Religion

 

We now have a supreme court that is the servant of the religious. They are going to fund religious schools, have invaded women's rights, what next?The religious brought us Trump? How's that workin for you?

The plot thickens.

As expected Rob Port teamed up with Kevin Cramer and the result is a twisted column by Port in the Fargo Forum. Port gets a little carried away and adds elements to his stories that are fabrications. Of course Port plays up the idea Kadizzle pushed Cramer when Kadizzle had his kerfuffle with Cramer in 2017.  Kadizzle did shove $23 dollars down Cramer's shirt collar. Kadizzle never pushed or assaulted Cramer. On Port's radio show Port heard Kevin Cramer say he was not assaulted, but it makes a better story to lie.  Neither Port nor any reporter explained how that incident evolved. Not going to rehash that story, but you can go back in Kadizzle history and read it. 

Cramer has declared Kadizzle " A menace to society".  Port does not have the balls to call Cramer out about the real menace to society. You know the one that got the policeman killed at the Capitol. 

Kadizzle emailed Port and pointed out some of his distortions in the article Port wrote. Prior to publishing his article Kadizzle asked Port to let him read it for accuracy. Of course this was not going to happen, Port knew what he was doing. 

The interesting question is how did Port know Kadizzle had an encounter with Republicans in Payson, AZ? Obviously he was tipped off by someone who had a motive. What could that motive have been?

If you watched the Jan 6th hearings you saw how the Republican Party works. You saw how witnesses were intimidated with the old mafia technique  " I would hate to see something happen to your dog".

Republicans don't play fair, that is the lesson. 

Below is a letter Kadizzle emailed to Rob Port

I find it mind boggling that you have a pen, ink, paper, and access to information. What do you choose to do? Instead of showing the courage to go after three cowards, Armstrong, Cramer, and Hoeven, you chose to do a story on Mike Quinn. You could expose the congressional delegation and their role in the Jan 6th debacle, but no that would ruin your conduit to them. Instead you prop up an immoral coward like Kevin Cramer. I just don't get it. I was a coal miner all my life. There is an old coal mining union song " Which side are you on".  Which side are you on? Do you support a democracy with free elections, do you support the people who purchase politicians? Which side are you on? Are you like Kevin Cramer? Kevin Cramer is for Kevin Cramer and no one else. Is Rob Port for anything more than Rob Port? Take on these lickspittle for Trump, show some spine. Use the ink you have been given to do something worthwhile. Why waste an ounce of ink on Mike Quinn that could have been devoted to making Armstrong, Cramer, and Hoven uphold their oath. Mike Quinn is an easy cheap target with no downside. On the other hand, playing up to the three stooges pays dividends.  Courage is a rare commodity, I want your children to be proud of you as a man who fought for our country. Supporting the corrupt, gutless congressional delegation may put money in your pocket, but it will never put pride in your heart

Kadizzle could write all day about this nonsense, but the bottom line is the Republican mafia is devious beyond your wildest imagination. 

What will the Republicans do next? You can guess, I can guess. Stayed tuned for their next move. 

Now for the wife's idea. Why not use the Trump excuse for everything. Whatever was said ,was said rhetorically. Remember what Trump said during his speech on January 6th. Trump said " Let's all go down to the Capitol, and I will be there with you."When caught in his plot Trump claimed it was just rhetorical.  

The way the Republicans work

 The hearings yesterday were explosive. One interesting thing was the messages Republicans used to intimidate witnesses. It was the old mafia technique. To avoid jail they use insinuation.  " If you want to be a good cult member and stay on the good side of Trump, be careful what you say".

Kadizzle has got on the wrong side of Republicans in Payson, AZ. Kadizzle is experiencing first hand how they work. The Republicans have searched everything they can find Kadizzle has written, including this blog. As mentioned previously they took a facebook post and twisted it to their liking. 

Now the Republicans have embarked on a strange quest to discredit and embarrass Kadizzle. Incidentally Kadizzle usually has no problem embarrassing himself. Somehow the Republican network has relayed Kadizzle's run in with the Republican party in Payson to Rob Port in Fargo. Kadizzle feels pretty sure Port is not going to write anything favorable about Kadizzle. It will be something along the line of liberals are out of control. 

Kadizzle is amazed at how devious people can be making false claims and insinuations. Republicans are experts at this. Fox News has made a fortune lying. Kadizzle once was lied to by an editor for he Hazen Star Newspaper. Kadizzle checked his story with the police chief and found the man had fabricated a story about Kadizzle. The newspaper later fired the man for his reporting and lying. 

Kadizzle has encountered people trying devious ways to undermine him in the past. Once a jealous fellow employee tried to fabricate false accusations about Kadizzle sexually harassing a female friend. Don Severson was his name and he got caught. Rosy was a good friend of Kadizzle and she did not go along with the plot. In another incident the vice president of human relations Tom Fisher for Basin Electric tried to set Kadizzle up.  That plot failed. Tom Fisher was fired for faking college credentials. A Basin board member threatened to blackmail Kadizzle if Kadizzle persisted in promoting a trail along the Missouri River. It turned out Kadizzle had much better blackmail on the board member. Mr. Board Member had been caught with a prostitute at the Silver Dollar in Mandan. That shut that guy down. 

Trump has set a new standard for lying, cheating, and just plain old fashioned criminality. We all need to be thankful for the good people who stood up against him. 

Two of the best

Winky put Kadizzle onto Heather Cox Richardson, and Kadizzle has always thought Paul Krugman was tops. Strangely both of them have come to the same conclusion, the Republicans are trying to destroy our democracy. It comes down to two simple things. First, Republicans think the country belongs to old rich white guys. All the other colors are just here to be our servants. The second thing is greed. Republican fear poor people are after their money. Republicans want to destroy all social safety nets. 

Paul Krugman has a good article in the NYT today, and Heather Cox Richardson had an excellent podcast a few days back. Richardson does such an amazing job of putting these things into historical perspective. 

On the other side of the fence who are the sages? You have the Fox News gang of liars. Republicans struck gold when they realized how powerful controlling the simple minded is. Trump said it out loud how much he loved the uneducated. 

Watch the uneducated. Around here the most important thing in an idiots life is a big loud pickup truck with goofy tires. Somehow the dingers are like the elk they think they can attract a mate with a show of antlers. The loud exhaust from their truck is the mating call. To some degree it works with the simple minded women. They must figure it is a good male that can afford expensive tires and a truck. The problem is in the end it results in breeding idiots to idiots. That explains a lot about how Trump voters are made. 

Another entire thing the Republicans have going is the disrespect for education. It is real. As my old buddy said " Education just confuses people".  Republicans have trained the idiots to distrust people who think. Science, math, history, and that college stuff are plots to confuse people. Around here you just imitate what dad did. Dad did not read much, and he got by. Dad did pretty well just working with his hands all day. Dad told me not to trust people who used be words. Republicans know with dingers the key is to keep it simple. Dingers do not want a complex answer. If the is something wrong, Biden caused it. That is all a dinger needs to know. It works. 

In the good old days of slavery a lot of lies were told to the slaves. It was a simple way to control them. Of course the slaves were not allowed to learn to read or write. Now we have voluntary slaves who will not read or write. Almost forgot distractions. What do you do with little kids who are a problem? Distract them, give them NASCAR, fake wrestling, sports, celebrities. s

Here we are it is 2022 and you can easily get information on just about anything. You would think this would make people more intelligent, but it hasn't. Given the choice people will migrate to stupidity. 

OK, what is the solution? Hunger, and cold always work pretty well. The last time people awakened was during the depression. They were cold and hungry. The way it works is if you poke the beehive enough you will get stung. Vietnam poked the beehive. Young people did not like the idea of getting shot for no reason. Black people got fed up in sixties and burnt down some cities. In most revolutions it needs to get to the point where the rich have poked the poor a little too much. Now we have a chicken in every pot, so nothing is going to change soon. Kadizzle rides his bike around Payson. There are pockets of slummers living in squalid run down old RVs. Are they happy? Sure they have TV, can probably buy enough beer, and are warm.  There are plenty of food banks, and the social security check keeps them alive and allows them to go to Walmart and buy slum supplies. Why should these people get upset about a president who wants to be a dictator. 

The whole thing makes Kadizzle think of Ukraine. Think back before Russia invaded. A lot of Ukrainians thought Russia would never attack. Can you say wrong? The dingers do not see climate change, and they do not see the threat of Republicans establishing a kingdom. We just have to sit back and wait until the dingers are cold and hungry. 

The plot thickens

While doing yard work old Kadizzle got a phone call from Rob Port. Rob Port is a right wing blogger, and writes a column for the Fargo Forum. Somehow Port got wind of the fact old Kadizzle was arrested for refusing to leave Republican headquarters in Payson, AZ. Very strange that the incident made it to a writer in North Dakota. We have a mole. Maybe that mole is reading this right now. The Republicans are devious. If you watched the hearings or if your brain is functioning you know the Republicans don't play fair. The truth is very bendable for Republicans. Somehow good old lickspittle Kevin Cramer got involved in this. Cramer told Port that Kadizzle threatened to punch him. Not sure how this evolved, but Kadizzle has called Cramer's office to find out his take on the January 6th hearings. Kadizzle has an old brain, but Kadizzle does not recall every telling one of Cramer's interns he would punch Cramer. Well rest assured this will be spun into another amazing tale. Who is taking the time to read this nonsense and report it to the Republican propaganda gang. The Republicans have a good network, it does not always work, but they are in the game trying their best to put the right wing spin out. Kadizzle has had a good dose of how they work. Beware they are vicious liars. The Republican agents have searched all of the Kadizzle blogs, and facebook post for things they can twist. Republicans do not understand sarcasm. In one facebook post Kadizzle jokingly talked about loading his handgun. Kadizzle has never owned a handgun, but leave it to the Republicans. One thing Kadizzle has learned is the ability of Republicans to spin reality. Well old Rob Port will come out with something. It will be amazing. If there is no spin, it will be a miracle. 

Now for the Republican mole reading this stuff. If you had an ounce of integrity, or just plain honesty, you could ask me in person what I mean and we could talk, or you can report to headquarters without consulting me. Kadizzle gives the Republicans credit, they have an amazing machine. Republicans for all their faults keep the trains running on time. Republicans have perfected the science of distortion and lying. Sadly Democrats cannot get organized, and are also plagued by honesty and integrity. 

The Battery is too big.

 Winky has a big battery, and when she gets a bee in her bonnet she does not stop. Winky has invented a project of lining our drainage ditch with rocks, tons of rocks. This means we go out in the forest with a wheelbarrow and haul rocks back to the ditch. Hopefully today the job will be done to her satisfaction. 

Just watched a woman in a video come down hard on the Bible Thumpers. She asked the question " What makes your book right?". Another question is why do you think we have to live by your book?

The entire concept is insane. If the Bible people actually studied the Bible as they all claim to do they would realize why the Bible was written. It was an instruction manual for the Jews. It told the Jews how to treat slaves, who to kill, and who to torture. No one would adopt a manual written by the Nazis. The Christians have no respect for the religious books of any other religion, yet they claim their is for sure correct. The absurdity. Nothing demonstrates the absurdity of their book than their vote for Donald Trump. If an alien read their book he would conclude they were for socialism, yet they decry it. The Bible has caused more deaths, thievery, pain, and suffering than any other book. Name another book that started more wars, got more people killed, or elected a more crooked president. Send in your answers. 

Internet blowed up

No internet, so the phone is providing service. 12 power poles were blown down in the wind they say. How are we to stay up to date?

Some rain fell, about enough to put out a small match. Kadizzle and Winky have been frugal for our entire marriage, but the money is flooding out this year. The stock market has hammered us and we have spent a fortune of furniture and landscaping. When we left Hazen we got rid of all our furniture. Sell low, buy high is our new motto. Today we go to Phoenix to pick up furniture for the new patio.  We are doing our part to stimulate inflation and the economy. 

Kadizzle made his final bike ride down the hill last night. We have come to really love the park at the bottom of the hill. On Saturdays they have an evening music presentation. It was well attended for a rainy evening. The park is the gem of the town. People use it, dog walkers, model boat sailors, and fishermen, yes the fishermen.  For three tiny lakes there are always people fishing. The state must stock the lakes abundantly. It is wonderful to see the little kids fish. People are friendly and conversations are struck up all the time. The park gets used. It is great to see. One of Kadizzle's schemes is to expand the park. 

The supreme court is now meaningless. It is just a tool of the political hacks. If you watched the Jan 6th hearings you know morality is mostly gone. Thank ya Jeeeesus a few of the Trump people turned on the rat or he would already be King. Your typical dinger walking down mainstreet with a bone in their nose has no conception of how the government is supposed to work. Kadizzle has written it before, but the tsunami of ignorance that hit the country will be our demise. 

What does prosperity do to people? Mental destruction is the answer. Kadizzle grew up in a house surrounded by doctors homes. That meant all the children of the doctors were our playmates. 90% of the well to do children turned out to be duds. They never learned to think critically. A lot of them went to private schools, failure again. Kadizzle grew up hard scrabble style and he at least learned some street smarts. No one handed out money, you had to work for it, a great early lesson. With nine kids in the family sharing was a way of life. Existing meant you had to learn social skills early. Maybe a little bragging, but out of the nine children 8 had college degrees, two became lawyers, four went on to graduate school, and all became financially secure, but one. One flame out among nine not bad. Three of the nine were key players in building parks in their community. Just about every brother and sister became politically active. Of the nine three went on to the land above. Strangely we are not dying in order. The three oldest are still kicking, lost my younger brother and two older sisters. The clock is ticking. 

Pound some nails into concrete

What will happen? Kadizzle fired off Heather Cox Richardson to two hard core Trumpites. Will the dingers read the synopsis of yesterdays hearings? Kadizzle figures he will not hear back. You cannot penetrate the cult fog. One dinger flew a Trump flag on his boat, the other one on his flag pole. Can they be saved? 

January 6th

Trump is a mentally ill piece of work. How could anyone watching the hearings conclude otherwise. The evidence against him and his minions is overwhelming. We came close to a coup. Only a few good people saved us. Sadly the people who needed to watch the most were tuned in to Fox. 

Kadizzle has to make a trip to Sedona today to get the ebike repaired, the chain broke. At last rain fell, praise be unto Jeeesus. 

Very strange to wake up to a cloudy maybe rainy day. 

If you have not been to Sedona Kadizzle will give you the run down. Indeed the rocks and natural features are a sight to behold. The hiking is great. Now for the bad news the town is usually overrun with tourist. Two things make the tourist worse. First are the pink jeeps. Every simple minded person must take a jeep ride. The jeeps roam the backroads and people get to pretend they are having an adventure. Then worse yet are the people who rent four wheel buggies and drive them on the forest service roads like they are insane. Just too many people sort of ruin the experience. 

Here is a tip. If you want to eat at a nice place, go to Cottonwood. Cottonwood is close to Sedona and has a lot of nice eating places on old main street. Not so crowded, and feels more relaxing. Deadhorse State Park might be a nice place to camp if you are in an RV. EBG goes to Jerome the little mountain town.   Who is EBG?   Everybody and their grandmother. Jerome gives a good view from the side of the mountain and is crowded at times. Parking there will be a hassle. That is this morning's tourist advice. If you ever plan to go just about anywhere in the southwest Kadizzle would be glad to give you advice. The Kadizzles have been roaming Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, and parts of California for years. We have made some trips into Mexico, and the North West, and once a trip to Alaska. Pretty sure we have been in every state except Hawaii and maybe Maine. If you have to chose one state and you like the outdoors it is Utah. No state has the variety of Utah. 

Let's start a religious school.

The supreme court is going to make it possible for religious schools to get tax dollars. A new religion has just come into being. We are called Kadizzlites. In our religion the children come to our school to get indoctrinated in left wing socialism. That is what Jeeeesus wanted. Once we get the money from your tax dollars for our school it will be built in the shape of a peace symbol. Of course the principles office will be ornate and comfortable. Teachers will be paid little or nothing to conserve money so the principle can go to conferences in the Caribbean. As much money as possible will be diverted to Lord Kadizzle. He will be the equivalent of the Pope. Think about this, tax dollars going to Catholic schools. The head of the Catholic gang lives in an elaborate castle. Now, if the old pope can do it, why can't Lord Kadizzle. 

You have to love religion. What other business has no product but fantasy, and it's profits are tax free? In the old days churches had a specific price for sins, going to heaven, and so on. The Church of Kadizzlites will have many great features.

1. You can have as many wives as you want. For the women you can have all the husbands you want. Now beat that Mormons. 

2. Mormons offer each Mormon to be the God of their own planet when they die. Kadizzlites can get a Universe, plus a black hole. The black hole is where the donations will go. Nobody will every find out what you did with the money. Trump has one. 

3. You get to write ten of your own commandments. 

4. Forgiveness is $19.95 with a money back garantee

5. You can get an extended warrenty that last all the time after you are dead for an extra $12.00 a month.

6. The church will cremate you if you donate five gallons of gas, or diesel.  ( full disclosure, some of the left over fuel will go in Lord Kadizzle's vehicles)

7. Most churches make you tithe 10%, not this one. Instead you have a Kadizzle credit card that charges 10% on unpaid balances. (Please not that if you do not contribute 10% on church day, that is an unpaid balance)

8. You can make church day any day you want.

9. You get to decide who you will hate in the name of religion, what sexual practices you approve of, and decide what other religions are wrong. 

10. The Church building will house Lord Kadizzle. It will have a baptismal pool with a hot tub section, diving board, and will have heated water. The pool will be big enough to baptize the entire congregation at once. Swim suits are optional at the baptismal pool. The pool will be filled with holy water.

11. The grounds will have a nice orchard with the fruits of god. Of course the will be a vineyard. 

12. Communion will feature hard liquor and mixed drinks. Gin will be served as the blood of Kadizzle. The tonic will be called the rain of heaven, with a lime slice of forgiveness. 

Why would you go to an ordinary church when you can have it all with Lord Kadizzle. Keep in mind sexual abuse of alter boys will not be permitted, nor will any abuse of the nuns. Incidentally the nun outfits will be much more sexy to temp sinners so we can throw them out of the church. Also as a policy matter we will no lie to children. If children as if Lord Kadizzle is omnipotent, they will be told he is actually impotent. 

Lying will not be tolerated. As you may recall the incident when a prisoner accused Lord Kadizzle of being a member of the Ku Klux Klan.  In open church Lord Kadizzle said " Someone is accusing Lord Kadizzle of being a member of the Klan, if that person does not stand up and confess they will go to hell".  That was when sister Marybell stood up and said " I didn't say you was a member of the Klan, I said you was a wizard between the sheets"

Fun at Costco

Old Kadizzle and Winky went to Costco today. Gin was featured. If you bought three bottles you could get three giant handles for $23 each. Now our home has about four gallons of gin incase of nuclear attack or if Trump is re-elected. Now for the fun part. Walking along in Costco Kadizzle said loudly to Winky " I hope Trump goes to prison". It worked a dinger overheard the remark and shouted out, " Biden is a pedophile".  Biden kissed his grandaughter on the head at a funeral, that makes him a pedophile. Old Kadizzle is a terrible pedophile, he kisses his granddaughters on the head all the time. Kadizzle loves to hug and kiss his wonderful grandchildren, but you need to be careful or Republicans will label you a pedophile. 

For some strange reason Republicans love to call people pedophiles. If you watched the hearing the good Trump supporters went to the Republican speaker of the house's home in Arizona and said he was a pedophile because he said Biden won. 

When we lived in Hazen, Kadizzle like to call the little kids up the street potato heads. Kadizzle enjoyed seeing the kids jump on the trampoline. We always waved. The father of the kids was simple minded. Kadizzle complained about him parking junk cars on the street. One day Kadizzle talked to the potato heads and they said their little brother was having a birthday. Kadizzle never thought about it and pulled out a dollar and said give your brother this for his birthday. Well the dad was irate because Kadizzle complained about the junk cars on the street. The father came and knocked on the door and said he would report Kadizzle to the county as a pedophile if Kadizzle talked to his kids. No more birthday presents. What kind of a world do we live in? As Winky pointed out, Donald Trump had a good friend Jeffery Epstein who liked to rape young girls. Somehow the dingers overlook this. 

Math on the sidewalk

Kadizzle took the usual bike ride down to the lakes. A math teacher with some good thought had her class solving math problems written on the sidewalk. The kids were playing something called math bingo. The kids had to do 25 math problems to win the bingo game. 

Kadizzle engaged some of the kids in conversation. The diversity of the students, and their energy was delightful. One kid was quite a talker. Another kid said he was shy and did not talk to strangers, and then he started talking to Kadizzle. 

 A delightful thing about the class was the makeup. There were Asian kids, latino, black, and a very good mix of children. They all got along fine. Seeing these kids gave Kadizzle so much hope. These kids were not yet stupid. Would their exposure to the nonsense of their parents make them into right wing nuts?  It seemed education was doing what it was supposed to do, make thinkers out of children. How does this process get ruined by the Republicans?

Downhill madness

 Winky dropped Kadizzle off on the ebike to ride down the canyon. The ride revealed some spectacular scenery. In particular was a spire made of house sized boulders maybe 700 feet tall. The trail was hot and confusing. At the end Kadizzle took a forest service road home. It was a lot of exercise for the old lard and he slept well last night.

Kadizzle is scared for the country and so are a lot of other people. The simple minded want a dictator, and there is one sitting Florida looking for a job. What is mind boggling to Kadizzle are the political ads on television.  All the right wing nutcases state in their adds they are in love with Trumpism.  Sadly there are no adds for sane people. What is going to happen. Keep in mind there were 70 million idiots that voted for Trump. With stupidity spreading like covid the dingers will latch onto high gas prices and vote for the Nazi party. Remember how Hitler used the Jews to get his game going. The Republicans will use inflation, immigration, and gas prices to draw in the simple minded. It will work. We are in deep trouble. 

Yesterday Kadizzle went to the thrift store to buy a red plastic glass. It worked perfectly to make the solar fireplace on the new patio. While at the thrift store Kadizzle overheard one of the employees complaining about the Juneteenth holiday. The man made some very racist remarks. Trump did a great job of firing up racism. On PBS last night an Asian woman spoke about how Trump stirred up hate for Asians with his covid lies. Unbelievable that we have a man like Trump who knows how to juice the rednecks. Trump will be our Hitler. 

Biking and Motorcycling

 Yesterday the Kadizzles rode the ebikes up a canyon. The first part was difficult and we had to push the bikes up parts of the trail strewn with boulders. However, the trail became nice and we had a good ride. 

Later in the day Kadizzle got sucked into a black hole on the motorcycle. He should have known better. It was the usual fit of stupidity. It was just going to be a little ride down to the lake. Then, why not go up Peach Orchard Trail. Well, why not go a little farther and explore. Then a little farther, and farther. Suddenly the what if brain starts to work. Way out on a Forest Service Road Kadizzle begins to realize he has done the usual. He is riding with no helmet, and no good protection. 

The big problem with riding unknown roads is you can go down a steep rocky slope, and then realize you cannot get back up. The only solution is to keep going. The keep going is the nerve racking part, because if you keep going and get somewhere that you cannot go up you are in a hell of a mess because now you are trapped between two places you cannot go up. Fortunately Kadizzle never got trapped yesterday and had a fairly good ride. No question he is a slow learner. 

Maybe you should be scared.

 The morning routine includes perusing many things. In the course of this exercise Kadizzle read this morning's Heather Cox Richardson. She is absolutely the best commentator about current events. If you have not heard or read her writing you should do so. This morning she wrote about the platform of the Republican Party in Texas. It is scary. The insane ideas of the Republicans in Texas would take us back a couple hundred years. 

The level of ignorance and backward thinking in this country is frightening. Donald Trump has made stupid people proud. Now the most ignorant stand up with pride and the other ignorant people cheer and love them. We sit here in Arizona where TV political commercials appeal to the most sorrowful among us. The Trump wanna bees in Arizona all say in their adds they support Trump. Imagine that. People bragging they support the most corrupt president in history. No one connects the dots. Of course no Trumpite is watching the Jan 6th hearings overflowing with evidence of what an evil man Trump is. Most remarkable are all the witnesses. Republicans that worked with him have all outed his scheme, yet they still believe. 

Stupidity struck with a vengance

Kadizzle had the brilliant idea to clean the new patio with vinegar. He may as well have rinsed his brain with acid. Little did he know the power of vinegar. The vinegar stain the patio. Kadizzle has been trying to correct the stupidity by using a wire brush to remove the stain. Not working well. Everesto says he can seal the patio and solve the problem for mere $680. Kadizzle may have to pay the price. If you think you hear a steam whistle today it will be the arrival of Winky. Winky is off camping with a friend. When she finds out what brain dead did there will be a nuclear reaction. Not going to be a good day. Kadizzle is going to the funeral home to see if any good brains came in. 

Learning Spanish

 The terrible invaders from the south built our patio, built our house, did the drywall, the counters in the kitchen, and the landscaping in the front yard. Actually they are wonderful hard working people. Their work ethic makes Americans look like lazy bum walkers. 

Kadizzle and Winky cannot help but admire and like these people. They are all so nice, such fun, and family oriented. When the Republicans harass the people who want to come to this country and work hard it is very upsetting. After watching these guys put in a long hard day in the sun we have now become accustomed to giving them more money than they asked for. They deserve it far more than the poor little rich guys that inherit if from dad. The rich are the real welfare cheats. 

Exploiting cheap labor is the bread and butter of Arizona. Try to fence these people out, but if they do make it treat them like slaves. 

Now to the Spanish. Most of the people who show up at our house speak little if any English. Usually just the boss speaks English. It has been educational and fun trying to communicate. 

Yesterday Kadizzle got into a whole new realm of communication. The guys putting in the artificial grass started communicating the old fashioned way with hand gestures and simple words. Then the phones broke out. These guys used their phones to translate. Kadizzle enjoyed sitting in the shade going back and forth using the phones to translate. Carlos would say something into his phone, and then hand the translation to Kadizzle. 

Why not simply solve the crises at the border? The people should be allowed to come. Here is a simple solution. You come to the border, you get your picture taken, you finger prints, and you DNA. Then you get a permit to live and work in the U.S. for six months. After six months if you have been good, paid taxes, and no crimes you get another six months, then a year, then three years, and then you are a citizen. Short, simple and easy, but no, immigration is like abortion, it is the perfect political fodder. Our economy desperately needs workers. White kids just don't get anything done. Two nice young teenagers are trying to work for Ricki in his paver business. The kids work, but also spend a lot of time on the phone. Yesterday Kadizzle asked where was kid number two. Kadizzle calls them biscuit and gravy. Well, gravy took the day off to go to Prescott for a concert. 

The Mexicans do not take a day off in the middle of the week to go to a concert. Biscuit and Gravy use their money to buy typical teenage nonsense. The Mexicans send money home to their parents. 

Now who do you root for? Donald Trump and his gang of liars calls the people who want to live like we do rapist, drug smugglers, and miscreants. Really? Republicans always pick on the minorities. It might be black people, it might be women, it might be the poor, but you can count on Republicans to demonize those with less. Never, do the Republicans attack the greedy and power hungry. 

Dazed and Confused

 Kadizzle just returned from a bike spin around the lake. A strange hand cart was by a shady tree. The hand cart had Jehovah's Witness literature. Close to the cart in the shade were two young ladies dressed nicely promoting their version of God. 

Engaging the religious is fun. Kadizzle asked the two disciples if they voted for Trump. No, they did not vote at all. Kadizzle went on to explain to them if they wanted to fight evil they needed to vote against Trump. In his usual fit of insanity Kadizzle had the usual Biblical conversation. Bible verses were quoted. Kadizzle centered in on the verse " The meek shall inherit the Earth".  The meek are those who do nothing while evil prevails. Kadizzle had to explain to the two women of Jesus they would inherit the Earth because they were doing nothing to fight evil. 

Now to the meat of the experience. Gazing into the pretty eyes of the one young woman Kadizzle had the feeling he was seeing a brain on crack. These poor women were in a religious fog, much like the people in the Trump cult. Reality had left a long time ago. No the only hope is  the afterlife. What is wrong with inheriting the Earth? The Earth is a mess, and getting worse, mostly because of the religious sitting under trees in the shade selling fantasy. Of course the same fantasy lovers voted Trump into office. Perhaps Kadizzle is in a fog, but he sure meets a lot of other people in the same misty confusion. 

The secret society

What would it be like to be gay? You would feel threatened and a need to hide your identity. In Payson, Arizona if you are a Democrat you might get the same feeling. If you were a gay person you would know that no matter where you went there would be other gay people. The same is the case for free thinkers. Many people feel a need to keep secret or low key if they are agnostic, atheist, or anything out of the mainstream.  

In our new environment the Kadizzles have gradually come to know the few and far between liberals in Payson. Open minds are a little scarce here. 

You meet one person of free thought, they introduce to another, and another. Soon you feel hope that there are people capable of rational thought. 

Last night Kadizzle took a motorcycle ride down by the lake. Kadizzle had been told by some new liberal friends that there was another good liberal living near the lake. Sure enough Kadizzle bumped into his new friends at the lake. Kadizzle stopped there because he saw the truck of the new person he had not met and hoped to meet another person who could see through the fog. Shortly the four of us were sitting in chairs by the lake exchanging liberal conspiracies. Now Kadizzle can count six people who are disease free in Payson. Wait there could be more. We attended the Democrats picnic and the opening of the headquarters, so maybe the number is more like twenty. 

The plague of stupidity is thick in Payson. For that matter it is thick in Arizona. On the PBS station in Phoenix they have been interviewing candidates for office in the next election. Frightening to see how many Trump lickspittles there are. 

Kadizzle is out of the political closet. Letters to the local paper have let the locals know Kadizzle is a flaming liberal. A lot of gay people say it is liberating to come out of the closet. Being out of the political closet is also a feeling of freedom. 

Praise the ebike

Kadizzle is approaching 5,000 miles on the ebike. That works out to about $1,250 in fuel savings at today's prices. The ebike has turned out to be one of the best things Kadizzle ever purchased. The German engineered bike has been very trouble free. Now that we live on top of a very steep hill the bike is a savior. On most days Kadizzle makes at least two trips up and down the incline. 

A lot of people do not understand how the bikes function. The bike will not go if you do not peddle. Secondly you select how much help the motor provides. On the steep hill Kadizzle will be huffing and puffing even with the help of the motor. You will get all the exercise you want. Have not met one person who regretted buying an ebike. Try one if you can. Be ready to purchase an ebike. If you try it you will want one. 

The real beauty of the ebike is it keeps old farts going. Winky just did a mountain ride with a younger set of geezers on regular mountain bikes. She was able to enjoy the ride and keep up. The Kadizzles have had some fantastic ebike rides. One of the absolute best was in the Badlands of North Dakota. 

If you live somewhere with stores a short distance away the ebike is ideal to get to the store for the lime or lemon you forgot. Almost every day we take a short ride down and around the nearby lakes. 

Another nice thing about the bikes is you can pop them on and off the bike rack on the back of the truck or car. If you get to a little town and you want to explore it, park the car and use the bike. It is so much better. 

You can by an ebike with a throttle. Ours have no throttles. With a throttle you do not have to pedal at all. Of course if you do no peddling you will get no exercise. How far can you go? The longest trip Kadizzle ever made was 57 miles. He could have gone farther, but decided to use more power near the end of the ride. On our bikes you can always go 25 miles under the worst of conditions. More than likely you will wear out before the battery does. 

 

Ecstasy in the Dungeon

 As the rock fight in the dungeon progressed an idea crept into Kadizzles head. All engineers are taught rocks have unlimited strength in compression, but they are weaklings in tension. 

The idea percolated. What if Kadizzle's best friend the 12 ton hydraulic jack could put the rock in tension. With careful planning the idea came to fruition. Kadizzle broke out enough of the rock so he could make it work against itself. Placing the jack on the small perturbance Kadizzle had created, and putting the jack against a face of the rock victory soon emerged. With just a couple of strokes on the jack the massive rock popped into two humongous pieces. Kadizzle immediately declared himself a genius and insisted Winky come see the marvelous victory. The rock had submitted to the laws of physics. 

In the course of battling boulders in the crawl space Kadizzle took on many strong rocks, but the was the rock of Gibraltar, and Kadizzle broke it in half. Drunk with victory Winky had to bring Kadizzle back to Earth. 

There is still much work to do, but the enemy is defeated. The carcass has to be moved, and many of it's splintered pieces have to be loaded on the wheelbarrow. The children, and grandchildren will be told the story of how Kadizzle outsmarted the eight ton megalith in the crawl space. More likely it will be a story about the time Grandpa lost his mind. 

Down in the Dungeon

 The rock fight goes on. Kadizzle managed to break off a large piece of the asteroid in the basement. Finding weak points in the rock monster is the key. If you can find a weak point and exploit it a victory may be in site. 

The secret society is growing. Yesterday Doug brought two neighbors from down the hill to meet us. Quickly we discovered they were liberals. What a breath of fresh air. They told of others in the secret society of those who think in Payson, AZ. There is hope. 

Kadizzle called the Bismarck Tribune and the Fargo Forum yesterday. Both papers refuse to hold the three stooges accountable for January 6th.  I asked the editors to call the offices of the stooges, Cramer, Hoeven, and Armstrong. Ask them if they are watching the hearings. 

Bee Bumble Bee and the Magic Snoochels.

Just about every morning Kadizzle conjures up Bee Bumble Bee and the Magic Snoochels. Bee Bumble has two wonderful snoochels. One is three, and the other five. Facetiming the little people lifts Kadizzles heart. What a great way to start the day. Usually the encounter takes place as Bee Bumble takes Evie to school. Children give people hope. 

Bee Bumble is on the East Coast, so at five or six in the morning her gang can be seen. On the other hand the new teenager, Daddy Long Legs lives in Denver. To see the 13 year old marvel you have to facetime in the evening. Sylvie is a charter member of the evil genius club. As reported before her talents are endless. She wants to be a con artist when she grows up, but for now she is an artist of many sorts. Sylvie can do it all. She sings, is a very talented artist in several mediums, is a great actor, and even dances. Add to this a half decent soccer player. Turning 13 she has become taller than her mom. Grandpa has a great time with Sylvie joking, singing, and carrying on. Of course Sylvie can manipulate old Grandpa to spend sixty bucks on yarn, or buy some ice cream. 

 

The Palaver

Who reads this Palaver? Kadizzle knows who a few readers are, but the reality the majority are mysterious. Surely there are a bunch of people who stumble across this nonsense accidently. Keep in mind this stuff makes Kadizzle not one cent. Kadizzle is not about to spend any time correcting spelling or working on grammar for free. Kadizzle is notoriously cheap. 

What inspires this nonsense? Probably the same thing that inspires a mosquito to bite. Kadizzle wakes up and random thoughts spin through his head. 

Kadizzle is one of the laziest people that ever inhaled air. That means he never took the time to correctly set up the comments section on this thing. However, if you want to make a direct comment to Kadizzle you can. The email dakotaquinn@gmail.com will get you to Kadizzle. Your input would be interesting. The question is, do you read this crap once in awhile, daily, or hardly ever. The next question is how can it be improved? That is a trick, no matter what you say it will remain as crappy as ever, unless you send money. In the old days people had to take their human waste out in a bucket and dump it. This blog is old fashioned it is just a dumping of human waste. Hope all are well and fighting the good fight. If you know any good recipes for roasting Republicans please pass them along. Kadizzle likes to cook them in truth with a dose of transparency, until well done. 

Here we go

 Winky is off in the mountains on a bike ride. Kadizzle sits alone reading the NYT. Charles Blow has a good article you should check out. We are walking on thing ice with Trump the cold water underneath. If Trump and his gang reemerge we are toast. 

Kadizzle has been drawn into the Netflix show Peaky Blinders. The show features a gypsy gang in England that became powerful in British politics. Like a lot of these productions it touches on the real politics of the time. Much of the epic evolves around bootlegging. 

A character in the saga is a man named Nelson. The man seems to be a stand in for President Kennedy's father. If the portrayal is correct, Kennedy was the product of a gangster. The connection between organized crime and goverment has always been strong. Trump is nothing but mafia through and through. Last night CNN ran a review of Watergate. Nixon was just a crook and a crime boss. Look at Putin, if he is not mafia there is no such thing. 

Now back to history for a little review. J. Edgar Hoover used to love the race track. When Hoover went to the track to bet, the organized crime people would give Hoover his money back if his horse lost. Does it get any better. Of course Hoover said there was no such thing as organized crime. 

Kadizzle grew up in a town thick with organized crime. The religious, the criminals, and the government were all thickly intertwined. The criminals supported the churches, they always have. Don't want those priest interfering with crime. Who elected Trump. It was the religious. What more do you need to know?

The Rock Monster

 Sisyphus has always been the symbol for the life of Kadizzle. The poor guy pushing a rock up a hill. Underneath the new headquarters is a giant rock. The rock may be as large as eight tons. It must be less than that because the 12 ton hydraulic jack moves it. The mass of stone is in the way for the room Kadizzle hopes to create in the crawl space. Battling the rock is sort of a hobby.  Lifting the rock has been at least a three day project. How do you lift something from the side, when the side is smooth? No way to get the jack under the rock. Chiseling a notch in the side of the rock for the jack to take hold is the answer.

A major victory was achieved yesterday, the rock finally reached the point where the jack would go under it.  The notching process was dangerous. Several times a shard of rock split of and went flying when the 12 tons of pressure overcame the adhesive quality of the rock. Kadizzle used an old dynamite trick.  When you expect stuff to go flying you put a blanket over it. In a rock blast you use a blanket of old tires wired together. With the rock monster it is just some wooden shielding. 

How about the real monster, Donald Trump? Read Maureen Dowd today in the NYT.  

You Know what you know

You know what you know, and you don't know what you don't know. Yesterday that was the scenario. Winky and Kadizzle got into a big kerfuffle about the sediment pond in our backyard. Winky said she spoke with the engineer who designed the pond and the engineer told her there was a small two inch hole in the wall. Kadizzle thought this was nonsense and there was a failure to communicate. Kadizzle was sure he was right and decided to go to the engineer and get things straight. Then the brain came alive. Maybe there was a hole. Kadizzle dug down in the dirt where the hole might be, and low and behold it was there. 

Now the moral of this story is make sure you know what you are asserting, before you make and ass certainer of yourself. The hole was either there or it was not. What constitutes a fact? That is a major problem in our world today. A lot flies around masquerading as fact. The classic today is blaming Biden for gas prices. Sure it works, but is it true. Cause and effect are mysterious ideas. Did this cause that. The sun came up, what caused it. For thousands of years people got it wrong. No one knew the Earth was spinning so everyone made the wrong assumption. 

One way to solve some of the mysteries is the idea that if one thing is true, then something else should be. For example if Biden stole the election, why didn't he get some more Democrats elected when he was stuffing the ballot box?  Seems like simple logic, but it kind of messes up the Trump story. 

You cannot pound facts into a Republican's head.

 Maybe you watched Liz Cheney launch a rocket up Trump's ass last night. Have to admire the woman for have some principle. Kadizzle just had to sit there and think about the Republicans that would refuse to watch. You cannot pound facts into their heads. Give them truth and the stuttering starts, well, well, but, but what about Biden's laptop. 

Reality, that blasted reality. Help the Republicans stamp it out. Somehow this reminds Kadizzle of a story by H. L. Mencken. A poor black man was about to be hanged in Baltimore. Asked if he had any last words the man said " This sure is going to teach me a lesson". Well that ain't the case for Republicans. Nothing reaches over the wall the cult has built. 

The Kadizzle cult now resides in Arizona. Conspiracy theories here are the fruit of the Earth. The more absurd your beliefs the better they like you. Who wants to fix the water, put out the fires or build the roads, no one. What we want is intrigue, lies, socialist behind every tree. No one wants old fashioned reality, that is why we go to the movies. The imagination is king. If you can imagine it, you can begin to believe it is true. Just one little lie is all you need to set a conspiracy on fire. Misinterpreting data has become an art. Biden snapped his fingers and caused inflation and gas prices. 

 Kadizzle will get to jump off the planet before it gets too bad, but what about the kids? We made this mess, we let the Republicans foul the universe, we did nothing when the lies were tiny weeds, we let them sprout into plants with the fruit of Trump, Cramer, Hoeven, and Armstrong. 

Kadizzle is fat. How did it happen? Little by little. First you break the 200 barrier, then it is easy from there. That is how the Republicans took over, little by little.  The old saw " I am not a member of any organized party, I am a Democrat" is so true. As evil and bad as Republicans are, you have to give them credit for methodically carrying out their evil. Republicans poisoned us little by little. Republicans had the patience to build their lies.  Meanwhile Democrats were doing yoga, and becoming vegetarians. 

The Earth is spinning

 On the deck as everyone awakened Kadizzle started a physics discussion. The equator is traveling about one thousand miles an hour towards the east. That means if you launch a rocket eastward from the equator you get a thousand mile per hour push into orbit. 

Another day begins. Yesterday Kadizzle went to court to plead not guilty to his trespass charge with the Republicans. While waiting for the judges an elderly woman asked Kadizzle for legal advice. Kadizzle explained he was not qualified to give legal advice, but did anyway. The woman told Kadizzle her story. She had been stopped for an expired tag on her car. She had some sort of other outstanding offense so they made her stay in jail overnight. The poor old woman walked with a cain. This is the good part. To put the woman in jail they had to take here to Globe, which is over sixty miles away. After spending a night in jail the woman was released. Now you have a woman on the street in Globe with no way to get home. This seems like a rather cruel and senseless thing to do to an old lady. It would have seemed someone along the line would have had a little compassion. This is where the magic of the law should come in. It is called discretion. To have a civilized country law enforcement needs discretion. Not so long ago people insisted on mandatory sentencing. The idea turned out to be terrible. The fear was compassionate judges. What a terrible thing compassionate judges. Do you want to live in a country where judges have no compassion?  Now this idea of discretion can get out of hand. There have certainly been policemen who have used their discretion to beat the hell out of someone rather than give them a ticket. Some people may have preferred that treatment. 

Now it is just about time for a bike ride down to the lakes. What a nice way to start the day. Hopefully there will be elk down there grazing. 

The way it works

 The Kadizzles have lived the RV life for about twenty years. Every winter we have headed south. Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, The Baja, Mexico, California, Nevada, and a few others. When you live this life you meet people, and then you meet them again. If you are reading Ed, you were one of our first good traveling friends. Ed is a retired pilot and in the early days we met up with Ed in various places. Since then we have met and re-met so many good people. People that move around are more fun, more interesting, and just plain good people. Must also mention some of the nice bums we have met. 

Last night Deb, and Al stayed with us. Years ago we met them near Sedona. We have been good friends ever since and Winky took a 250 mile hike with Deb. A lot of our friends are Canadian. There is something special about Canadians, cannot get it in writing, but they seem to have figured life out better than Americans. They laugh at us and our stupid health care, they roll their eyes with our Trumpsters. 

One of the nicest things about RV friends all over the place is you know you can call on someone for a place to stay or in an emergency. 

People are relaxed when they travel, they have time, and a different attitude. 

Things have changed though. Too many of the Indian sites have been overrun with people. Dry camping is getting more difficult. Prices have increased. It seems a lot of the huge RVs driven by the big buck people have evaporated. Ebikes are sprouting. 

One sad thing is the lack of younger people. Our economic enslavement makes it hard for young people to enjoy life. We should have mandatory five week vacations for everyone. The Europeans also seem scarce, not sure why. Maybe they don't like our random shootings. 

Biking the Highline Trail.

 Kadizzle decided to ebike up the mountain. Winky, Deb, and Al walked down. Up almost a thousand feet. What a nice ride. The scenery was spectacular. We are in a new environment and have a lot to explore. On the trail were fresh bear track, and elk tracks, maybe even mountain lion. If you ever buy an ebike spend the money and get a good one. Kadizzle's ebike has almost five thousand miles on it and has been a loyal servant hauling his hulk up mountains. 

There are some conservatives that have not succumbed to the Trump Cult. They are rare, but may be our last defense against the crazies. Kadizzle wrote to Rob Port, a right wing columnist in North Dakota. Port has been under attack from the Trump Cult for not being Trumpy. Thank ya Jesus. The cult is threatening his family, and himself. This is the nut cases Trump stirred up. The same type that attacked the Capitol. 

Will anything happen for gun control. No, it will all go away. There might be some small concessions, but for Republicans that opioid of NRA money is irresistible. Look at the Republican rats in North Dakota sucking up NRA bait. 

Up Early

 Up early. The Kadizzles are on an adventure hike or maybe bike into the mountains on the rim. The Rim is the way everyone around here refers to the mountains that surround Payson. Kadizzle likes biking way more than hiking, but Winky wants Kadizzle to walk. We shall see. 

All day yesterday they set the trusses on the new house next door. Someday we will  have neighbors. 

The nights cool down here, which is nice. The days are beginning to bake. It is always about ten degrees cooler here than in Phoenix. That is why we chose this place. 

Again last evening Kadizzle took the ebike down the hill to see the elk at the lake. The simple dingers drove by in their noise blasters. Kadizzle feared it would chase the elk away, but they did not seem to mind. 

Humans have encroached on the forest. We are the intruders and you cannot blame the elk for eating all the things we plant. 

In the background Finbar Furey is playing. Kadizzle has become addicted to his music. 

"The Village "   has been keeping the TV mind going. The British do such a good job or recreating certain times in  history. World War One was a piece of work. Total insanity gripped the world. Now, we live in the Trump era, more insanity. 

Republicans have concocted a movie called 2000 Mules. Anyone who checks on the facts will find the movie is a cheap concoction of lies, but wow, the Hoopleheads think it is the equivalent of finding out the Earth is round. The Hoopleheads love nothing better than a good conspiracy theory. It is amazing a Hooplehead can bake a cake, they just cannot put two and two together. 

Emergency notification.

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38 Russians

 Where did the Russians go? This blog had hundreds of Russians now we are down to 38. Most likely good old Putin, Trump's buddy has restricted the internet in his little kingdom. It is nice to know 38 Russians can access the world. How strange that 38 people try to become more aware while we have 70 million Trumpsters who want to be more stupid. 

Unfortunately the statistical part of this blog system will not show how many Republicans are reading. It is nice to have Republican bricks onboard. They can be fun. The local Republicans are warning each other about Kadizzle with a stolen post from facebook. The post has a picture of Kadizzle with a Trump MAGA hat on. The text that goes with the post is very insulting to the Trumpsters. That is what makes it fun. They are circulating information that sets their insurrection minds afire. 

Another week is off to a start. The builders will show up shortly to work on neighboring houses. Perhaps a little good economic news. If the rumors are correct the developer in our little project raised the price of houses by 200 thousand dollars. Good luck with that, but if it is true and people will pay that will help our bottom line, which needs help. 

If all goes well artificial grass will be put around the patio today. We will need to put some artificial worms under it. 

Some good traveling friends stopped by yesterday. They live full time in their fifth wheel RV even though they have a nice home. A great life, they are headed north with no known destination. That is the way to live. 

Payson has a lot of gollywompers, kadiffles, kaflumpers, bum walkers, and skididdlies. What are they? They are creatures that look like humans, but are not the usual humans. They have green hair. One with green hair and a witches hat was in the grocery story yesterday. Many of them have so many tatoos they look like they accidently got run through a printing press. Of course there are many pie bellies. Kadizzle is one.  A nice pie belly above the belt brings our the American look.  Some of the pie bellies make the super dome look small.  There is a tribe of kafiddlers that love to mutilate themselves with bones in their noses, holes in their ears, and it looks like they dived into a pile of sharp things, and got out with half of them stuck in them. 

A good climate makes people living on the edge thrive. In North Dakota they said the winters keep the riff raff out. Where do the riff raff go? They are right here in Payson wandering around dazed from the street drugs and the drug of stupidity.  What happens when people get pounded down? Capitalism pound the simple minded into the ground. A lot of the simple minded do work with dust, dirt, and chemicals if they work at all. The fumes eventually rot out the two brain cells they had. 

Now the poor face a crisis created by our system that gives some billions and others crumbs. Housing is out of reach for so many. Then how will the goofs with the silly trucks buy fuel so they can drive around with Trump flag, and go Brandon signs? 

How about the Kadizzle's crises?  The dust from cutting pavers permeated the deck. Winky was going nuts about getting the dust of the deck. We scrubbed and scrubbed with no luck. Then the brain storm hit Kadizzle, vinegar, that was the answer. After we poured a gallon of vinegar onto the cement like dust it gave up. A little acid can do many tricks. 

Have a good week and make it a point to enjoy life. Tuesday we will go up in the mountains and ride the ebikes, should be fun. 

Love the Elk

 After a nice dinner a bike ride was in order. Kadizzle set off down the hill with the nice evening air. The wonderful park with the lakes had a lot of evening walkers. The best part were the five elk grazing oblivious to the humans. Like cattle grazing the fed on the green irrigated grass of the park. They just did not care about all the humans around. The other wildlife had the same attitude. The geese and even the migrating water birds ignored the silly humans. It was like a biblical scene where everyone gets along. The elk are considered a nuisance around here. What a wonderful nuisance. The majestica animals are fun to see. 

Difficulty getting the sun up

A good nights sleep, and now it was time to bring the sun up from behind the mountains. Kadizzle made the coffee and as it brewed he went on the deck to arrange the sun in the sky. Although it seemed like the sun was coming up the sun just did not appear, perhaps it was stuck. What was it like for the natives to see the sun come up, what did they think it was all about? The problem with getting the sun to rise was clouds. Normally putting the sun in the sky is easy, but the clouds on the horizon made it difficult today. At 5:12 the sun was supposed to be up, but Kadizzle could not be sure. For sure it is up now and working fine. For awhile it looked like we may have needed a sun mechanic. Strangely one realizes the sun is not rising, but the Earth is spinning with our house spinning in the direction of the sun. It took a very long time for humans to figure this out. It may take centuries for some humans to figure out Trump lost. 

Our new home sits atop a hill, maybe a little mountain. The new housing development we live in gets a lot of sniffers. The sniffers drive up from down below and check out the progress of the homes being built. Of course we have sniffers on foot to.  Yesterday a sniffer from down the hill stopped by. He has stopped to chat before. We had a nice long conversation on the new patio. Everything was covered from India, to China, and then on to economics. 

The developer is getting a lot of interest in his project so the rumor is he has raised the price of a home by 200,000. If he can pull that off before the market crashes more power to him. This is how it works. The Republicans in California get angry about the socialist in California and sell their homes for a nice profit. The redneck people from California show up in Payson, Arizona with a pocket full of money to buy a new home. Now for the strange part. The locals think it is the socialist moving here and don't like the people from California. Little do the locals know the people from California are gun totting Trumpers just like the locals. 

However, the builders, carpenters, patio builders and the rest of the gang have figured it out. Money does not mean the same thing to everyone. If you have a pocket full of California money your view of prices in Payson is way different than how the locals see money. The local real estate, builders and so on are all too happy to soak the new residents. The net result is prices are going up. This is one reason why the locals are angry. Doesn't exactly make sense. Now Willy  the local has a home worth more, but poor Trumpster working at the casino cannot afford rent. As usual the well to do are doing well, and the not so well to do are not doing so well. A rising tide lifts all boats. That means your rowboat will rise as much as the yacht. The problem is when it rains your rowboat does not have a roof. That is how capitalism works. We love it. 

A Fizzler and a hike

Off we plowed back to Payson. One major mistake we were on the wrong road for the plan. The plan was to take a hike at Pole Knol. Leaving Springerville there are two ways back to Payson. They look identical until you get to the pine forest. As we drove it suddenly hit Kadizzle about ten miles into the wrong direction. Kadizzle was not sure he wanted to do the pine forest hike so he just kept driving. Kadizzle gave Winky a hint " What if we both had a fizzler?".  About ten miles farther on the wrong road Winky realized the mistake and forced the turn around. Two old people suffering from fizzlers. 

At Pole Knol we had a wonderful hike on a sunny day at the perfect temperature. Winky who hikes like her butt is on fire took off on her own. Kadizzle got off the trail and took a wild hike twice. The pine forest was so nice. With the aid of the GPS on the phone Kadizzle headed down the mountain. The amount of downfall was amazing and Kadizzle realized what Lewis and Clark faced going over the Lo Lo Pass in Montana. 

Here we are back at the ranch. The new patio has turned out very well and the life of luxury continues. In a moment of insanity we decided to buy an electric blind for the huge window in the bedroom. In retrospect we could have done the raising and lowering manually, but now we sit in bed and push a button to open the planet in the moring. 

Day Two in the White Mountains

 Winky likes to make fun of the "Go Bag", but it saved the day or night. Kadizzle was out of socks, underwear, and a T shirt, but the go bag had em. The go bag is a large bag full of things that might get you out of a bind, like staying an extra day in the White Mountains.  The go back has some food, small cook stove, army rations, and various devices, that could come in handy. 

Yesterday was a five mile forced hike by Winky, today will be the same and then back to the ranch. Sleeping here is excellent, no noise, light or other disturbance, and the nights cool down. 

Reading the NYT today the world is in complete chaos.  Inflation, gun nuts, Trump cult, and on it goes. 

For the beginning of summer there seems to be a lack of people out and about. Fuel prices must be slowing things down. It is dry, could hardly be more dry. Arizona is waiting for the monsoons. Things are exceedingly ripe for forest fires. The whole state could go up in flames. 

Amazing thing about humans is their ability to ignore reality. Until your own house is burning down, bombed, or your child is shot who cares. Facts are a thing of the past and we are living in the world of" If you believe it, it is true".  Make up your own science, election results, or medicine. Strangely there has always been this make believe among us, it was religion. Religion was a system where you just believed what you wanted. Now that idea has spread across society. Trump showed us you can just make up a lie, toss it out there and let it grow. Of course churches early on learned you could make money inventing stories for people to believe. Why not do it with the economy, politics, and every day life?

Back in the White Mountains

 Thanks to Cliff we are back in the White Mountains. Awakened to a wonderful day. Yesterday we got Ruth settled at her RV park with her new motor home. Had and excellent dinner at the BoogaRed restaurant in Springerville. Winky insist we stay another day and hike, so we may get some exercise. We were going to bring the ebikes, but did not, big mistake. We are now at 7,000 feet which is more comfortable for the temp. 

Welcome Payson Trump Cult

 Welcome aboard Trumpers. Apparently the Trump gang has discovered this blog. Great to have them onboard. Nothing could be better than forcing these backward people to read factual information. 

How did this all come about? If you keep up with the blog you will note Kadizzle got a citation for failing to leave Republican Headquarters in Payson in a timely manner. To follow up Gary Morris, whoever he is filed an injunction order against Kadizzle. To get information apparently Gary went through all Kadizzle's facebook post and even researched the Kadizzle blog. Gary cited the Kadizzle blog in his injunction complaint. 

Anyone who follows Kadizzle knows there is a lot sarcasm going on. Of course the Hoopleheads so not understand sarcasm or illusion and a lot of other things about the written word. 

The most amusing thing the Trumpers found was a post on facebook some time ago. Kadizzle posted a picture of himself with a Trump " Make America Great Again" hat on.  The caption read " Putting on my Trump hat today I felt a sense of stupidity come over me. I turned on Fox News and believed everything they said. Next I had some racist thoughts as I loaded my handgun. The hat is magic. Stupid people came up to me and we shared conspiracy theories. It is like going into a different world. I think I will take the hat off it is just making things worse, and it is no fun advertising how stupid I am".

The real bueaty of this is the Trump Cult people are circulating this information with a label that says " Beware of this man".

Gary Morris the perpetrator of this sillyness assumes based on the facebook post Kadizzle has a handgun. Don't have one, never did, and never will. The cult members have no sense of humor. 

Kadizzle took great pleasure in knowing Gary had to read through hundreds of post insulting Republicans to find one he could use that portrayed Kadizzle as a threat. 

Hopefully the Republicans now follow the blog to check for more insane information about Kadizzle. In the past it was suspect the Russians might be following the blog. That is what the blog statistics indicated. To have both the Russians, and the Trumpers keeping tabs on Kadizzle is a great honor. Strange about the relationship between the Russians and the Republicans. How about a little paranoia? Maybe the Russians tipped of the Republicans. 

The level of insanity among the right wing cultist is alarming. Kadizzle had a long conversation with one yesterday. The man alleged slaves were treated well and many of the became millionaires after the Civil War with the help of their old buddies the plantation owners. 

Hopefully Kadizzle has learned these people are hopeless. 

The Trump Cult has cooked up this movie "2000 mules".  The movies alleges of course Trump won because the ballot boxes were stuffed. To prove this nonsense the movie manipulates phone records in a bizarre way. The Cult members are eating up this nonsense. Nothing spins a Trumpers head faster than a good conspiracy theory.