know you have
Nothing to win and nothing to lose
From fixtures and forces and friends
Your sorrow does stem
That hype you and type you
Making you feel
That you gotta be exactly like them

I'd forever talk to you
But soon my words
Would turn into a meaningless ring
For deep in my heart
I know there is no help I can bring
Everything passes
Everything changes
Just do what you think you should do
And someday maybe
Who knows, baby
I'll come and be cryin' to you

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Bob Dylan

To Ramona lyrics © Bob Dylan Music Co.

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Loosening the ropes ( All my thoughts summed up in a language you can understand)

The Magic Time

January 14th the Winkle turns 70,  until Kadizzle's birthday about two months later both of us will be 70.  How did we get this old, where did all the time go, how did it go so quickly?  It is scary we are in the last quarter, on the twenty yard line.  While technology has grown at an amazing pace so has stupidity.  No one would ever have predicted an idiot like Trump would be destroying the country in our senior years.  Things that should have become much better have become much worse.  We will not live forever, but it would be fun to see how the big game ends.  Will people awaken?  Will the dumbing down continue.  If our next election results in Trump winning it will be a sure sign we are moving quickly toward the dark ages.  Already we are well on our way to being a third world county.  As a nation we are creating peasants at an alarming rate.  Trump lies like rain falls from the sky and no one notices.  Our tax structure punishes work and rewards inheritance.  Reality is optional.  Life has been good to Winky and Kadizzle, but it is the children, and their children that are the concern.  Shootings in school,  racism boiling,  and ignorance the coin of the realm.  If this all has not cheered you up then think about Trump doing his best to advance the destruction of the climate and the Earth.   Now the good news.  The sun is shining in the window and we probably will live to the end of the day.

Nothing to see here

A trial without witnesses.  Kadizzle was a municipal judge for 25 years.  One of the first things Kadizzle had to do was teach the police that just because they arrest someone that does not mean the person is guilty.  Kadizzle once heard the story of a judge who said to a person in front of his court " If you didn't do it, then why did the police arrest you?".   This is the logic of the idiots we call Republicans. If God chose Trump how could you possibly question what Trump does.  The idea of having a trial without witnesses is so absurd.  Why not boats without water, or  skis without snow.  The idea is so absurd you would think it would hit the Hoopleheads concrete heads with a little shock.  No, the Hoopleheads bought trickle down, grabbing women's crotches, and the other 13, 000 lies Trump has racked up so far.  The mere fact that anyone would propose such a obviously flawed idea and consider it seriously really says a lot about the state our country has reached.

Kadizzle reels himself in about the level of stupidity by looking at how religion has been sold.  People are told about dead people rising, disappearing, reappearing, and voices from heaven.  If . you can sell people on heaven and hell you can surely sell them on trials with no witnesses.  Why not just throw some dice?

Bulletin, bulletin.  Winky just headed out to the executive suite.  Upon opening the Earth Module door she spotted a javelina in the yard.  Kadizzle caught hell because the Winkle claims he has invited the forest pigs in by burning garbage.  Holly smokes he is right at the door.  I am within three feet of him looking out the window.  He looks just like Trump and acts a lot like him also.  If Winkle comes back and he jumps out she may need another trip to the executive suite.  Whoa, just saw Winky run by chasing the pig away.  We have all kinds of birds and now this pet pig.  Here she comes. Kadizzle is going to catch hell. Here goes.  " Now we have a javalina hanging around the camper, that's perfect" .   Wink thinks Kadizzle is a pig, now there are two of us. 

No one believes anything

Who shot down the plane?  Everyone is cooking up a theory.  Russia has successfully elected Donald Trump and the same Russia has Americans at the point where they feel no news sources can be trusted. Trump and his incessant lying is such a prize for the Russians.  What could be better than the Trump cult to create mass ignorance in our country.  Stirring up idiots has historically been a scary thing.  Look back at the inquisitions, witch trials, McCarthy,  and none of it ended well.  There is a long article in the New York Times today about how Russia is going to hack our next election.  Russian knows how easy it is to play on our dolts.  Over and over you see statistics that one third of Americans are certified dolts.  Look at the stump preachers that bilk old ladies, and simple minded evangelicals. The stump preachers know how to milk idiocy.  Look at the lottery, again milking idiocy.  Now do some simple math.  If the Republicans automatically own one third of the population by getting the dolts for free, then all they need is a small margin of milder idiots to get them up to forty percent.  After they have forty percent then you add the greed dogs.  The greed dogs are those near the top who are awash in money.  If the greed dogs make up ten percent of the vote do the math.  Add up the dolts, the greed dogs and the mild idiots and the Republicans get over fifty percent.  One thing that has saved us in the past was that many of the dolts did not vote.  There is hope.  If the dolts are suffering they may wake up.  We are entering a very scary election.  Too many people are asleep at the wheel.  As long as enough people are fat and happy it goes in favor of the Republicans. After reading the NYT article Kadizzle fears the Russians may succeed.  What the Russians want is chaos.  Who better to create chaos than Donald Trump?

The Best Answer ever, not by Kadizzle

An anguished question from a Trump supporter: ‘Why do liberals think Trump supporters are stupid?’

The serious answer: Here’s what we really think about Trump supporters - the rich, the poor, the malignant and the innocently well-meaning, the ones who think and the ones who don't...

That when you saw a man who had owned a fraudulent University, intent on scamming poor people, you thought "Fine."

That when you saw a man who had made it his business practice to stiff his creditors, you said, "Okay."

That when you heard him proudly brag about his own history of sexual abuse, you said, "No problem."

That when he made up stories about seeing Muslim-Americans in the thousands cheering the destruction of the World Trade Center, you said, "Not an issue."

That when you saw him brag that he could shoot a man on Fifth Avenue and you wouldn't care, you chirped, "He sure knows me."

That when you heard him illustrate his own character by telling that cute story about the elderly guest bleeding on the floor at his country club, the story about how he turned his back and how it was all an imposition on him, you said, "That's cool!"

That when you saw him mock the disabled, you thought it was the funniest thing you ever saw.

That when you heard him brag that he doesn't read books, you said, "Well, who has time?"

That when the Central Park Five were compensated as innocent men convicted of a crime they didn't commit, and he angrily said that they should still be in prison, you said, "That makes sense."

That when you heard him tell his supporters to beat up protesters and that he would hire attorneys, you thought, "Yes!"

That when you heard him tell one rally to confiscate a man's coat before throwing him out into the freezing cold, you said, "What a great guy!"

That you have watched the parade of neo-Nazis and white supremacists with whom he curries favor, while refusing to condemn outright Nazis, and you have said, "Thumbs up!"

That you hear him unable to talk to foreign dignitaries without insulting their countries and demanding that they praise his electoral win, you said, "That's the way I want my President to be."

That you have watched him remove expertise from all layers of government in favor of people who make money off of eliminating protections in the industries they're supposed to be regulating and you have said, "What a genius!"

That you have heard him continue to profit from his businesses, in part by leveraging his position as President, to the point of overcharging the Secret Service for space in the properties he owns, and you have said, "That's smart!"

That you have heard him say that it was difficult to help Puerto Rico because it was in the middle of water and you have said, "That makes sense."

That you have seen him start fights with every country from Canada to New Zealand while praising Russia and quote, "falling in love" with the dictator of North Korea, and you have said, "That's statesmanship!"

That Trump separated children from their families and put them in cages, managed to lose track of 1500 kids, has opened a tent city incarceration camp in the desert in Texas - he explains that they’re just “animals” - and you say, “Well, OK then.”

That you have witnessed all the thousand and one other manifestations of corruption and low moral character and outright animalistic rudeness and contempt for you, the working American voter, and you still show up grinning and wearing your MAGA hats and threatening to beat up anybody who says otherwise.

What you don't get, Trump supporters in 2019, is that succumbing to frustration and thinking of you as stupid may be wrong and unhelpful, but it's also...hear me...charitable.

Because if you're NOT stupid, we must turn to other explanations, and most of them are less flattering.

Wake up to insanity.

Winky pops out of bed like a spring.  Kadizzle on the other hand tries to awake the elephant like body and lumber in to the coffee.  Right away Winkle turns on NPR radio.  The Arizona news has a little segment about the people who have drowned trying to cross Tonto Creek near where we camp.  Eight people have drowned trying to cross the creek and it would cost twenty million to build a bridge.  It seems insane it would take that much to cross the little desert creek.   However,  they cannot come up with the money.  This is in a country that would spend twenty million for one missile.  Not long after the news report Kadizzle saw a chart showing that well over half of all tax dollars go to the military. We are filthy rich, but we piss away the money on military toys.  The middle east fiasco has already cost over a trillion dollar, but who cares.  It is like the tatoo fools.  You see these busted flat people everywhere with thousands of dollars of ink inserted in their skin.  They have credit card debt that would kill a mule and cannot figure out why they are broke.  Our country is falling apart while we shove money to the rich and the military and the Red Hat dolts are clueless.

The Kadizzles are here in Arizona volunteering for the Forest Service.  Every day we fight back the brush that is overwhelming the camp grounds and trails.  A lot of the equipment is in poor shape, and funds are certainly lacking.  Yesterday as Kadizzle struggled with a gas weed whacker  helicopters from the military kept buzzing back and forth as they played drop the guy in the lake.  Hundreds of thousands of dollars were being pissed away overhead as the once wonderful park underneath falls apart and is overtaken by weeds and deterioration.  This park cost forty million dollars in 1990, but the facilities cannot be maintained for lack of funds.  Last night Kadizzle came across an interesting video about how castles were built.  Hundreds of years ago money was pissed away building a castle while the people around the castle lived in shacks.  Nothing has changed except the peasants get to wear Red Hats.  How stupid can people be? Tune in to KFYR radio or Fox News for the answer.

Stars Gleamin

Kadizzle stepped out to get his jacket out of the truck.  The stars are gleaming.  This must be a sign of a nice day.  Winky is hopping around as usual getting ready to hike with the trail gang.  Kadizzle has been ordered by the supreme commander to wash the sheets and laundry. 

Someone needs to hold a class on missle attacks for Iran.   How can you lob twelve missiles into a military base and not hurt anyone? Did the missiles have rubber tips?   Donald will give some spin today.  Will he fire out a few lies?   Ya, sure, ya betcha.

Kadizzle and Winky are fighting the evil epizootic that has invaded our lungs.  NPR is on in the background saying the missiles hurt no one.  It appears war can be safer.  If Iran has developed a ballistic missile that is harmless it could be a great leap forward for peace.  Styrofoam bullets may be next.

So nice to get impeachment off out minds.  Impeachment was getting boring, and war is so much more fun.  Do you want to watch some old goat bang a gavel or would you rather see some nice bombs blow people to Jesus?  Trump knows how to put on a show, give him credit.  Always remember he is the best, the greatest, and the most stable genius. 

Now Iraq is telling us to leave.  Imagine that.  The fire department shows up and you ask them to leave.  It does make some sense if the fire department was going to spray your house with gas.  Imagine the billions, actually trillions wasted in the silly wars to prop up Bush's ego, and now Trump's.  What kind of idiots are we?  We could have roads, schools, health care, child care, and on it goes, but no we want tanks and guns.

Morning at the Executive Suite

A brisk walk down to the executive suite (also known as the outhouse).  The sun is not up, but the horizon is starting to glow.  Sitting on the throne with the door open Kadizzle can hear coyotes so close an attack may be imminent.  The noise they animals make is amazing, and there are a lot of them around here.

In the background NPR is playing, and Kadizzle is sitting in the Earth Module alone.  Jasper Littlebottom has already taken off with the trail crew.  Kadizzle is going to stay back and cut brush here with the tractor, but the rest of the mountain goats are going up the Chillicot trail. 

Cheech is going to have a little boy baby for grandpa in a little over a month.  The women in the family had misplaced the pattern for boys, but Cheech being a designer has managed to produce the first male offspring after two girls.  Girls are fun, and Sylvie and Evie have been great playmates, but old Kadizzle can see himself having some fun with a boy.  At 70 Kadizzle realizes his boy playmate will be five when Kadizzle is 75.  The world is not fair.  Trump has proven that over and over.

That triggered a rant.  How illogical can Republicans be?  They want to have a trial with no witnesses.  Let's have a play with no actors.  Are these greedy rats nuts?  How can you call something a trial with no witnesses, and no one allowed to present evidence?  The mind of a Republican must be special with all the logic circuits removed.  God chose Trump and trying him would be like trying Jesus.  Trump is perfect, he has the best words, the best lies, and is a stable genius. 

Get Ready

Here at camp Kokamonga Winky and Kadizzle are sitting in glorious sunshine.  One problem, the buzzing of military helicopters.  Lake Roosevelt is often used for practicing soldiers with helicopters, but all of a sudden the practicing has picked up.  Hmmm, does this have anything to do with Donald's new war on Iran and the middle class?  Always amazing to be here on the ground watching the infrastructure of the National Parks, and National Forest falling apart while hundreds of thousands of dollars fly out the exhaust of the jets and helicopters overhead.  No money for trails,  supplies,  or salaries.  We work for nothing so money can be freed up for bombs.  What is wrong with this picture.  Oven in New Zealand Kadizzle did not see ONE thing that resembled a military anything.  For that matter saw very few policemen.  But no back here in the land of violence and guns we have military crap going by on the trains, on the highway, in the air, and we always need more, bigger better,  and someone always makes a buck selling it.  It was good old Dwight Eisenhower the Republican who warned us about this insanity.

Anyway Winiky is out there firing up the BBQ for some salmon.  We are fat and happy with plenty to drink so who cares if we have a little distraction war?  Now if it goes nuclear it could ruin the salmon. 

The Epizoodic

Coughing all night with the epizootic can wear you out.  Winky and Kadizzle have both been stricken with the epizootic.  Kadizzle might have got the disease on the plane.  Planes are excellent for spreading disease.  Perhaps the Russians are behind this.  If Iran wanted revenge this cough would be a great way to get it.

Today we go to planet Globe for groceries.  The DNA in Globe was placed in a blender and at the grocery store we will see the results.  Mexicans, Indians, and a mix of miners from all over the world came together in Globe.  Mining towns are always pretty well shot up and have the flavor of boom and bust.  Globe has a huge tailings pile right in the middle of town.  The who town is surrounded by copper mines.  Of course with the mentality that goes with mining the four wheeler guys have to tear up every inch of land that the mine did not.  Cliff likes the weird mix of people and the Kadizzles have found some very good places to eat in Globe.  Globe does seem to do a good job with Halloween, and parades.  All things considered for a place shot up so badly Globe does have some art culture.  Water, gas, and food all have to be gathered.  All of our drinking water comes out of a purification machine at the grocery store.

Things were looking pretty good in the stock market, but old Trumpster will shoot that up with his little war. 

The difference is subtle

Up the hill the old cycle went and soon Kadizzle was closer to God by a couple thousand feet.  The desert forest is different.  The fires from last fall have left a very spottly landscape with some areas burnt, and some still green.  From a distance not much of the fire damage is evident, but one thing for sure is the erosion. Plants do hold back water.  Once the cover is burnt off the water can roar down. On the way up to the steeper parts of the road Kadizzle road up a wash.  It mostly looked the same as always, but looking closer you realized the elevation changed by about three feet.  The fences and gates were wiped out.  The fire seem to have disrupted the wildlife.  Animals are coming closer to people because their homes have been burnt up.  Mountain lions are being reported more and the Javelina seem to have moved closer to the lake.   All in all it was a nice ride on a very nice day.

Attack the Wagon Train

Remember the old westerns when you were a kid?  The Indians were angry and they were going to attack the wagon train.  Up on the hill they sniffed the wagon train below.  Here we sit waiting for the Iranians to attack.  Remember how nervous everyone was as they passed through Indian country?  It was always fun when the wariors streamed down the hill and they circled the wagons.  Trump longs for the day.  Who wants to watch and impeachment when you can watch a wagon train get attacked?

Back in New Zealand they had a lot of one lane bridges.  It had to have been a cost saving effort.  Every one lane bridge in New Zealand could be replaced for the cost of one American Tank.  We like tanks better than bridges.  In a small country with a limited budget you have to spend wisely.  On the other hand when you live in a country of abundance you have all the wars you want plus a nice flat screen TV.

Winky, Kadizzle, and the trail crew scrape to get a few goodies to work with.  The blades on the mower are worn down like baseball bats.  Then the jets fly over, the military jets costing hundreds of thousands of dollars to chase each other down the mountain valleys.   About three seconds of jest time would buy us some new mower blades.  Everyone in New Zealand has health care, but they are a little short on jets.  What are they thinking.

Looks like it will be a very nice day.  Kadizzle make get the motorcycle fired up.  Winky keeps talking about how bad it is up at Peter Bigfoots.  Maybe a trip up there will be in order. 

Winky and Dave get Lost

Today the three of us decided to go for a hike.  Kadizzle, Dave, and Winky.  Kadizzle did not want to go at the pace Winky and Dave love.  Kadizzle likes to mumble walk, that is walk slowly and just enjoy.  Winky  and Dave are of the fire ass school of hiking.  They like to go like the seat of their pants is on fire.  So Kadizzle set off one way to explore an Indian site, and the fire ass gang took off up the mountain.  As all things involving this bunch the planning was extremely poor.  Kadizzle wandered out to the Indian site and was amazed by the size of the rooms. After a great deal of searching Kadizzle did find a nice pottery shard.  Meantime the two beanheads shot up the mountain and got confused.  Kadizzle took a long hike up a short pinnacle and included two naps in the process.  Thinking the simple minded would return to the truck Kadizzle waited and came up with a brilliant idea.  Kadizzle would drive farther toward where the two wandering dolts were hiking.  This did mean there was no phone signal.  Time went on and on.  Kadizzle whistled, blew the truck horn and did what he could to get a response from the dolts.  No luck.  Now it was starting to get dark and the dolts were nowhere to be found.  If the dolts did come back down the road as they should it would be great, but Kadizzle began to suspect the dolts decided to walk all the way back to camp.  What should he do wait in place or assume the dolts would come back a different way or go back towards camp.  As things began to look hopeless Kadizzle drove down the mountain until he got a phone signal.  Sure enough the dolts got mixed up and came down a valley on the other side of the mountain by the Cliff Dwelling National Monument.  Fortunately it all worked out in general.  It could have been Kadizzle sitting there until dark waiting for the wandering dolts.  When Kadizzle finally picked up the dolts on the highway walking toward camp they looked like two chimney sweeps.  The dolts had to go through a burn area and at one point they must have crawled under a fence.  They were covered in soot and ash.  After everyone showered we had supper at the marina.  Happy New Year.

War

Kadizzle recalls speaking with a German couple in New Zealand at Arthur's Pass.  Kadizzle said Americans had the mistaken idea that we were number one at everything.  She replied you are number one at making war.  So Trump wants to get our mind off impeachment and onto something much more fun, a good war.  As Americans it is always nice to have our wars in someone elese's front yard.

Old Winky made some good French toast this morning and it looks like the day is off to a fairly good start.  Winky says she is going to Globe to get some groceries.  Kadizzle may work with Dave and get the big mower going.  Looks like a sunny day.  Rita and Ken took off on a road trip to explore clear down to Bisbee.

Well as longa as everyone is fat and happy who cares about drone strikes?  We have become a country of screen watchers.  Stare at your phone, your computer, or your TV.   Not guilty.  Well that is a lie, Kadizzle is just about as bad as the rest.  Winky is up in the bedroom explaining to Kadizzle we cannot trust Trump.  What a revelation. Winky swears Trump's new war is just a diversion.  Ya think?  Like Trump said the strike is to stop a war not start one.   Try that with a fire.  Sometimes you can stop a fire with a fire, but sometimes all you have is a bigger fire.  The trick is to start with a good firefighter.  Trump does not fit that description.  Now if you were fighting lies with lies Trump might be an expert.  Go forth and prosper.

Exploding Horse Manure

Winky is sitting over there reading the same NYT story Kadizzle did about Australian wildfires.  Australia's version of Trump who leads the country blames the fires on exploding horse manure.  The Trump mindset has invaded the world.  In every country it seems people are embracing idiocy with a new found love.  Simply give up on science, logic, and reality, and embrace idiocy.  There is no climate change, it is just a problem with exploding horse manure. 

I got mine, the hell with you.  I worked for mine, why can't you get off your ass and work like I did?  You just want to take my money because you are a welfare cheat.  Sound familiar?  Welcome to Republican 101.  If you want to do well in this class you have to be willing to believe.  It is just like religion, it does not need to make any sense, as long as you just believe.  Now this is a warning. This does not work for everything.  If you fall off a cliff, no matter how much you believe you will not be smashed on the ground, you will be.  Some reality you cannot put off.  On the  other hand if you live well and use credit cards to do it,  it will work for awhile, until those nagging credit card companies get wise and cut you off.   Climate change is like that.  You don't need to believe until the water comes up to your knees, your house burns down,  or  the ocean eats your summer home.  Next lesson. Always remember you are a strong self made man.  Don't let the fact daddy gave you a bank or a grocery store confuse you.  Poor people could have banks and grocery stores if they just quit smoking and marrying other poor people.  Write that down.  Don't marry poor people.  Next lesson learn to be afraid.  Someone is trying to get something from you.  Now here are three good choices, your money, your religion, your gun.  If you want to be a good Republican always frame things with the underlying idea people are after your stuff.  People are after your stuff because you took all the stuff, but you did it with kindness in mind so don't be upset.  What should you do?  Build a nice big house, build a wall around it, and get yourself a gun.  If you have any money left over buy a politician. The role of the government is to protect your stuff.  That will be on the quiz.  To protect your stuff the government needs a huge army.   Always remember deficit spending.  If the government goes in debt to protect your tax breaks that is fine, but none of that hand out stuff for the poor.  This will be on the test. 

To summarize.  If you want to be a good Republican always remember the truth is what you make it.  You are a good person that deserves everything you have,  and you would not have that new Tesla if God did not want you to.  Always remember when you see unfortunate people that they caused the problem and you had nothing to do with it.  Keep in mind that your country club gives people jobs. Don't be dismayed that the people you give jobs are ungrateful.  They have no idea how hard you worked on your taxes to get the money to buy your golf club membership.

Astonishing Ignorance

Maybe this is a repeat, but Kadizzle is always amazed when he ask the magic question.  At random ask just about anyone if they know Social Security is not withheld from any dollar you earn over $138,000.  You will find ninety five percent of the people will look at you in astonishment when you tell them high earners do not pay social security.  Your typical wage earner is clueless about the mathematics of saving money.  If you could save seven percent of your salary every year for your working life you would have a very substantial amount of money.  Look at it this way.  Assume the cap on social security was at one hundred thousand dollars.  A person making one hundred thousand dollars would pay seven thousand dollars.  A person making two hundred thousand would only pay seven thousand dollars.  The person with the better paying job would get a bonus of seven thousand dollars.  What sense does this make? None is the answer, but virtually no one except high earners knows this goes on.   If the situation was reversed and people in low income brackets payed less it would make much more sense.  Young people need money for housing, education, childcare, you name it.  So why not make the first 25,ooo taxed at two percent.  The next at five percent, and there after every dollar earned pays seven percent.  If this were the case social security would be flooded with money, we could have health care, and prosperity would rain.  Everyone could retire at sixty two.  Now with the greed dogs in charge Republicans want to abolish social security.  The rich already get a massive break, but they want more.  The Republicans don't want people to know social security is upside down.  What Republicans are proposing is everyone gets less, and everyone works until age 72.   This is greed gone wild for the rich.  Who cares the flat screen tv works,  got a bib pickup truck with shiny wheels, a tattoo, and the fishing boat has gas.  Why would anyone care that they are being robbed by the Republicans?

A Clear sky

Sunshine will spill generously all over the campsite today.  NPR is playing in the background.  Income inequality was just the feature.  People always like to make simple problems complicated.  The answer to income inequality is simple, tax the rich.  Of course the Republican answer is give everyone an equal chance to be rich.  So your daddy gave you a bank, and my daddy gave me some advice.  Is my chance to be well off equal to yours.  The notion is insane.  In hundreds of arguments with greedy people Kadizzle has always heard this from the greed dogs.  If you want a bigger slice of pizza society needs to bake a bigger pizza.  Of course the rich will still get ninety percent of the pizza, but your slice will be bigger.  Why not just cut the pizza up fairly?  It's my pizza and I earned it is the classic Republican response.  You did not earn it.  You stole it off the backs of your employees, the taxpayers, and society.  Quit pretending.

Off to a bad start

The lung congestion has Kadizzle awake.  2020  is about ten minutes away.   The trail gang had a nice prime rib supper at the marina.  Time marches on.  The mind shows signs of getting close to 71, but it is the body that needs a tune up.  Jasper Littlebottom and Ken both fell getting out of bed late at night.  As an old duffer that feeling of imbalance when you wake up to pee.   Kadizzle remembers trying to do a flip at the pool with Sylvie last summer.  The big old lump just does not move like it used to.  Little Joey has run amok.  With the rational it is the holiday season and there should be some reward for having this miserable cough Kadizzle has allowed little Joey free reign.

Yesterday Kadizzle and Dave got the little tractor of the Forest Service going.  We got a lot done on the local trails with the tractor.  For some strange reason the Forest Service likes doing everything by hand and the hard way.  Kadizzle suspected a lot could be done with the tractor, but it took a lot of arm twisting to get management to finally agree.   Kadizzle and Dave put the little scraper blade on the back and graded the trails.  The blade was brand new.  Why they bought it if they had no intention of using it is a mystery, but there are a lot of mysteries.  A very frustrating aspect of working on trails are the rules in wilderness areas.  No mechanized tools are allowed.  This means a tree that could be cut in less than a minute will take an hour of hand sawing.  If only there could just be two or three weeks when one could disturb the wilderness.  The concept is good, but a little reason would go a long way.

Here we are in the Earth Module.  The nights have been cold and two electric heaters run all night.  Winky is sound asleep as Kadizzle sits up to drain the lungs.  May everyone reading this nonsense have a good 2020.  We all need to be thankful for the good friends we have.  Friends and experiences are the essence of life so have lots of good friends, and good experiences.