Good vs Evil

 Yesterday Kadizzle participated in a Zoom get together. The group was made up of intelligent people from North Dakota. Yes, there are intelligent people in the Trump state. The question is how do the stupid dominate? Smart people sit back and analyze. To some degree this means they paralyze. North Dakota became a Trump dump because the good people went to gatherings and were polite. When the simple minded made some crazy claim or praised Trump the nice liberal said nothing. Like Covid, stupidity spread unchecked. Now we have a North Dakota run by Trump's minions. The vaccine against stupidity is knowledge. Knowledge works only when you use it. When educated people sit back politely and let the insane theories of Fox News spread, indeed it does spread. If you go to the doctors office and don't ask to take Fox News off the TV, you are part of the problem. It takes courage to speak up. Do it. Silence enables Putin, and all his buddies including Trump. 

China will make a move

 Kadizzle is betting China will move on Taiwan while everyone is looking at Russia invade the Ukraine.  Since Trump split the country into idiots and informed the country has become weakened, and our not so friendly neighbors of China and Russia sense the weakness. Top it off with the fact that so much of our manufacturing relies on China. Once the Chinese cut us off from all our supplies we will be in a mess. 

Delusion is the bread of life, and we are all delusional. It is just a matter of degree. The classic delusion is religion. Then you have so many minor delusions after that. The dictators love to play on our tendency to let them delude us. Trump showed how susceptible we are to a liar. Two friends are here visiting us. Both want to go to the casino. The delusion kicks in. I am going to win. You never do, but it is so easy to foster the delusion. 

People running around in fear. Is it real or a delusion. Kadizzle has never lived a life of fear, but is shocked by the number of people with a gun in the car, alarms, fences, and all the trappings that an attack is eminent. Human's ability to dream up a problem is astounding. Shanika is visiting from North Dakota and he came up with the idea he will not be able to get home because gasoline supplies will vanish. What are the odds in the next week all the gasoline from here to North Dakota will be gone?Why do people do this to themselves? Why do humans invent a scary story then believe it? The immigrants are coming, the black people are taking over, you name it?Strangely the same people are killing themselves with cigarettes, crazy driving, and a host of other real dangers. Scaring people has become an industry. Trump, Fox News, and all the right wing radio are making a fortune spreading scary stories. How do people ignore the obvious. 

This gets us to a cartoon Kadizzle saw a hundred years ago. An old lady is standing at the bottom of a tree with a fireman beside her. Her cat is up in the tree and will not come down. The fireman says to the old lady " How many cat skeletons have you seen in trees?".  The simple test of reality is ignored. God loves us, but he starves us, gives us Covid, Trump, and race wars. Does that make any sense? Nope, but how many people buy into total nonsense?

Wait, wait, Kadizzle just realized as he published the daily nonsense that this story began with a scary story. Kadizzle is a hypocrite. He just wrote a scary story about China. Damn it looks like he is human. 

Here we go

 No better way to start the day than a war in Europe. Trump showed Putin how divided and weak we are. The United States has become so unmanageable because of Republican obstructionism, our country could not manage a one car funeral. In the old days we could put on a good war, but now we cannot get our war supplies because the ships from China that bring us everything are stuck in the harbor unable to unload. Trump and the rich have done to our country what is needed to make Russia great again. As a country we have squandered our legacy. We have become so full of ignorant easily mislead people. Look at us. We are fat and happy .  The grill is out there on the deck, the TV hangs above the fireplace, and Kadizzle has hot coffee. What me worry. Those wars always go away, so lets watch football and wait this one out. 

Stupid had developed a new strain. Kadizzle decided yesterday to take Shanika for an exploratory ride down to the East Verde River. Driving down the scenic road Kadizzle noticed a truck sitting beside the road. The truck had no bumper. Up the steep mountain dirt side road covered with snow something appeared to be laying in the road. Kadizzle was so puzzle he stopped. A tall thin bearded guy came out of the bushes up on the hill by the road. He started to walk toward his truck down by the paved highway. When he got close enough Kadizzle asked him if was having a problem. He said no. Kadizzle then asked him if he had driven up the snow covered dirt road. He said he tried, but could not make it. Kadizzle then asked him if he had wrecked his truck since the from was lacking a bumper, grill and so forth. Nope he said. Then he proceeded to say he had taken the bumper off to use it as a sled. The bumper must have been a big plastic sort of thing. That was what was lying in the road. His wife popped over the hill to get the bumper for another sled ride. Now is there anyone so simple mined that they would remove the bumper from the front of their Truck so they could use it for sled riding? When it comes to pickup trucks stupidity rains supreme. If you want to get a good girlfriend you don't have to have huge antlers like the elk do, but you do need a huge goofy pickup truck. Now a disclaimer. Kadizzle sort of has a huge pickup truck. In anticipation of pulling our large camper Kadizzle went nuts and bought a one ton truck with a long bed. The damn thing is huge, and a nightmare to park. Kadizzle had not modified it to make the classic goof truck, but the goofs still admire it. The simple minded often come up and say "That's a nice truck".  Actually it is a nice truck. It has every bell and whistle imaginable. It even senses when it is could and automatically heats the seat.  It is way more truck than is practical and since we cut short our supposed two year life in the camper, now Kadizzle is stuck with this behemoth. 

Originally the plan was to live for two years without a home. Nope, Winky had to have a house, so after about a year and a few months we now have a house, and two expensive toys. The camper and the truck cost way more than our first house. We the stock market in the tank this seems like great planning. 

Snow in the mountains

There it is, the white fluffy stuff like the childhood snow back in Wheeling, West Virginia. This is the stuff that falls in big flakes and makes everything take on a special look. Haven't seen this in years. Old Shanika is in the other room sleeping. Put him on the Netflix program Inventing Anna. He is addicted. Kadizzle is on a completely different sleep schedule. Kadizzle is in bed very early, sometime even at 7:30 and up at 5:00. On the other hand Old Shanika goest to bed at 2:00 A.M. and wakes up at 10:00.

Found a good Mexican restaurant for the guest. Also had to let Shanika sniff the casino. The machines were like candy to him. Each of lost five dollars to the Apaches and managed to escape before we got seriously scalped. Casinos are the best revenge for the natives, so much easier then robbing a wagon train. 

Very scary what Russia is doing. The bottom fell out of the stock market. Having Trump in the background really makes this an insane moment in history with him praising the ingenuity of Putin. 

Perhaps it was a good thing. Kadizzle lost his facebook account. In an effort to get rid of the adds Kadizzle put his birthday to a date that would make him 15. That was too young and now he is banned. May be like taking alcohol away. 

Visitors

Shanika showed up yesterday. The long drive wore him down. Dina should be here on Friday. Two old North Dakota friends show up and the weather here turns terrible. All the nice sunny warm days are gone and a cold front is here. 

Had to start a range war with the guy who built our house. He refuses to put up the required drop boxes so we can get mail. After dancing around in circles with him the fuse blew yesterday and Kadizzle took on city hall.  Hopefully we will get some action. The builder just does not want to spend the money. He is a young guy and perhaps he is in over his head. A lot of money went into developing this new area. Some unexpected problems came up. To put in the streets it took some actual blasting. Then the fire department made him store water in tanks while the homes were built. To top it off the city made him put in a pump station to increase water pressure. The net result was a much more expensive adventure than anticipated. 

All this is sad, but not a problem we caused. One cannot deal with financial institutions unless you have a physical address. Changing our address from Hazen to Payson has been a nasty process. With the birthday coming up you may want to send gifts or money. If you request the new address it can be sent. Have to be careful terrorist or Republicans don't get it. 

When Kadizzle went to city hall yesterday he was amazed by the security precautions. To enter one had to go through three doors in a row. The last door was locked and a special phone was there so you could call the receptionist. She could peer from her perch and see you before you were let in. Once you got to here it looked like she was in a bullet proof cage. Kadizzle asked why all the security. She explained they had a few nut cases come in and had to call the police on some occasions. That is what you get in Trump country where everyone is armed and government is the enemy. 

Facebook in Heaven

What a surprise, today Kadizzle got a friend request from his sister who has been dead for two years. Why she waited so long is a mystery. Facebook's reach is amazing. Hope she tells my brother, and other sister about the reach of facebook. Kadizzle has not yet honored the request for fear of spam and other strange offers from heaven. However, this does mean Kadizzle could communicate with God, or Jesus or so many others that have gone on. Boy does Kadizzle have some questions of the people up there. Ask God why he made people so many different colors, it sure caused some problems. What about letting kids starve? What about supporting Trump? OK, sister if you still read my blog just post the answers on facebook. Do you get free internet in heaven, of course you do. Ask God about the crooked preachers down here. Say hi to the rest of the family. Oh, by the way find out about hell. Not sure Kadizzle wants to go to Hell if Trump is there. Another thing, ask God if he could send another book. The old one is out of date and it has caused a lot of confusion. If you happen to go to the miracle department please send a bunch. Just one final request. Can Kadizzle send a list of where lightening should strike? There are a couple of Republican bung holes Kadizzle would love to see hit. Also what are the charges for all this? Churches seem to want ten percent. Does God have any rebates or discounts for direct payment. Tell Jesus if he comes back we will be much nicer, and Kadizzle could get him a good job doing miracles in Las Vegas. Last but not least, ask God if Kadizzle could go quickly, none of that lingering painful death please. Will be checking facebook to see the results. Hope all is well in heaven.  

Here it comes

The Kadizzles have been living a life without winter for years. Just move away from the cold is the way old people live, but that will end in the next few days. The cold is headed this way clear down to Payson, Arizona. It may snow tomorrow. Thankfully the snow never last, but yesterday we were working outside in T shirts. Such is life. However, we are about to have friends from the north visit. The whole game was to let them warm up. Of course we can drive down off the mountain to warmth. 

Old Shanika is going to show up with his bucket of rocks from North Dakota. The rare North Dakota rocks will travel to Quartsite, where the largest gathering on Earth of nomads takes place. There we will try to sell the magic rocks. The original plan was to pay for Shanika's trip with the rocks. If it happens it will be a miracle. The rocks are Knife River Flint. Supposedly the only place on Earth where this stuff is found is in North Dakota. The best arrow heads ever made are made from Knife River flint. The flint knappers like the stuff, but will they pay. Another old friend did manage to sell some, but he is not rich from it. 

Someone cooks up this crap

 One by one we meet the people who will be moving in, and those who are already here. Yesterday a fellow from way down the hill wandered into the driveway. Soon we were talking, and then talking some more. In not time we covered everything from world events to local politics. Like so many of these conversations a few red flags popped up. The guy had some weird theory about google stock, and then of course the old Trilateral commission came up.

Kadizzle told the guy both his conspiracy theories seemed a bit strange, and that Kadizzle would research them. Later Kadizzle looked into the Google stock story. The fellow said google stock would be split 20 for one and that you could not sell or buy google stock for some period of time when this happened. Well it turned out there was a very small grain of truth to this spun story. Google is going to split their stock, but it has nothing to do with world domination. Everyone who has ever talked to a nutcase knows the Trilateral commision nonsense.  

So who spins up this insanity? Well one guy is Pat Robertson. Of course you have Fox News, and then all sorts of crazy people on right wing radio. Kadizzle tied to explain to this guy how people are played by the right wing media, but it was hopeless. The scary part is the sheer volume of idiots roaming about spreading nonsense. 

Now lets sober up for a minute. This has been going on forever. Religion is the ultimate conspiracy theory. Religion has always been used to bilk people and lead them into war, discontent, and so on. So why should we be surprised people suck up modern conspiracy theories. 

Rock Insanity

 They are everywhere, rocks, big rocks, medium sized, and every size and shape. When we moved in the builder said " Take all you want". Yesterday the same builder pointed at a huge rock weighing many tons an said "That rock is worth a thousand dollars".  According to some of the construction people around here the rocks here are unique. Hard to believe, but they do seem a little different. There are reddish sandstone rocks here. Other than this hill most of the other rocks on other locations are more of a granite or something else. Everyone here landscapes with rocks. Winky and Kadizzle have been moving rocks for weeks. Putting a rock in place is worse than any puzzle. Of course Winky and Kadizzle cannot agree on which side of a rock to point where, nor can we decide which side faces out, nor the quality. Rocks have more qualities than one might imagine. Flat rocks are wonderful, and square rocks are wonderful, they fit, but Winky loves the rocks with green moss.  A moss rock will make Winky swoon.  Looking at rock walls you learn to appreciate a skilled person. In not time at all you are looking at all rock work as art.  One thing Kadizzle has deep respect for are the ancients who built with rock. The native Americans have some amazing rock work around her that is thousands of years old. People have always used rock, it has an enduring quality. 

The Moving Hands of Time

That was yesterday, and yesterday is gone. The clock ticks and the hour glass runs out. The sun comes up and the sun goes down. At some point the sun will go down for the last time. Aging is enlightening. Kadizzle is in the crumbling stage of life, sometimes going to bed at seven. On the flip side we wake up at for or five in the morning. Not only do we crumble, but we watch those around us crumble. The children sprout up like weeds, as the leaves fall off our tree. 

How do you rate your life? Stroupini says he is in the last quarter. If the Game has 100 years that means you have reached seventy five. Looking back Kadizzle sees friends who were out of the game early. Kadizzle sees it as a football game. It feels like the ten yard line. This is that magic stage of life where you better do what you want. Now the problem is you may not want to do anything. 

Looking back is interesting. Kadizzle looks way back at two promising students he went to school with. These two were the ones that got the very best grades and seemed destined for a bright future. They both flamed out, and never reached their promise. As the old man gets older somehow he is getting in touch with people of sixty years ago.  How many people Kadizzle went to school with turned out to be infected with right wing Trump insanity? Too many. Kadizzle grew up in West Virginia, a stronghold of democrats. Now the state has turned into a Trump sewage pit. West Virginia used to be full of all kinds of jobs, unions, and some prosperity. Now the entire economy is based on health care and welfare. 

 

The Youngsters Came By

Winky was shouting something, and Kadizzle could not figure it out with his worn out ears. Soon he got close enough to understand. Elk were making their way through out backyard. Six young elk with the girls going first were right below us. With the huge window in our bedroom we could look right down on them ten feet away. This is what we have been waiting for. When we first started this project a huge bull went down the same way. These are big animals. 

Back when Erin was living up in the mountains and Sylvie was just two or three we went for a little hike in the nearby stream. Winky was with Sylvie, and Kadizzle was upstream a bit. An enormous big bull Elk came out of nowhere by Kadizzle and headed down stream towards Winky and Sylvie. Kadizzle feared the elk would trample them.  Fortunately the beast took off up the hill. 

Windy, Cold, Rain

The executive suite is about thirty steps from the Earth Module, but it is an awakening experience with wind, rain, and cold. It is still dark so Kadizzle cannot see if there is snow on the mountain. However, Kadizzle realizes how nice it is to be able to look into a different climate. Up on the mountain is an entirely different world. There may be snow there while it is just rain here. Then you get to come back to a cozy Earth Module. The executive suite is supplied with lighting from a little solar system Kadizzle installed. The solar panel gathers up sunlight during the day and gives it back at night. The system has worked with no pollution flawlessly for two years. Reality number one is very little lighting is actually needed at night. Reality two is we can light the night without killing the planet. 

Democrats in Arizona

 Democrats held a kickoff for their headquarters in Payson. The Kadizzles attended and heard some great speeches. Kadizzle got to meet the man running for secretary of state. He gave a very good talk and provided hope the country can be saved. The candidate played a key role in saving Arizona from the attack of the Republicans seeking to overthrow Biden's win. The woman running for Attorney General was just as good. Both were very well spoken, intelligent and gave us a lot of hope. It is good to see a woman is going to run for senate in North Dakota against the Hooplehead party. 

We are back at the Earth Module and plan to work on the trail today. Kadizzle will move some rocks and try to improve the walking surface while the main gang goes up the mountain to place the wilderness sign.

Hiking over the Earthquake

 Some strange news popped up on Winky's phone yesterday. There was an earthquake exactly where we hiked about two days ago. Kadizzle looked at the USGS map and it turned out we were dead center in Cottonwood Canyon where the quake occurred. It must have been a minor quake. People nearby did not even notice. The Cliff Dwellings are very close. It would be sad to see them damaged. However, even a minor movement could dislodge some very big boulders. We hike a lot of canyons with delicate boulders above, a quake would be scary. 

In the old days as an underground coal miner Kadizzle wondered what it would be like to be underground during a quake. He was told it is no problem. 

Waking up on the Mountain

We have better weather than anyone deserves. Winter is a long lost memory. If snow fell we would not know what it is. Our great wall in front of the house is considered done by hillbilly standards. 

Kadizzle took a brief bike ride yesterday and saw a guy with five teeth sitting in a vehicle marked security. It was a puzzle. His vehicle was next to a large empty field filled with Trump flags. Kadizzle thought somehow there was a relationship between the security truck and the Trump flags. With his usual brazen self Kadizzle asked the security guy why he was parked there.  The fellow said he was guarding the power line that was laying on the ground. Apparently there was a problem and a temporary high voltage line had to be run on the ground. The security guard was being paid 14 dollars and hour to sit there.  24 hours a day they would have someone sit there. Sitting now pays $14 an hour. 

The guard seemed like a nice guy and as we talked Kadizzle mentioned the field full of Trump flags. The guard said " I am not sure I would do that".   Who would show the world how ignorant they were with a display of Trump flas.  Trump made the ignorant proud. 

When the Brain dies

Sitting in the executive suite with the door open Kadizzle saw a strange site. Ken went by with his white truck pulling 275 lb Dave on a motorcycle. They were going way too fast. Old Ken, not to be confused with the younger Ken on our trial crew pulled Dave on around to the next loop by Dave's house. As planned Dave popped the clutch to start the motorcycle. The motorcycle briefly started and then Dave was slammed into the pavement. Winky fetched Kadizzle. She had heard the crash. From fifty yards away Kadizzle could see blood pouring from Dave's head. After we patched Dave up Ken took him to the ER to have his head stapled back together. Ken is over eighty an Dave is probably fifty going on ten. For lack of any quanity of sterilizing agent Kadizzle poured Listerine on Dave's head. It cleaned him up enough to see the leak. X rays showed not terrible damage, so Dave will be home tonight, hopefully a little smarter. 

Mountain Lion excitement

 Our neighbor Dave knocked on our door. When Kadizzle opened the door there was Dave with his huge shirtless belly displayed for the world. Dave rarely wears a shirt. Dave was in an agitated state and quickly reported a mountain lion had attacked one of his dogs. According to Dave he heard the dog screaming and went outside to see the lion after the dog. Dave managed to chase the mountain lion off. Dave came over to the Earth Module which is about one hundred yards from his camper to make sure we were aware of the danger. Dave ranted a bit about how he was going to shoot the mountain lion. Dave was going to get a better gun from Ken to protect the dogs from the lion. 

Sleeping in the desert is interesting. Something has been coming to our bedroom window and making a strange noise. Kadizzle thinks it may be javelinas. On the other hand it could be coyotes. Some of these wild animals seem to come right under out window at night. Perhaps the socks smell like delicious food. 

Honey on corn bread

Honey on corn bread, wow does that smell good.  Winky is sitting over there drinking her coffee enjoying her corn bread. Tony Bender wrote and excellent column as usual. If you want read it in one of eastern ND. newspapers. Went to Costco yesterday and spent some time realizing Kadizzle did not need anything. Amazing to see people in a line hauling fribbles out the door. Later we drove by the landfill and say the trucks dumping the fribbles people had purchased earlier in the day. Ship loads of fribbles come from China to help us build our landfills. Kadizzle is fat, that is to keep this reporting honest, but it is ok for him to be fat. No one else is allowed to be fat. Europeans must come of here and realize we have a fat epidemic. If you go to the fribble shop you will see people with lumpadiglititus roaming around. Like Kadizzle they are pie bellied men, or women with a butt two ax handles across. Perhaps Kadizzle will end up hiking a steep trail today. Carrying extra chicken meat up the mountain is no easy task. It would be worth it if there were a burning bush at the top, but in Arizona it is more likely to be a forest fire. 

Insane politics as usual. The old rat Mitch McConnell angered the Trump fans by admitting it was a riot, and not a visit by tourist. Here in Arizona the crazier you are the better chance of being elected you have. Who can tell the biggest lie. Immigrants are everywhere streaming across the border.  They must be piling up at the border. We have been here for two years and have not seen one yet. They are invisible. They must be hiding behind all the Trump flags. 

Different Planet

 Rolled out of bed at the Earth Module. Amazing how things on the planet are different after an hour drive to the Earth Module. Plants are very different down here by the lake. These are desert plants as opposed to mountain plants. Dessert plants are so mean full of stickers and thorns. The mountain plants are not out to sting you. Today Cliff and Kadizzle will take the Forest Service truck to Phoenix to trade it for a new one. Into the urban jungle we will go. Who would want to live in Phoenix? It is a vast city of concentration camps for old people. Everyone in Phoenix has a wall around their house. That is why they love the Trump mentality of wall building. Someone is going to get your stuff, your country, or your gun. Build a wall. That has been the answer clear back to ancient times. 

One more time

 Awakening a tired old body is a task, especially after moving rocks all day yesterday. The massive wall is just about done, but Winky insist on artistic rocks.  Big rocks hold up the wall and if they do not have moss on them, such is life, but they are not pretty Winky says. 

The glow over the mountains is a bright dull yellow and make for a unique morning. The trees are silhouetted against the sky. So here we go off to another day. Our first task will be a major fight against imaginary dirt. Winky has a dose of OCD. Dust and dirt are everywhere, but you can't see it. Like germs dirt is magical. You can have dirt everywhere, and not know it. 

In the ancient past Kadizzle was once a vacuum cleaner salesman. It was in highschool, and a terrible silly job. Some gangster like fellow ran the scam. We were selling a $49 vacuum cleaner for $270. Mr. Gangster always said " pull dirt".  What he meant was put a filter on the vacuum and show the customer how dirty their carpet was. Dirt will always come out of a carpet or furniture. You can vacuum all day, and at the end of the day you will still get dirt on the filter. One trick we used in the sales pitch was to ask the customer to get up. When the man or woman got up we would vacuum where they were sitting. Naturally we would get dirt. If that failed we would go to their bed and do the mattress. At that point the salesman would declare " You will walk on it, you will sit in it, are you going to sleep on it?".  So today we will be chasing imaginary dirt all over the house. 

Kadizzle just noticed the other day someone has invented a vacuum cleaner with a laser light. It shows dirt you otherwise cannot see. The people obsessed with dirt will love it. The good old bible says " Ashes to ashes, dust to dust". Kadizzle is a walking dust bag, so dust does not scare him. 

Poking the Bees

 Long ago and far away old Kadizzle put Chris Hiles up to a disastous task. Kadizzle's father had bee hives. One hive happened to be in the backyard. Kadizzle told Chris to take a stick and poke it into the beehive. The result was almost the end of Chris. Chris of course got stung. He went home where he was extremely lucky. His father was a doctor. Chris went into anaphylactic shock. Dr Hiles saved his son Chris. Perhaps if his dad had not been a physician Chris may gone on to glory. Chris had a magic way of getting into mischief. One of his neighbor kids hit him in the head with a pick. Not good. 

Now to the moral of the story. Don't stir up the bees. Kadizzle always remembered the lesson from Chris and the bees, but often failed to heed the lesson. So now Kadizzle is in Payson, Arizona stirring up the bees. Payson has a terrible Trump infestation. Kadizzle has been writing some editorial letters to the Payson Roundup. Of course the letters have a left wing slant that tries to interject some reality into the Trump fantasy. Perhaps it is just a matter of time until Kadizzle gets stung. Hopefully if it is a bullet it will be a quick one to the head. 

Modern Work

Before the sun is up Danny shows up to start his day building the foundation for a house next door. Soon Juan shows up. They work steady and hard all day laying eight inch blocks. The blocks are heavy. Then comes the teenage helper. Teenager number one lasted one day, teenager number two made it through the first day, skipped he second and showed up on the third. Modern kids have no concept of work. Modern work for teenagers means a break every so often to check the cell phone. There are still people who work hard every day, but they are few and far between. Most of the hard work is done by the people in China, and India. We just steal the excess. 

A lot of people never really worked in their entire life. Old Kadizzle shuns hard work, but he has done it. In the early days Kadizzle put up hay with his brother Colin. In West Virginia, that was hard sweaty work. Dragging hay bales into an abandoned house and stacking them in every room with shut windows was a task. Kadizzle remembers moving mine timbers from one cut to the next along with steel jacks in four foot coal, that was work. Old Winky and Kadizzle are building a rock wall. It feels a lot like work. 

24 Degrees

 24 degrees is now cold. Old Kadizzle used to live in North Dakota where 24 degrees was warm in the winter. In Payson the temp will warm up to 50 or better today. That means Kadizzle can work on the great wall. Now backfill is needed. This means moving one wheelbarrow at a time of fill for half a block. Yesterday Kadizzle might have made six trips. It will probably take at least ten or twelve more trips to fill behind the wall. All this exercise is a good thing. Old people get to work at their own pace. Old has a lot of privileges. You sleep when you want, take naps, and often are forgiven for forgetting. Then there are the discounts for being old.  The young people really need the discounts, not the old goats. They system is upside down.  When you are old people don't generally give you the finger when you make a mistake driving. On the other hand some hoodlums like to rob old people, and of course the scam artist love to pick on the elderly. 

I am not from this planet

Very little on Earth makes any sense. There is no such thing as facts, or the truth. If you believe it, it is true. Imagine millions of people caught up in mythology, it could not happen on my planet. Imagine people starving while others throw food in the dump, not on my planet. On my planet we share. On my planet there is not gratuitous suffering. Reality rules on my planet. On my planet if you believe something, you have to demonstrate it is true. We have no crooked preachers, lying news media, tribes, cults, and presidential liars. 

Want a good listen. Kadizzle rarely listens to things on the NYT, but there is an excellent interview with a Fox News defector. Go for it. 

Up here on the mountain there are no burning bushes, but it is cold. Kadizzle has undertaken a wall building effort that is equivalent to the great wall of China. Slowly it occurred to Kadizzle how most wall builders cheat. You make the face of the wall look nice, then just pile ruble behind it. The Great Wall of China has a lot of dead Chinamen for fill. Stands to reason, a lot of people must have died building that thing. A careful examination of the throw it in the middle technique will show it has been an old trick. Republicans know it well. Create a facade, with nothing behind it. Kadizzle is moving some very big rocks and has really become in love with the giant steel prybar. Any rock that refuses to bend to the will of Kadizzle will be subject to the laws of physics and the lever. With one hand it is amazing how much force you can exert. The rocks may take revenge and fall on Kadizzle. The imagination keeps telling Kadizzle he is going to be trapped under a rock yelling for help. So far so good. Rocks also have a good friend called gravity. If one of these boulders falls on the foot or hand, Merry Christmas. Winky is down at Lake Roosevelt in the Earth Module doing her volunteer work for the Forest Service. 

Mandatory

 Tom Friedman wrote an excellent article in the NYT today about the need for good people to speak up about the Trump dictatorship. The NYT is in the opinion of Kadizzle the very best daily source of information. When the Republican finally destroy the NYT, you will know the game is over. Republicans have perfected lying, and putting their lies on right wing media. No one has mastered propaganda and lying like the Republicans. They work so hard at it manipulating the dolts. School boards are a classic example of Republicans in action. Republicans know thinking is the most dangerous enemy they have. 

Kadizzle always thinks of Southern West Virginia when he contemplates stupidity. Coal companies made sure there was a good supply of stupid people when coal was king. The schools were terrible, and deliberately so. All the coal company needed were people who could shovel coal. It backfired. The day came when coal companies needed electricians, skilled mechanics who knew hydraulics, and so on. Now the coal companies that had destroyed education had to fund their own schools to teach science, math, and the other skills needed to keep the mines running. 

Republicans are destroying the basic ability to think. Rational thinking is being destroyed. Don't believe your lying eyes is the new Republican brain drain.  The insurrection that you saw live on television did not happen. It was all an illusion created by Democrats. Wow, that is what the Hoopleheads believe. 

It is very early, and you probably have not read this yet, so here is another assignment. Kadizzle just read " I am not the American dream", another NYT article. Excellent, read it. 

There is something magic about the morning. The brain is renewed, and alive. We are in deep trouble, shake someone today. Tell them to wake up and smell the rot, not the roses. 

Rock and Roll

 Last night after the workers left Kadizzle started to harvest the rocks they were discarding If ever there was a rock garden it is here. Rocks grow out of the ground to huge sizes. Brother in law Ned gave Kadizzle the perfect tool to harvest rocks. It is a big pry bar. The magic of the lever is astounding. With one hand Kadizzle can lift a three hundred pound rock. 

Winky is back from here furniture hunt. Today we might play build a wall together. Trump likes to build his walls on the border we prefer the backyard. A major project will be in the front yard. Kadizzle paid a landscape guy 2k to do some rock work. Kadizzle was not pleased with the way it turned out and will have to redo it. 

The housing boom in Arizona is going strong. According to PBS 500,000 housing units are needed.  Poor people are being thrown on the streets. Winky reports a vast homeless population in Phoenix. Of course there is no need for people to be homeless. When so many people have two homes and other have none, we got a problem Houston. Sinking into a third world country will be exciting. The dicatator is in Florida liking his chops.