Review

Hope everyone had a great turkey day, Kadizzle certainly did . Kadizzle comes from a family of nine and a big chunk of the offspring were here. Some Kadizzle has not seen in twenty or thirty years. As for children we had six of the bumkins on hand. This gang has cooks of the highest caliber so the belly swells with food. Plenty of lubricant was also available of the finest quality. All of this took place in a rented deluxe home with a pool. To summarize it was a great holiday. Indeed we can be thankful. Considering the number of relatives in the clan the number of flumpers is small. What is a flumper? A flumper is a fish on land that just flumps around and accomplishes nothing. If you look most families produce a few flumpers somewhere along the line. Every pie does not turn out perfect. No one ever becomes a complete flumper. Everyone has a virtue or two. Then again, who gets to decide? The worst flumper ever was Donald Trump, yet his cult loves him. 

Well the plan today is to pack the tribe into a car and drive to Payson to see the new home. At last it is officially done. When we move in Winky and Kadizzle will welcome guest. Sitting around in the mountains with old friends will be great. If you are reading this you are an old friend. If you get the desire to escape the cold come on down. 

Payson is about five thousand feet or more, but it is not that far from the Mexican border. That means you get a lot of sunshine, snow once in a while, but generally good weather. As to the outdoors, if hiking and mountains are your thing we got em. 

The Sun is Creeping in

 The two little monkeys are up early as usual playing with Megan the mom. Coloring is keeping them occupied. Quinn has become very good at the word grandpa. Evie has already become skilled for her age with coloring. Too much turkey was a disaster for digestion last night and the battle against fire belly took five Tums to put the fire out. With leftovers sitting around this old fat guy is in big trouble. 

Staying in this luxury compound Kadizzle thinks of trail crew member Ken. Ken is color blind. This airbnb is very nicely done, but every item is either black or white with no exceptions. Well there might be some tones of grey, but there is not an once of color. In a strange way it is sort of pleasing. Even the pictures on the wall have no color. 

Peaceful Political

 Gathered for Thanksgiving the family has had endless political discussions. However, everyone is on the liberal spectrum. Consequently the discussions are calm and peaceful. So much is written about political fights breaking out at the dinner table. The massive feast will take place later today. 

Yesterday son in law Sam and Kadizzle went to the grocery store. As we approached the automated checkout area Kadizzle sensed something was amiss. A couple was about to check out with two grocery carts, one was loaded to the brim. Another questionable character was checking out and having trouble with his credit card. It happened that Kadizzle purchased a bottle of gin with one of those locked tops that stores use to keep liquor from being stolen. The attendant at the checkout had to take the gin bottle somewhere to unlock it. After we left the store Sam asked Kadizzle if he noticed the strange couple stealing stuff. Kadizzle did not see it, but suspected they were up to something. While the attendant was away they stuffed things they had not scanned into their bags that had been scanned. Thinking about the incident Kadizzle realized the man with the credit card was in cahoots with the other couple. He had a credit card that was in bad shape, and it looked like it would not work. With the bad credit card he had been distracting the checkout woman earlier while the other couple was stealing. No doubt the store cameras recorded what happened, but they will never catch the people. Nothing taste better than stolen food apparently. 

Who can you kill?

The verdict just came in for the three white men that shot the black jogger. Amazing, they were found guilty. The rules for shooting people need to be refined. It is not clear who you can shoot now. It was a white guy shooting white guys and the jury said that was OK. Police have seemed to be able to shoot black people indiscriminately. Women have a pretty good chance of getting off for shooting husbands. Since we are now a gun toting society we need to get some rules. In the old days duels were very formal. There was a strict protocol for killing someone you had a misunderstanding with. It was all very polite and a referee was present. Can't we go back to the good old days? Sir, you have offended me and I would like to kill you. Can I drive by your house about ten an shoot my AR-15 multiple times into your living room? Well, maybe we could meet at the park, and I could bring a friend and he could count to three and we could each shoot at each other. Not a bad idea. OK, see you at the park tomorrow. That is how the shootings should work. We have lost all decorum. 

Cars are insane

The NYT had an article today suggesting a city give everyone an ebike. Think about the insanity of cars. In a car you are using a six thousand pound car to move a two hundred pound person. It simply makes no sense. Kadizzle was very disappointed he could not bring the ebikes for Thanksgiving. It would be fun to buzz around her on an ebike. In a car is is painful. If cities were designed for ebikes, and tiny electric vehicles think of the savings, narrow streets, cheaper streets, safer streets, less pollution, people would get exercise. The obsession with cars is insane. Kadizzle has put over four thousand miles on his ebike. To go that distance in a car would take 200 gallons of gasoline. At three dollars a gallon that would be 600 dollars, just for gas, but what about tires, oil, and all the other crap? This gets us to Denver where Erin lives. Kadizzle takes the ebike and puts it on the train two blocks away. Once downtown Kadizzle unloads the ebike from the special spot on the train and off he goes, no parking fees, no hassle. Look at the Europeans who ride bikes way more than the lump ass Americans. The Europeans are in much better health. 

Settling in

 It is that time of year with the family when we settle into the lap of luxury. For Thanksgiving we are all gathering in Phoenix. With a heated pool and all the amenities it will be great to be with the children and grandchildren. Laying in groceries was one be task. After purchasing $450 of food yesterday the shoppers will go back for more. 

Kadizzle hates large metropolitan areas. Visiting is fine, but who in the hell would want to live here. The crowded insane traffic, and shopping mall pollution is so depressing. Give me the middle of nowhere any day. In the country you can always go for a walk or a hike. Here you really have noting to do. If you are into music or art, sure you can see some stuff, but everyday? Cities are just plain depressing. To see how run down and poverty stricken the cities have become is sad. Most American cities have no character. Every city is polluted with the same malls, signs, and general mess created by mass consumption. 

The Snoocher Bear, Sylvie, and Fran will be here

The tribe is coming for Thanksgiving. Erin and her family will be here later today. Megan and the magic snoochels will be here on Tuesday. Once a year we live like the one percent with out children. Sunday we move to a luxury house with a heated pool. After living in the Earth Module for a year this will be a big move up. Our new home in Payson is done and just a few bureaucratic hurdles to jump. We will meet Erin and her gang in Payson today to view the new residence. 

Astounding that now shooting protesters is a new Republican sport. The country is paying the price for endorsing the NRA mentality. Recently for about three weeks Kadizzle owned a handgun. Bill was moving out and threw a loaded small handgun in the garbage. Kadizzle fished it out. Kadizzle did not want to have a handgun in his home, so he sold it to the Mexicans working on the sewage dump. The fellow was going to give it to some young girl for self defense. No doubt Kadizzle will be involved in a murder trail. Had the gun stayed in the dumpster who knows what might have happened. It might have fallen into the hands of children. Two things are rising in the world, sea level, and stupidity. 

A sad thing in North Dakota. The people in the legislature that seem to have the ability to think are leaving. North Dakota will end up with a solid mass of idiots running that state. 

Help spread the rumor

This morning Kadizzle contacted one of the complete idiots that is in the North Dakota legislature. The idiocy of the man who is a plumber by trade is absolutely astounding, and should strike fear into any normal person. The plumber said he could have been a scientist, or a general,but chose plumber. So far Kadizzle has talked on the phone to two of these complete dingers. Both of them went to the My Pillow convention in South Dakota. 

Now to the main event. Venting to Dina about this insanity, Dina said she discovered that her pillow was a " My Pillow".  She said she found a microchip in the pillow. You help is needed. Kadizzle wants to play on Dina's idea and spread the rumor that the " My Pillow's " have microchips in them. There is Russian writing on them. When you get the chance, and you know you are talking to a dolt, this is what you say " Did you hear about the woman who found a microchip in her my pillow? Apparently it had Russian writing on it".  Of course if they ask for details use the Republican technique. Say you were told this by a neighbor of the woman.  Add anything you want like the CIA is examining the microchip. The woman was having strange dreams about election fraud. The goal is to see how long it takes to spread a silly story among the Republicans. If anyone can call into Scott Hennen at KFYR and ask " Did you hear about the woman who found a microchip in her My Pillow?" that would be worth 100 Kadizzle bonus points. 

 

Up Early

Kadizzle is up early. Winky is in Sedona on a bike ride expedition. The world is still as crazy when Kadizzle went to sleep. People still believe the most insane things the Republicans can dream up. The people with functioning brains are leaving the North Dakota legislature. What is left is a bin of loonies. The new Republican modus operandi is twist a story, or make one up, use the fabrication to scare the Hoopleheads. Scared Hoopleheads will vote for anything the Republicans propose. It works every time. Trump showed the Republicans how to make the Hoopleheads dance. Hoopleheads love crazy talk. Say anything that makes no sense and it will attract the simple minded. 

The FBI interview

 All the gang sat around the campfire ring including the new neighbors Colleen and Dale. The new neighbors had not met everyone on the trail crew so introductions were in order. Everyone gave a synopsis of their life. What did they do for a living, where did they live, children, education, and so on. Somehow Rita gets these things going. More than once Kadizzle has seen Rita do the FBI interview. She is pretty bold about asking people the details of their life. A lot of times this can be a little messy with deaths, divorces, and maybe even criminal records. It is kind of nice to get it out in the open. You never really know who you are dealing with. Kadizzle remembers once meeting a couple in a van here. It seemed they were down out and maybe broke. It turned out wrong. The guy was a nuclear physicist, and they had a strange way of traveling. For three months they would travel a foreign country, and then they would live in their van for three months. 

So it is up on the mountain today. It will be the first real hike for the trail crew.  The game plan is to go to the Four Peaks trail and try to clear the logs from the trail. This will mean a rope puller, block and tackle, and carrying some heavy stuff into the wild. Kadizzle is not to enthusiastic about hauling the tools. 

Wacking Weeds

 Six old people from age 68 to 75 up in the morning and setting off to fight the brush in the Tonto National Forest. The trails all over the forest don't clean themselves. Nasty thorny bushes grow at amazing speed. Hikers will be cut to shreds if someone does not fight the cat's claw into submission. Volunteers and prisoners are on the front line in the battle. So much of this work has to be done by hand. Throwing the brush off the trail is like handling razor wire. 

Meanwhile the country falls apart while the Republicans make sure the rich are never taxed. There are some groups of young people that work on the trails. The young people are paid a mere pittance, but it does get some city kids out in the wilderness experiencing a different phase of life. For what it cost to give one billionaire a space ride thousands of people could be put to work making the country better for everyone. Who cares? The head of Walmart makes 8,000 dollars an hour. Meanwhile the poor old granny at the door gets 8 dollars an hour. No problem this is capitalism in action. Are we really that stupid? 

Reading the New York Times this morning it is obvious the country is on the wrong track. Republicans will take us toward a Nazi type country very quickly. Manipulating stupid people is a technique the Republicans have perfected. It is all about protecting the rich from taxes. The rich buy all the politicians they want. With the politicians on strings they make them dance. Recently the head of Sanford Health was ousted with a 49 million dollar bonus. Nobody noticed the robbery. This is America, as long as you have gas for the boat and cable tv on the flatscreen who cares? Suffering is the only thing that works. Long ago we had a depression. People got cold, hungry, and were suffering. Those people were on the verge of communism and socialism. Then the smart rich decided it was time to throw some crumbs. So here we go once more toward a peasant revolt. We just don't learn. The world is melting, people are starving, but the tv works, and the fish are biting. 

Don't believe your lying eyes

Last night Kadizzle watched a video explaining why a pendulum would not work in a plane to help you determine up down and sideways. If you had a pendulum in a plain don't believe it is pointing down. Now on the other hand if you see something on Fox News it might also be a good idea not to believe it. The pendulum in the plane is influenced by things you may not be aware of. You also may not be aware of what is influencing the news. What do you believe? Don't believe that skinny guys are the cause of the food shortage. Don't believe poor people are the cause of poverty. Don't believe you can pick up the change falling out of rich peoples pockets and survive. Don't believe anything the Republican Party supports.

What can you believe? Gravity is pretty reliable. Exploiting ignorant people is pretty easy. Psychopaths are good at running for office. If you buy enough lottery tickets you will win the lottery. Who knows what to believe?

Born again with Covid.

North Dakota has a couple of right wing newspaper writers. Scott Hennen is the worst, and the Fargo Forum sponsors a couple of other despicable characters. Now and interesting phenomenon, Rob Port used to be caught up in the right wing fantasy, however a strange thing happened, Port got Covid. Kadizzle had a Jihad going with Port for a long time, but after Covid, Port seemed to become more rational and moved away from his right wing positions. To the amazement of Kadizzle a bad case of Covid seems to have cured Port of a bad case of Fox News mania. Today Port wrote a very good article about the simple mindedness of the Republican Party as it destroys itself with the Trump gang. Kadizzle actually wrote Port and congratulated him on a good job. Never did Kadizzle think such a day would come, but if more Republicans would seek to save their party from the insanity that has infected it, it could be a good thing, and perhaps there could be some good come out of Covid if it is attacking the Republcian brain cells that infested Trump. 

An Ex Eskimo

 Kadizzle used to be Quin the Eskimo living in North Dakota, but since assuming life in Arizona we are dedicated snowbirds. Losing track of the seasons happens when you live in perpetual summer. Friends back in North Dakota are experiencing the usual cold winds, wind chill, and ice with snow. Life in the Earth Module has been full of perfect days. It seems too lucky. Some sort of winter is bound to come. The temperatures are easing down and soon we may need some heat puffs in the morning. 

The trail crew has managed to clear some of the local trails and the ebikes have been humming along. Now we have several sets of ebike buddies in the campground. Kadizzle took a couple of uncoordinated ebike newbees on the trail. Their incompetence was dangerous, and they had some low end bikes that made it worse. If you buy an ebike to go on trails get a good one. Make sure you get tubeless tires. Another important thing is full suspension. It makes a big difference. If on the other hand you want to be a sidewalk putter, a less expensive bike will do.  There are two types of motors. One type is called a hub motor, and the other is a mid drive. Kadizzle suggest the mid drive for serious bikers. The hub drive does have some advantages. Some bike have throttles, and others you must peddle to make the bike move. If you have any questions feel free to call. 

Jason Heitkamp a lying Republican

 Kadizzle was so disgusted with the story about Jason Heitkamp parking a truck at the legislature that had "Fuck Biden" on the tailgate that Kadizzle called Jason Heitkamp. The man is an incredible liar and does it very poorly. First he said it was not his truck, then he said a friend gave him a ride in the truck. He tried various ways to deny he had anything to do with it. The lettering on the back of the truck was very large and it would be hard not to notice, but Heitkamp said he did not know the sign was there.  Another fault of the lie was the truck was in his parking space. Unless his friend comes to spend all day at the legislature why was the truck there all day? 

Too Old to die young

If life is like a candle bright, death must be the wind
You can close your window tight and it still comes flowing in
So I will climb the highest hill and watch the rising sun
And I pray that I don't feel the chill 'til I'm too old to die young
Let me watch my children grow to see what they become

Oh Lord, don't let that cold wind blow 'til I'm too old to die young
Now I have had some dear sweet friends I thought would never die
Now the only thing that's left of them is the teardrops in my eyes
If I could have one wish today and know it would be done
Well, I would say everyone could
Stay 'til they're too old to die young

Let me watch my children grow to see what they become
Oh Lord, don't let that cold wind blow 'til I'm too old to die young
Let me watch my children grow to see what they become

Oh Lord, don't let that cold wind blow 'til I'm too old to die young 

A Dreaming disorder

 Sleeping seems like a job. Kadizzle wakes up exhausted. It seems to be the dreaming. All night long the head buzzes inventing insane plays. Kadizzle wakes up around three and wonders how does this work. The best explanation Kadizzle has been able to find is neurons fire at random. Each neuron seems to be a packet of information. The mind is very good at quickly patching things together. Think about it this way. You take a cup full of little squares, each square has a word on it, you shake it up and throw the words on the table. The job of the mind is to quickly make a story out of the words. Maybe that is what dreaming is. However, the mind is a super computer and can put together an entire play instantly.  How does this work? Every night Kadizzle awakens and tries to figure out how this happens. Sometimes the things that influence the dream can be figured out. One thing about the dreams are they get time so out of synchronization. In the dream Kadizzle is 70 in a play where he should be 20. His mind might be his current mind, but his body is twenty. Is there such thing as a dreaming disorder? One dream a night would be fine, but this goes on all night long. 

Happy Hour

About three in the afternoon happy hour takes place at the Earth Module. Yesterday sounded like a book club meeting. The intellectuals were recommending books to each other. The topics at the meeting are far ranging, whatever you read, Forest Service gossip, politics, and of course story telling. The group has a wide range of backgrounds. One has a PHD, another  masters degree, and Winky and Kadizzle are each 3/4 masters degree. Naturally we are all experts on just about everything. All the attendees are liberals, Republicans are strongly discouraged. Should one show up they are welcome, but will be attacked viciously on their views. The group has people from diverse backgrounds, university teachers, coal miner, banker, forester, warehouse worker, nurse, and investigator. 

A long time ago Kadizzle worked with a wise, but little educated man. Duane had a saying Kadizzle liked. Duane would say " He lives in a small world".  Too many people live in a small world. 

An eight hour day for old people

Jackie is now part of our trail crew. Yesterday we officially went to work. Jackie discovered that in Old hours about four hours is eight hours. All the trail crew is over 71 years old with the oldest 75.  Jackie is the only one under 70. After a hard days work we knocked off about 2:30. Jackie asked if this was a typical day. Yup, an eight hour day after you are 70 is closer to four. The trail work is not easy. We are brushing trails near camp. The worst part are the thorns. When your done it looks like your arm was in a shredder. 

Was interesting seeing the reporting on the "big" rally at the capitol in Bismarck. Realistically the crowd of 3,000 was missing a zero. It was more like 300. When North Dakota holds an idiot's  convention that is considered a good turnout. Kadizzle could sense the right wing nature of the North Dakota newspapers when they tried to puff up the numbers.  

Sad News

You can ask the computer when you will die. The first time Kadizzle did this the computer said he would die at 1:00 P.M. on October 1st of this year. The day came and Winky was disappointed. She had marked on the calendar the date hoping for some relief. Since Kadizzle is still alive he decided to ask the computer again about his time of death. The news was devastating. Kadizzle should already be dead. The program asks about your weight, your drinking habits, your exercise and if you are right or left handed. Not sure what that has to do with living, but maybe left handed people die sooner. Before the program calculated death right to the hour. Now it says there is 0 time left. Kadizzle is literally living on borrowed time according to the computer calculation. Not sure if Kadizzle feels lucky or scared. Well it does offer some opportunities. If someone says they are going to kill Kadizzle he can reply " That is ok I was supposed to be dead a few weeks ago." If anyone says " I wish you were dead", Kadizzle can say, well technically according to the computer I am."  Maybe I am dead and just don't know it. At any rate it removes a big burden knowing you are already dead. They should have a special rate for dead people, just like they do for senior citizens. When they ask how old you are, you can say " I am dead".  How do you prove your dead. Well you will need the internet.  Kadizzle may go back to the computer program and adjust a few things to see if he can eek out another year of life. A little more exercise and less drinking could bring him back to life. 

Well, Kadizzle adjusted his life. He moved to the country, gave himself an average body, changed his outlook from realistic to optimistic, and upped the exercise a little. Good news he is alive again and will die in 2023. To be exact he will live for one year, 45 weeks, six days, five hours, 26 minuters, and it was 14 seconds, but now Kadizzle has used up several minutes. Oh, it is so good to be alive again. Now to figure out when in 2023 Kadizzle will be dead again. Of course there is the nuisance of having to exercise more. Not sure how Winky will take the news. She was kind of looking forward to less of a mess around here. 

Nimblewill

What a surprise today on the NPR website. An article featured Nimblewill. We met him years ago when he hiked through Hazen. He stayed with our friend Myra Axtman. Not so long after we met him in Hazen we were driving down the Columbia Gorge in Washington, there was Nimblewill walking down the road. The man has hiked tens of thousands of miles. When you turn off Fox News, put you gun down, and get off your ass you meet a lot of interesting people.  

The Blasted Coyotes

Howling coyotes kept us up all night. It was continuous. Kadizzle got up at 5:30 and chased them away. On the bike with the spotlight Kadizzle peddled in the dark. Down towards the lake he saw one big guy cross the road. Then he saw a pair of green eyes looking back in the brush. The coyote party will not be tolerated tonight. Usually they howl for a little while then stop. These coyotes have become very used to humans. Once when we were near Death Valley Winky set out some meat to thaw on the steps of the camper. Withing minutes a coyote was there to steal the meat. Kadizzle saw his reflection and chased him away just in time. 

A couple years ago the coyotes could be seen walking by with a domestic dog following. The coyotes tolerated the dog, but made him walk about ten yards behind the pack. It is interesting how animals have become used to humans. A huge Elk walked through the yard of our new home in Payson. Elk wander the city. Somehow animals seem to know when hunting season is. All the fires have forced many of the animals to move closer to humans.  

Crumbling

Each of us has driven by an old building along the interstate. The roof is sagging and the wood is coming apart. That is crumbling. People crumble. Do you have a plan to crumble? Moving close to the kids is one way to crumble. Downsizing is another. Facing the reality of crumbling is part of life. Someday you have to use glasses to read, the volume on everything has to be turned up. Yup, you are crumbling. Holding on to things, and going down stairs slowly, yup crumbling. The brain crumbles to. Forgetting, can't remember names, walking in a room and forgetting why. The reality you just can't do it anymore. Worse yet, you don't want to do it. So do what you can today, and enjoy what you can today.  Tomorrow you may not be able to.  

Where to?

 Here we sit trying to figure out where to go today. Winky wants to go up to Parker Canyon and find out how the canyoneer people get down in there. Kadizzle wants to ride the ebike, but one spoke is broken. So Winky and Jackie are trying to look on the google and figure out where you drop into the miniature Grand Canyon. 

Kadizzle fired off an email into the wild. A writer for the NYT had a nice article on work, and how people are abandoning it. The problem is that work is not shared. About one third of the population does nothing. That means the rest have to do a lot. If we did not work in an infinite greed system no one would have to work more than three days a week. Europeans have figured out working to make someone else rich is insane. In Merica we are having a hard time figuring out we are on the plantation of the rich. 

Rampant Insanity

 Sitting in the car in the parking lot at the grocery store in Payson Kadizzle noticed a degenerate type ride in on a bike. The bearded fellow dismounted the bike and went in the store. When he came out he started yelling obscenities into the sky. Kadizzle was jealous. It seemed like the thing to do. Our frustration with getting into our new home is getting to the point where we may have to yell into the sky. The home is essentially done, but now we are in a bureaucratic battle over a certificate of occupancy. Because of delays the cost overruns are mounting. Now we cannot get hold of the builder. He will not respond to text or phone calls. 

Every day Kadizzle gets more evidence the mental illness and stupidity are thriving. The political manipulation that is seeping into the minds of young people is frightening. Republicans have mastered propaganda. Perhaps the Russians have influenced the Republican party with some great ideas. Whoops, maybe Kadizzle is getting paranoid. Trump was a Russian dream come true, but now you have about six wannabee dingers already elected trying to do the Trump spin for the Hoopleheads. Sadly it seems to be working. Then you have Joe Manchin, a Republican plant in the Democratic party. His little buddy the woman in Arizona who also is helping screw up the one car funeral. 

Yesterday Kadizzle talked with a young guy about 28. He is the contractor building a sewage dump for the Forest Service. Seems like an intelligent guy, but like so many has fallen under the spell of the Fox News spin. People associate with people and the misconceptions spread like wildfire. Everything is now Joe Bidens fault, even thought Trump lit the fire. So many have very little understanding of how the economy or the government functions. This was the country that tackled polio, and won. Just thing about how far backward we have gone. 

Virginia

Making up some nonsense and selling it is an old tradition. Republicans have perfected it. Always add an element of fear. Hell was the original seasoning for selling religion. Republicans turned critical race theory into a best selling paranoid right wing game, and it worked. The Hoopleheads love to be worked up about Mexicans invading, Bill Gates putting microchips in the vaccine, and Hillary running a sex ring. Hoopleheads have Christmas and Halloween all year, terrific fantasies, with some scary stuff. The Hoopleheads are just children that are sixty years old. They can be told pretty much anything and they will believe it if it sounds fun. Churches were the first to figure out you could make up a story and sell it at a profit. Now the rich never want to pay taxes. What do they do? Buy the government and then run the government. The best story the rich have sold the poor is that the poor are the problem. The plantation is dire straits not because the master built a mansion, but because the slaves don't pick the cotton fast enough. Is that hard to understand. Now the good slaves have to understand it is the lazy slaves who will not show up to pick cotton that are causing the problem. Forget about all that wine the master imported from France. The best thing to do is cut back the food ration for the lazy slaves, then they will have to show up and pick cotton. Is that hard to figure out? 

All this nonsense reminds me of my old friend Daryl. Kadizzle for lack of anything better to do would help Daryl deliver the milk to stores around Hazen. One day we had to take some milk to Cenex. Daryl was taking the longest most obtuse route to get there. Daryl was obsessed with gas prices. Kadizzle asked Daryl why he was taking such a long route to the store. Daryl replied " I have expensive gas in the tank, I want to get it out and put cheaper gas in".  This is the way Hoopleheads think. 

Four Peaks Hike

Winky and Jackie are going to hike up the Four Peaks, not Kadizzle. That is a very difficult hike and taking little Joey up there would be a chore. Kadizzle is a bit upset with the Virginia election. It was just too easy for the Republicans to fool the Hoopleheads there. Using the school gambit they got to many soft Democrats to vote Republican. Nonsense about critical race theory abounded, and it worked for the Republicans. Are people that stupid? Yes, yes, yes. This so much reminds Kadizzle of a friend who did very well in business. The friend purchased water with natural hydrogen, and paid dearly to get the natural hydrogen. What she bought was natural stupidity. In case anyone is confused there is no natural hydrogen, natural H2O, or natural element of any sort. Sulfur is always sulfur, iron is always iron, and you cannot grow organic aluminum. However, confusing people and taking advantage of them is so simple. The water with natural hydrogen was selling for $24 for two gallons. A simple question would be " Where do you get natural hydrogen".  Nope if it says it on the box or on the google, then it must be so. Republicans know simple minded people do not ask too many questions. 

Part three. How not to do anything. Yesterday we had a meeting with the boss. The boss explained for some time how to use a chain saw. After informing the trail crew all the safety issues of chain saws the boss said no one was ever to use a chain saw. After the meeting several people wondered why in the hell would we spend time going over chains saw safety then be told never to use one? If you don't want to do anything in the Forest Service Culture there is a secret method for stopping all progress. Kadizzle has suggested he use a little tractor to fix the local trails around the campground. He has done this for two years. The new boss said no. There might be Indian artifacts that could be disturbed. They put the trail in originally with equipment, but we cannot maintain them with equipment. Any improvement that someone does not want to undertake can quickly be stopped by saying " We will have to do an archaeological survey. It works, progress is at a standstill, so that means we never can improve anything. Want to put in a new trail? No, an ancient person could have dropped an arrowhead just about anywhere. OK, so lets do the survey. Oh, that will take reams of paper work and months to get approved. Ok, lets just forget about it. Works every time.  On the other hand if you do want to do something then just sort of ignore the possibility that natives once used the land.  A great example is digging a hole anywhere. Even if a survey is done it only affects the surface. People from three hundred years ago could be buried anywhere. People were not buried on the surface. So even if you do a survey, you have really accomplished nothing. Now, consider Arizona. About 2/3 of the state is federal land. That means a vast area that keeps the Archaeologist in business. 

All of this reminds Kadizzle of the old days back at the coal mine in North Dakota. Someone needs to fund Archaeologist, so the Archaeologist dreamed up the idea that they needed to excabate two Tepee rings on the mine for 70 thousand dollars.  Carefully with tiny shovels, and brushes they uncovered the earth on the first tepee ring. According to them they did not have the money to do the second ring. Code for we can make more money not doing the second ring. So the professionals asked us to use one of the biggest motor graders made to plow the second tepee ring. The huge machine just turned over the soil and if there had been a treasure there was a good chance they never would have found it or it would have been destroyed. This made it pretty clear it the whole thing was just a ploy to make money. The first ring revealed nothing, and the second ring didn't either, but some company made 70k on the deal. 

Candy for the Hoopleheads

Rob Port is a right wing writer for the Fargo Forum. By some remarkable circumstance he got Covid and has become much more liberal. A very strange twist of events. Port wrote and article about the simple minded Republicans that have written over a dozen bills for the special session of the North Dakota legislature. The bills are nothing by candy for the Trump cultist. Bills about Critical Race Theory, Bills about mask freedom, and so on. Anything that will appeal to the most poorly informed conspiracy followers has been proposed as a law. If the Hoopleheads wanted witches outlawed, the Republicans would oblige to get their votes. The pandering is sickening. The special session was called to deal with distributing Covid money. So the Hoopleheads are suggesting laws that witches cannot get Covid money. Soon the Supreme court no doubt will totally destroy the constitution. The down hill slide is here. 

Living in a Fantasy

Each of us lives in a fantasy. The wonderful part is we invent our own fantasy and believe it is reality. We can watch Fox News, or go on the internet and find the information we need to back up our fantasy and prove to ourselves our fantasy is reality. Of course those around us have their own fantasy. So often the fantasies collide. The vaccine is a hoax, that is reality for some, and a fantasy for others. There is no reality except the one you have invented. Often we bump up against reality, and it is a constant problem. However, there are a thousand ways out. " It is god's will".  Worried about dying, just invent an after life. Concerned about global warming, just deny it. Don't like insurrections, ignore it and find a Republican to tell you it was nothing but tourist. See how this works? Now if you are starving or have cancer you may have to adjust your fantasy. Here comes the problem. Not everyone shares your fantasy. This is how wars and religious messes start. Well it is Monday, and Kadizzle has to get to work on his fantasy.