Cancer eating us all

Getting old and dying is no fun under the best of circumstances, but the good lord often sees fit to add more pain and misery with cancer. At this point a couple of friends are suffering. One friend asked Kadizzle to add some prayer to a donation. Prayer puzzles Kadizzle, and so does the need to donate. Lets tackle prayer first. Why do you have to ask God to do what he should do anyway? What kind of God needs to be begged to let a little child live? Makes not a bit of sense. 

Now let's get to the donation. What country makes sure you go broke as you go on to Jesus? Most countries have health care that does not bankrupt a family. First you have insurance companies with the CEO raking down millions that could be used for care, then you have hospital executives doing the same thing.  Advertising? Hospital systems and insurance companies spend a fortune on advertising when the money could be used for care. Come die with us. 

As said many times in these rants it is not a question of supply. We have the money and the resources, but Republicans have made sure that money and those resources go to a select few Frank. 

The dingers like Frank, and Jeff B. have an aversion to statistics, but the statistics tell the story. The numbers say other countries have better outcomes for less money.  Deny that Frank. 

Old Kadizzle had a bout of prostate cancer. It was a learning experience. Among other things it showed the inefficiencies. Test would be conducted at nine in the morning, and for no reason the same test would be conducted two hours later. The weight of Kadizzle does not change that much from morning until noon. The blood pressure at ten is enough, but each outfit has to rack up the bill. 

Over the mountain today to Cottonwood. A nice drive and down to a different desert. If your are economically challenged move south. The people who failed to fund their retirement need a warm climate to survive. After a life of drudgery you get to move into a trailer court. You will be given an old vehicle to drive, and two small yapping dogs. Your second car will be a golf cart. You can dress in flip flops and baggy clothes and take your Trump issued gun to the grocery store. You need to shop on Wednesday to get the senior discount. For entertainment you can go to the senior center and discuss how Biden raised the gas prices and immigrants are swarming over the border. 

If you suffered from a little too many drugs and alcohol there are plenty of places in the woods you can settle either in your tent or your busted down RV with plastic over the windows. If you're short on heat you can go to the warming center.  The food pantry has a nice selection of canned beans and corn if you feel the need to do some cooking. How can you get out of this mess? Do your best to go public with your racism and antisemitism. Trump will invite you for dinner. 

Cowards with lickspittle topping

When you think Trump has run our of ways to be despicable he comes up with more. Hosting racist at his nest takes the cake. That brings us to cowards. The lickspittles like the ones Kadizzle used to have in North Dakota. John Hoeven, Kelly Armstrong, and Kevin Cramer. Three elected gutless lickspittles without the courage to go against Trump. Pathetic humans so engrossed by money and power they lick Trumps boots. Of course we have the same bunch of right wing cowards in Arizona. Trump does something outrageous and his minions act like nothing happened. 

The idiot test is so simple today. Just ask a person if they voted for Trump. A one question IQ test. Better yet maybe you do not have to ask. The person may be wearing an idiot hat or have a handgun at their side. Mark them down as an idiot. 

Kadizzle has become engrossed in a youtube serious done by a pilot that analyzes plane mishaps. So many accidents are caused by ego, and self delusion. A pilot refuses mentally to see he has made an error. To magnify the error the pilot uses poor information to confirm his error. Seeing the runway is critical. However, in snowy conditions mistakes can be made. The mind searches for a rectangle and will grab onto any rectangle. The end result might be landing on a snowy rectangle that is not the runway. 

Frank, and Jeff B. do this everyday along with the rest of the Trumpsters. They force their mind to make sense of things that don't make sense. Admitting you are wrong is a difficult skill to acquire. The mind does not like being wrong Frank. 

Kadizzle likes to remind himself " You know what you know, and you don't know what you don't know".  Knowing what you don't know is crucial. You do not get to make up what you don't know. It can be fatal. Be careful. The mind is an expert at filling in gaps. Kadizzle like every old man is losing his hearing. It is an interesting process. The mind does not have enough information to interpret properly what someone said. No problem, the mind uses what information it did get and constructs an incorrect conclusion. A person says " Typical nasty weather", Kadizzle hears " Tickle your ass with a feather?".  You can see the danger here. Frank and Jeff B. do this every day with Trump. Trump invites a racist to dinner. Then Trump claims he did not know who the anti-Semite was who came with the racist. Frank and Jeff B. recall how Trump has black people who support him. In their mind it all turns out Trump is a loving guy who likes everyone including the Proud Boys and the gang that trashed the Capitol. It makes sense to them, but it does not make sense. On the surface a Ponzi scheme makes sense, but dig a little and the logic fails. Frank, and Jeff B. don't dig. As soon as they find something yellow, they are sure it is gold. 

Hello Vietnam

Russia is falling back, Vietnam coming on strong on the blog statistics. OK, Vietnam why are you now at 17% of the viewers? Russia is down to 10. Did the Russians sneak over to Vietnam? If a Russian or Vietnam person would let Kadizzle know. Frank, and Jeff B. still don't have a clue how Russia plays the game.

 

Sitting around the fire

 The commander has been anticipating a fire in our new fire ring in the backyard.  So far we have had two real fires. There was some debate if we should go with propane or old fashioned fire wood. The Commander likes to gather things like rocks and firewood. To add to the comfort we got a radiant heater so we could do our best to help destroy the planet with waste of a natural resource, and put a little CO2 in the air. 

Good old Trump the supreme racist manipulative rat. How was Trump to know who was coming to dinner. He had no clue it was a white nationalist. Gee Frank, your hero needs to work on his invitations. Of course most people would not notice if you invited the queen to dinner and she showed up with Hitler. 

In order to keep Frank, Jeff B, and Kari Lake onboard Trump has to invite a few Proud Boys, and white nationalist to dinner. They are not just coming to get our guns, they are after our country. What if they vote Democratic and we have to share things? Jesus would be upset. After all Jesus was a capitalist. Jesus founded the Catholic church one of the most successful businesses ever. So what if the employees got to abuse little boys.

Kadizzle had to make a trip to the casino yesterday to make some adjustments. On a Sunday the Indians were hold up the wagon train. The old goats were pumping social security checks into the machines. The poverty bomb is going to explode. Penniless old goats will be the norm. We live in a Ponzi scheme world. At some point China and India will realize we cannot pay for all the stuffed animals we purchased. What if Americans had to work for a living rather than exploiting the colonies? It has been so long since Americans have really worked that we may have forgotten the process. OK, we do know how to make French Fries, and flip hamburgers. Since most of the real work in our country is done by people who sneak across the border what will we do when the border is closed?

In our little cul de sac a man came to work yesterday. He has difficulty with English. He put the stone on the house next door. Another migrant put the roof on the other house to the left. Yet a third immigrant laid the paving stones. The boss said American teenagers just will not work. However, we have a generation of expert video game players. Check your want adds to see how many companies are hiring game players. 

Have told this story before, but who cares. Years ago Kadizzle called his sister in Wheeling, West Virginia. Kadizzled asked how the economy was doing. Patty said " Just fine, we sell each other hamburgers". Christmas is the time of year we sell each other Chinese junk. Borrow the money on a credit card at 20% interest and buy one more thing you don't really need. There are at least six computers in this house. Of course some are old, and resting, but most get the job done. Still Kadizzle would like to have a new one. The battery on this one does not last that long, but it works. This is America where you have an urge to buy something, and you don't even know why. 

The Earth is still spinning

Going to be another sunny day. Checked the weather at our old home in Hazen, ND. Looks like the teens back there in the arctic. Don't miss it. More than likely will be sitting in the sun in a T shirt today here. 

Kadizzle is cheap, and today's topic will be a lesson in cheapness. Lesson number one, don't buy things that are free. Pens are free, five gallon buckets are free, firewood is free, compressed air is free, and water is free. This brings up a story. Kadizzle gave his pet bum some money. Soon there after Kadizzle saw the bum at the gas station. The bum had purchased a gallon of water to give to his dog. Bumore must wonder why he is broke, but when you buy water for your dog the mystery should be solved. 

 Look at your classic person who is busted flat. On their body will be a thousand dollars worth of tattoos, and in their mouth will be a cigarette. The same person will be driving a jacked up pickup truck with a Trump sticker, and of course an NRA sticker. No doubt they spent some money they should have invested for a gun. 

Degenerates always plan to get rich in one simple move. It could be a lottery ticket, a slot machine, or a pyramid scheme. The concept of slowly becoming wealthy escapes the bum walkers. One thing the down and out have mastered is destroying what transportation they do have. Instead of driving sensibly the guy with the desire to remain broke will spin his tires and abuse his car in anyway he can. Of course this includes skipping any maintenance. 

Kadizzle always told his children " No one can steal knowledge from you".  It is hard to succeed in this world without some knowledge. Strangely knowledge can be obtained for free. Of course you can make sure there is no room in your brain for anything but baseball statistics, and other useless information. 

One simple thing anyone can do is watch successful people. What do they do, how do they do it. On the other hand if you hang around with simple minded people it may well be contagious. Where do you get your ideas? If you shop for knowledge on Fox News, and go to Tea Party meetings you may not be buying the best quality information. 

Slavery should have been a great lesson for both the slaves, and the modern capitalist. Rarely do you get rich working for yourself. You get rich by exploiting other people or maybe you actually give them something of value, but generally speaking until you accumulate capital you will gain very little. You gain capital by saving and investing. Schools don't do a very good job of imparting this knowledge. Your typical student does not really understand compound interest, exponential growth, or future value. 

Buy a zippity do da car today, or save and buy three zippity do da cars when  you are fifty?  That simple concept is not imparted to bumore or the people the Republicans exploit. 

This leads to a simple question. Why am I poor? The real reason is more than likely you made a series of bad decisions, but that is no fun. So here come the Republicans to tell you that you are not the cause of your own economic mess. No, it is the Democrats giving all your money to other poor people. You are really a genius, but you have been duped by the Democrats, Donald Trump will save you. 

Now back to an old question, if someone stole your money, what will they have? Answer, your money. Do poor people have your money? No, the car dealer that sold you that piece of junk has your money. He lives in a nice house and goes to Las Vegas. If the poor guy stole your money he would not be living in a tent. Did the insurance companies steal your money, yes. Did the Republicans sell you a Trump flag and give the money to Donald? Yes, now figure it out who is stealing your money. Could it be the lottery, the casino, or the Dollar Store? No, ask any Republican it is the immigrants, and the people on welfare who are robbing you blind. 

Gained 1500 feet and lost one leg

Piling into the truck we headed to the Barnhardt Trail. Few trails have the rugged views this one does. The geology would be a great hike for a class. Once. you get way up the canyon the trail takes off on a steep climb. The total climb is 1500 feet. 

On the way back a sudden pain surged through Kadizzle's leg that made it almost impossible to walk. For no reason the right leg cramped up in severe pain. Fortunately there was just about a mile and a half of trail left. Old Kadizzle managed to hoble back to the truck. 

Sadly the Denver gang leaves today. A long drive from here to Denver, but they will get to see a lot of nice scenery.  

Terrible Turkey

The turkey did not turn out well. Mrs. Kadizzle says it was just a bad turkey. Some suspect it had a membership to a gym. 

We can all be thankful the Trumpers have been set on the run. Kadizzle is very thankful Kari Lake bit the dust. Since we now live in Arizona having a mental case for governor would be hard to endure. 

Will the Hooples regroup? Democrats need to ask Biden to find a good nursing home. He is just too old. The country needs new blood. If that old goat Trump runs and the Democrats run a young person it will attract young people. 

 The Hooples know they have been cheated and lied to by politicians, they just don't know which ones. Trump plays on this. The working man has been cheated. Frank and Jeff B. think it was the Democrats that cheated them. Frank and Jeff B. think Democrats gave the money to the poor. Well that ain't so. Republicans gave the money to the rich. 

Of course Frank, and Jeff B. don't read the NYT, but today an article points out the rich are doing just fine as inflation beats the hell out of the poor. 

Gun violence has become insane in this country. Last week we averaged a mass shooting a day. Wow, gutless politicians. Of course playing to the Hooples with gun fear is one foundation of the Republican party. They are coming to get our guns. That crap started with Reagan, and fifty years later the armed Hoopleheads are still in the grocery store, and kids are shot up at random. We must be ready for the invasion. Kadizzle noticed one of the worker bees had his pickup truck door open and there was his gun, ready to blast away evil. The worker bees don't know the real robbers use tax breaks to steal from them. 

This gets us to taxes. Since we have moved into our home a good deal of time is spent watching the other homes being built. Everyone gets paid in cash, there is no workers comp, unemployment or anything else. It all works great until there is a problem.  A major problem is retirement. None of these people will have any savings or social security. Then what? Then you have to smoke cigarettes and work until you die. You can see the old guys trying to eak out a living doing the easier work. They are shot up from years of labor. There will be a tidal wave of poor people coming down the pike. Wages have gone nowhere for working people. The poverty bomb is going to explode. Poor people cannot afford to live near the rich. Slum shacks are crammed in where ever they can put them. 

The classic case of this are the ski resorts like Vail, and Aspen. Poor people have to catch a bus to go take the garbage out for the rich. The poor workers live in a town away from the shining empire. 

One thing Frank and Jeff B. should look into is what does Trump pay his slaves? Trump claims he has billions, but will he pay the slaves picking cotton at Mar a Lago a decent wage. The answer is hell no. Trump is famous for stiffing workers. Of course the ill informed don't know this do you Frank, Jeff B. 

Melungeon

 Yesterday the Snoocher Bear introduced her dad to a new word. The word is Melungeon.  What is a Melungeon? Apparently it is a mixed race person from back in the hills. Ideally it would be someone negro, white, and native American. Abraham Lincoln may have been Melungeon, and so was Elvis Presley.

The word is interesting. Somehow it reminds Kadizzle of the Hoopleheads. Perhaps the Melungeons, and the Hooples are related. If you attend a Tea Party meeting you might well think you are among a different breed of people. They believe Trump won the election, they believe there are child sex rings run by the Democrats, and of course they believe a gun can solve any problem. 

When you mix things together you often get strange results. The worst mixture is mixing the Truth with a Republican politician until it comes out a lie. 

Kadizzle often thinks way back to his college days and the psychology courses he took.  Someone did an experiment where they bred all the dumbest rats to the dumbest rats. It developed a breed of stupid rats. On the other side they bred all the smart rats to the smart rats and got more smart rats. The good news is when they put all the rats back together they quickly reached average. 

Humans have a problem here. The smart ones do marry the smart ones, and the dumb ones do marry the dumb ones. The problem is too often the smart and the dumb do not cross breed. Another problem is the dumb ones often outnumber the smart ones because they have more children. What is the result? You know the answer, a lot of dumb ones who believe in Trump. 

Mixing up genes can turn out well.  Lincoln and Elvis proved that. Can your cure stupid? Maybe, you can. The school system is our only hope. Republicans know the ignorant are there to be abused and want the most ignorant they can produce. That is why Republican promote charter schools, home schools, and poor teacher pay. 

Another history lesson. Kadizzle at one time worked in the coal fields of southern West Virginia. The coal companies needed a good supply of stupid people so they made sure the schools were terrible. It worked. People had no skill but shoveling to sell. Then something changed in the sixties. Mechanization came to the mines. Who would maintain the machines that were hydraulic, electrical, and soon to be computerized?

What a turn around, now the coal companies had to build their own trade schools and improve the public schools. Dumb was fine, but too dumb did not get the job done. Once people got smart they formed unions, just one more problem, and one more thing the Republicans had to destroy. 

Footnote: While researching Melungeons Kadizzle came across other names for them. One name struck home. Sometimes they were called Scotch Irish. As a child Kadizzle would sometimes ask what nationality the Quinns were. The answer was often Scotch Irish. Could Kadizzle be a Melungeon?

Explosion at the waist line

As Kadizzle and Snoochel play Uno, the cooks labor away on what will be another epic meal. When this gang gets together there is serious cooking. Fran is an expert chef and made the best meat for fajitas one can imagine. As a bonus the Snoocher Bear made a fine mixed drink with a spicy flavor. This all as a build up to Thanksgiving. 

Gravity will register on the scale like never before. Most of the crew still sleeping while a sunny windy day gets started in the mountains. 

Kadizzle has turned the exercise routine into a hunt for golf balls. Sometimes more than once a day Kadizzle drifts down the mountain on the ebike to scout for chicken eggs along the golf course. It is always a surprise to see how the chickens did laying eggs. Warm weather results in more eggs as the golfers blast the golf balls into the wilderness. Surprisingly yesterday yielded five chicken eggs. 

 The irony is Kadizzle does not golf. The treasure trove of golf balls now exceeds 200. If you are a golfer and are willing to pay the postage the golf balls are free. 

Looking for a place to sell the golf balls Kadizzle ran across a company that says it processes 30 tons of golf balls a year. That is amazing. Getting the lost balls out of the woods, streams and fields is not a bad idea. 

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Burning the furniture

Kadizzle is not a great reader of entire books. The mind cannot concentrate, but Kadizzle does remember being told about the book Angela's Ashes. The Irish family was so desperate for heat they burned the furniture, and even tore into the walls for wood. 

That sums up the Republican Party. For the country to stay afloat people must pay taxes. Republicans want the heat of tax cuts so bad they are burning the country. This works until you have to burn the exterior walls. We are close to that point. 

How can you tell the Republicans are burning the country? Look at the infrastructure. The bridges are falling down, the schools are producing idiots, and the bums are littering the streets. Why do the billionaires need more, more, more. It is a mental illness. How many cars, boats, houses, do you need? Never enough should be the mantra of the Republican Party. 

Is the tide turning, is the fog lifting

Can the country return to normalcy? People like a level of excitement, and politics can certainly provide it. Shootings have become like the sports page. What team shot how many people? Very sad the country has come to accept shootings just like we accept Republicans trashing the Capitol. Who cares? The coffee is brewing the furnace works and the refrigerator has plenty of food.

On unique thing about our new country is the isolation of the wealthy. They don't live among us any more. They don't step over the bums, or see the slump shacks. Instead they live in splendid isolation. They don't travel with common folks on commercial airlines, nope even on the water their boats don't mix with the slummers. 

Way back in the victorian era the rich used to pay for tours of the slums. Maybe it was enlightening. If the wealthy could see the destruction they have wrecked on our country maybe their conscious would come alive. 

Of course the greedy take no responsibility. The poor are the cause of their own problems. Republicans have made the poor so stupid the poor cannot figure out what happened to them. 

Confusion and diversion are the essence of a good card trick. Kadizzle has been teaching Sylvie a couple of card tricks. As Sylvie has figured the presentation means a lot. At a Tea Party meeting you can see the confusion and diversion in action. The greatest diversion is immigration. While the rich steal Frank, and Jeff B. blind from New York and California, Frank and Jeff B. stare at the border. Taxing the rich is the solution, but Frank and Jeff B. thing a good gun can solve the problem. 

Who stole the money? It is a simple question with a simple answer. The person who stole the money will have the money. The immigrants don't have the money Frank, nor do the welfare cheats. You are broke because someone took all the cheese, who was it? Strange that the most rotten rats with the most cheese support, guess who? Could it be Trump?

Trump pulled the greatest trick ever on Frank and Jeff B.  Trump upped their cheese allowance for a few years and at the same time gave his buddies 800 billion in tax breaks. Now the cheese ration for Frank, and Jeff B. will soon expire, but the tax breaks for Trump's friends have no end date. Wow, Frank, Jeff B. did you figure that out?

Day Two

The gang will go to the golf course for breakfast. Yesterday we hiked to the Spanish Ruins. A great hike, Kadizzle forced the ebike up the steep road. The Spanish Ruins are certainly a strange sight. Kadizzle cannot comprehend why there is not a shred of pottery. 

Watching the Trump drama unfold is interesting. Rational Republicans realize it is time for the clown to go, but the Hoopleheads loved the clown act. At some point everyone has seen enough clown cars. What a  show. You have Ted Cruz, lying Ted as Trump calls him. Then a piece of work hard to beat Marjory Taylor Green. Kari Lake tried to out do her for insanity, but lost anyway. 

Some good articles in the NYT today. Also a funny article on CNN about two fake wrestlers. One pretends to be a liberal and they tour Hooplehead country. 

Had fun with Sylvie riding the ebikes. She is so tall she barely fit on Winky's ebike. Showed Sylvie how to hunt for the chicken eggs (golf balls gone astray).

The worker bees showed up early as always to lay paving stones in our little culdesac. There are five homes in our circle. Two are complete, two have a couple weeks to go and one at least a month. It will be nice to have the construction over. 

One NYT article mentioned what Kadizzle always does. The Republicans are about nothing but tax breaks for the rich. Will Frank and Jeff B ever figure this out. No, they will always be victims of the lies and fantasy of the Trump cult. 

So here goes another day. The Snoocher Bear is up tasting the caramel roll. The Wooly Brumpus is wandering around the house sniffing, and Daddylonglegs is still in bed. 

From the North

 After much anticipation the offspring from Denver arrived. The gorgeous granddaughter has sprouted like a bean to almost the height of grandpa. Danny the dog cannot seem to explore the house enough. Perhaps the smell of strange animals and dogs has him puzzled. 

So the Thanksgiving week will be off to a start. Indeed we have a lot to be thankful for. Of course there are some minor colds and lingering touches of covid, but all in all the gang has prospered and the grandchildren are all geniuses as planned.

Cooking up some adventures around here will be on the agenda. It might be nice to take the gang to the Spanish Ruin, or the massive Tonto Arch. 

With a gaggle of good cookes eating will be an undertaking. 

Rat convention in Las Vegas

Who will be the new rat king? Republican rats gathered in Las Vegas to fight it out. Ted Cruz who lies with the best of them said Trump still has power. Some are tired of losing. Anyway a good article about the coming rat fight is in the NYT. All the sleezy liars were there discussing who could gin up the Hoopleheads best. 

 

Can you break through to Jeff B. and Frank?

Below is another stolen Youtube post about skepticism. It is here for Frank and Jeff B. The question is can they break our of the cult by opening up their minds? Probably not. However, it is always fun to try to teach a dog a new trick. Thinking is not an easy trick to teach someone who lives in a world of Trump lies, and invasions by immigrants, but lets give it a try.  

Skepticism: Why critical thinking makes you smarter | Bill Nye, Derren B...

Sports betting

 How to get rich. When the money goes by take a pinch. That is the essence of sports betting, casinos, and insurance. The New York Times today has a big article on sports betting. There are hundreds of ways to rape the Hoopleheads, and they have taken a beating. Republicans steal from the Hooples with tax breaks for the rich. Merely tell the Hooples a story about trickle down. Then investment industry robs billions by managing peoples money. What they manage is to steal billions. Then there are the credit card companies. 

To create any illusion you need believers. At the casino there is the story about the grandma who hit the big one. Then the lottery has some guy get almost two billion. Next week it will be me. The oldest scheme was to sell heaven. That one still works. All con men know the basics. First, tell people what they want to hear. Next show them someone who benefited from the scam. Oh yes, the good old ponzi scheme. 

Back to the new sports betting fiasco. The first step was to bribe all the legislators. The legislators in old times were supposed to protect the Hooples from themselves. It used to be good people knew that a Hoople with a dollar in his pocket was easy picking. Feed them lies. Trump mastered that. Most of the Hooples don't realize they have gone backwards to benefit the billionaires. Real wages have declined by over 12% for the Hooples. Frank and Jeff B. are in a daze wanting to be abused more by the Republicans. 

Health care in the United States is one of the biggest rip offs in the world. Very little of the money spent for health care goes for caring, instead it is soaked up by insurance companies, and the pharmaceutical industry. Just like sports betting it is just a matter of bribing some congressmen to let you rape the Hoopleheads. 

Now for the icing on the cake. Keeping the Hoopleheads dazed and confused is not only the role of Fox News, but Fox News makes money feeding the Hooples nonsense. Wait, you want candles on the cake. No problem. All the right wing propaganda get to sell the victims gold scams, pillow scams, credit card protection scams and of course worthless vitamins. 

In the old days when Kadizzle was a kid the Fulton Carnival was a big event. A bunch of derelicts rolled into town and set up tents to shake down the locals. Kadizzle remembers one of the games. You tossed quarters onto a pile of glassware. There were wine glasses, plates, and a lot of what appeared to be nice glass ware. If your quarter stayed on the plate or in the cup you got to keep it. Someone explained to Kadizzle that the plates and glassware cost about a nickel a piece.  No matter what happened you lost. 

A friend recently thought he had it made when his truck broke down. He had purchased an extended warranty for 90 dollars a month. Confidently he took the truck to a local car dealer only to find out the warranty was worthless. The poor guy and his wife are busted flat. A life of work and the scammers are still beating on the guy. The real crime of the scammers is they love old people. Old people grew up on old fashioned trust. In the old days more people were inclined to be honest. Now, Trump has shown them you can become president by lying to stupid people. Sadly other like Ted Cruz are practicing the art of lying to get ahead. The recent election showed the power of deception. 

Time for a second cup of coffee. Kadizzle went to be way to early so up early today with a coffee buzz. The kids will be here today. 

Thank you for your comments.

Kadizzle never really paid attention to the comments on this blog. Now that family has prohibited Kadizzle from engaging in Facebook nonsense this is a new outlet. Feel free to comment. It makes the mess more fun.  

Memories of our past explorations.

Years ago when Kadizzle first retired hunting ancient Indian sites was our passion. Surfing Youtube today Kadizzle came across a very nice tour of the Butler Wash area. We spent many days exploring this area, and it is one of the most spectacular you can visit. The person who did the video did a good job of producing the feeling you get when you explore the area. 

These days we still explore sites in the area where we live, and there are some amazing sites here. We have visited hundreds of these sites and still have hundreds to find. A simple reality is that the harder the site is to get to the better it will be. Sadly the easy sites have been picked clean and abused. Kadizzle has met many pot hunters. The pot hunters are the scourge of the sites. They dig up and ruin a lot of places simple to steal artifacts. The Mormons did extensive damage to the sites in Utah. 

GPS has also made finding sites easier. What does that mean? It means dingers can find the sites. There are some Trump like people who actually do not like native Americans and deliberately destroy sites. Of course graffiti, and other lowlife art can ruin a site. A site close to a highway does not stand a chance. 

Maybe you can forgive the rancher that stole the stone to build a house. If you come to the southwest and want to visit some remote sites get in touch with us. We would be glad to host you. Exploring these sites is very enjoyable and good excercise. 

Long ago Kadizzle was exploring a site when Rodger dislodged a tire sized and shaped rock. The rock rolled down the steep hill toward Kadizzle. Rodger yelled just in time. The rock became airborne and Kadizzle pulled his head back just in time or he would have been killed. The sheer number of sites is amazing, and most people would not comprehend the extent of the civilization that once was in the southwest. White men stole a vast empire for the Indians, and now the Indians are trying to get even with casinos. 

Trail Of The Ancients, Part 3, Butler Wash Ruins

Reading The New York Times with Frank and Jeff B.

 In the lounge at the Tea Party meeting Kadizzle sat down with Frank, and Jeff B. Kadizzle handed each of them a copy of The New York Times. Kadizzle told them it was the Fox News gazette. Soon something that sounded like a steam whistle went off. It was the steam shooting out Frank's ear. He must have read what Maureen Dowd said about the Trumpster. Then something sounded like the loudest fart you ever heard it was Jeff B. passing steam out the other end. Who knows what Jeff B. read, but reality has that effect on Hoopleheads. 

You can read real reporting by people who are journalist, educated economist, scientist, and qualified. That is not the recipe the Hoopleheads follow. Instead they get a goofy idea. Step two is to find someone else who has the same insane outlook on the world, then tune in. Fox News knew there was a market for lies, just as Trump did. What the right wing media realized was the depth of stupidity. Few people thought there was an ocean of Franks and Jeff Bs. 

Go to the grocery store. See that guy wearing a gun, or look at gun man down at the Republican headquarters. Do you think those guys read The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, or watch PBS, the BBC or anything real. Hell no, those guys tune in to Alex Jones, Hannity, or Tucker. Truck drivers eat at Truck stops, and Hoopleheads eat at Fox News. 

The people who deal with reality generally live on the coast. The educated people live on the east coast and the west coast. What is in between? There are information deserts in between. 

Long ago and far away, Kadizzle went to work in Bluefield, West Virginia. It was an information desert. Kadizzle thought he might get a Time Magazine, or a Newsweek to read. Kadizzle searched every drug store, and magazine rack. There was no real information anywhere, but if you wanted to read about guns, goofy trucks, or some other simple minded idiocy the information was plentiful. We moved from a small town in North Dakota. Same thing, magazine racks full of crap, but no material that went beyond high school. 

Go to someone's home. What magazines are on the coffee table, what is the TV tuned in to? The old saying was " You are what you eat". Now think about what you feed your brain. Check out the Tea Party web site. Yes, you are right, you will find reality bent and twisted until it breaks. 

Sickness stalls Thanksgiving

The clan was to gather for turkey day, but the New York contingent is sick, and the Virginia members are afraid to travel. That leaves only the Denver group to join us. It will not be the Thanksgiving holiday we expected, but at least we will get to see a few of the gang. 

Thinking about the spread of disease, and viruses one can only imagine what happened to the native people here hundreds of years ago. No one knows for sure, but they may have been wiped out by disease. A lot of people disappeared from the southwest. 

Apparently God has plenty of disease, and cancer to go around. A strange aspect of the distribution is how God has left our some people who could use a good dose of bunghole cancer. Trump is who Kadizzle has in mind. Given the choice between striking down some innocent child and Trump, God choses the child? He must be busy choosing the winners in football games.

Kadizzle went to the Jesus thrift shop. The current Jesus was behind the counter. Figuring out how the mind of a person drunk on religion works is like putting a jigsaw puzzle together. Junior Jesus and Kadizzle engaged in a discussion about logic, science, and theory. The ability of those in the fog to take a small dose of fact and spin it is amazing. Jesus claimed the Earth was rotating on two axis. In one sense it is. The Earth does have an axis in regard to the sun, and it also has it's own axis which wobbles. However, the two should not be confused. Yup, the thrift store Jesus mixed them together and came up with some new science. It is the same science based on Hunter Biden's laptop. 

This brings us to the mess the Republicans are about to embark on. With the mentally ill now in control of the House, investigations will flourish.  Since the Democrats have caught the big fish, the Republicans will line the shore to catch any fish they can. That will prove Trump is a saint and should be president. Hooplehead logic in  action.

Megan in the Kitchen

Put on a show while your rob Frank, and Jeff B.

Back in the old days the con men that visited the western towns would put on a show while they duped the Hoppleheads. Don't think Republicans have learned nothing. Now that Republicans control the house, the show will begin. Hunter Biden will be the star, and then a lot of side shows will follow. As the Republicans rape the Hoopleheads with tax breaks for the rich, Frank, and Jeff B. will be treated to investigations. Republican con men will stir up conspiracy theories, lies, and the usual fodder for the Tea Party. Frank and Jeff B. will tune in to Fox with delight as their future gets dimmer. Cannot resist showing another W.C. Fields just for Frank and Jeff B. 

Cures All Kinds of Hoarseness

Kari Lake Fired the lie cannon

It took a little time for Kari Lake to craft a story and a lie about losing the election in Arizona for governor, but of course she finally did. You have to give Blake Masters some credit, at least he admitted he lost. The sponges at the Tea Party will soak up Kari Lake's lie like they always do. Like Trump's lies Kari Lake's lies have some major flaws. If all Democrats won, then that might work when Kari tells her story, but it did not happen that way. If someone had a magic way to cheat why would they let some other big fish lose like Tom O'Halleran? 

Logic does not penetrate the cults mind. Kadizzle missed the last Tea Party meeting, but it sure would have been fun to see the spinning. Scott Hennen the North Dakota mental case that had his mini Rush Limbaugh radio show said the Republicans had a great election. That is also the spin on all the right wing fantasy shows. The Trumpeteers went down in flames, but the dingers are confused and dazed. Below is a clip from a W.C. Fields movie. Watch carefully as W.C. Cheats at cards. W.C. Fields would have made a perfect Donald Trump or Kari Lake. 

Watch carefully. W.C. Fields doesn't bother to look at his opponents card, when he draws a king, then he says " It's a gentleman's game". W.C. Fields draws a two, but claims it was an ace. The guy with the gun is fooled. W.C. should go to the Tea Party meeting with a deck of cards and pick the fruit. There is another great skit where W.C. Fields has five aces. Another player has four aces. W.C. Fields desparately tries to get rid of his extra ace. When the cards are shown two players each have four aces.  Then the guy with the gun says, " The first person to get four aces wins".  It all is so much like the Republicans and how they lie, and cheat. 

Excerpt from My Chickadee

Up Early in the Earth Module

Old Kadizzle is up early in the Earth Module. The sleeping here is good with cool desert air and perfect quietness. Cliff stayed with us two nights. Yesterday we cleaned the rest rooms for Jackie. Jackie will arrive on the weekend and the trail crew will be complete. 

The Forest Service held a nice get together for all the volunteers. The head ranger accurately said the volunteers are crucial to making the place work. Since Republicans have shoveled all the money to the rich, there is no money for the common people. The result is the Kadizzles and so many others work for free to make sure the rich have their yachts. This is the true trickle down. The coffee trickles down to the pot and we get up to work for free. Up on the mountain to clear the trail we will go. 

The poor take the brunt of the attack by the Republicans. If you go to a Tea Party meeting you can see the people shot up by poverty brought on by Republican greed. As if that is not good enough, the Republicans with Frank and Jeff B. want to destroy social security. Shooting off your own foot is good target practice. 

Why is Frank, Frank?

Frank with his buddy Jeff B. are thugs for the Tea Party, but what makes them believe in the cult? Kadizzle did an experiment this morning. First he looked at normal news, Heath Cox Richardson, The New York Times, CNN, and NBC. Normal news reported the loss of Kari Lake right up front. Fox News, had stories the Republicans did well and did not mention the Trump losses the Republicans suffered. 

Do Frank and Jeff B. pay attention to anything but right wing propaganda? No, they feast on anyone who will feed them the party line. Two nut cases the Hoopleheads love won locally. Eli Crane, and Wendy Rodgers won. They are the worst candidate's you can imagine, but here in Hoople country that is what it takes. They won because of the lack of normal people in this infested area. 

It would be interesting to have Fox News call a horse race. Somehow one of the horses that crossed the finish line late would be declared the winner. Wait, that already happened Trump lost. Whoa, something is crazy here. Fox got in a lot of trouble with the Hoopleheads when Fox told the truth about Trump losing. 

Frank and Jeff B. live in a different world where Santa still brings presents and Joe Biden has a dial in the oval office to set gas prices. 

If Republicans can pull it off the whole world will be explained to us all when we get to look at Hunter Biden's laptop. 

Kadizzle has been patiently waiting for Kari Lake and Blake Masters to explain how they were  cheated out of the election. 

How will the cult react? The cult will press on with more conspiracy, more lies, and more Trump hats. 

The whole thing reminds Kadizzle of the W.C. Fields skit. Fields is in a rowboat.  As he paddles the boat is clearly sinking from a leak. Fields declares " Ah yes, the river is rising".  Yesterday the scale in the bathroom was lying again. It is a liberal scale and tried to tell me the potato and rib eye steak were making me gain weight. Congress needs to investigate the company that made that scale. Kadizzle rode the bike yesterday and walked a little, so that scale must be wrong. Hunter Biden has something to do with this. 

The best news of all is poor old Ted Cruz said " I am so pissed off". Like a fool he must have realized what happened to the Republicans. However, as a good leader of the Hoopleheads he made a great spin out of it and blamed it on Mitch McConnel. Mitch said the Republicans would lose because they picked lousy candidates? That damn Mitch always telling too much truth. Of course the Democrats were happy to help the Hoopleheads pick losers. The Democrats supported the crazies like Masters, and Kari Lake, it worked. Normal people know how to spot the insane, the Democrats capitalized on that talent. 

The reaction to Trump announcing his plan to totally destroy the Republican party will be today's big news. The more crazy Trump forces the Hoopleheads to be the better. Republicans that still have functioning brain cells are abandoning the row boat Trump is rowing. They can see the boat is leaking, and the river is not rising. 

Wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Blake Masters was going to come to the local Tea Party as part of his victory tour. Unfortunately at the Tea Party meeting on Tuesday it will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Kari Lake finally bit the dust. Of course the conspiracy theories and lies will fly like snowflakes to explain how they both really won. 

Kadizzle checked the Tea Party site. Of course they reported the terrible showing as a victory. It was a red wave according to the Tea Party post. Maybe they should share it with Ted Cruz who said he has never been so pissed off. The reality train left the Tea Party long ago.  

The Mind is Fried looking for chicken eggs

Mrs Kadizzle has explained to the old man that his mind has fizzled and the craziness is out of control. Kadizzle might have to agree. In the old days we used to hunt pheasants. The pheasant popped up from nowhere and you shot it. The real goal was to get outside and get some exercise. People who go to a room and lift weights amaze Kadizzle, how  boring.  

Kadizzle now lives at the top of a steep hill. This means going up the hill increases the heart rate. Why go down the hill? This is where the chicken eggs come into the picture. OK, they are not really chicken eggs, but golf balls. How do the two relate? If chickens can roam freely they might lay an egg anywhere. If you are the farmer you have to find the eggs. To get exercise Kadizzle finds the chicken eggs around the golf course. How many eggs a day do the chickens lay? On an average day the chickens lay four eggs. On a good day, which is usually the weekend the chickens might lay eight or nine eggs. 

Marty gave Kadizzle some good advice about picking up golf balls, don't pick up the ones that are rolling. What can you do with 200 golf balls? Giving them away is a simple solution. Kadizzle went to the golf course the other day for breakfast. Kadizzle gave the waitress 18 golf balls in an egg carton. Kadizzle told the waitress to give a golf ball to the golfer when it was time to give him his check. Tell him " here is the golf ball you lost".  Hopefully this will bring the waitress a bigger tip. 

As time goes on Kadizzle has figured out more spots where the chicken eggs might be found. It is like panning for gold or using a metal detector. 

The rules of golf are not followed closely. Often a golfer will hit his first ball into the forest, and just tee up another one. One stretch of the golf course is next to a row of homes. Golf balls rain down in the backyards and sometime lie on the street or in the front yard. 

Modern golfers often use brightly colored golf balls. That makes it more like an Easter egg hunt. 

There are competitors for the chicken eggs. One guy says he has 700. The people on golf ball street say they have a five gallon bucket of chicken eggs. 

The golf ball circuit is about five and a half miles. Now the bad news, the scale has not budged and inch. 

The Election confirms It.

What if half the people you meet were idiots? Sadly that is not a what if, the election proves it is true. Only and idiot would vote for Kari Lake or that Finchem goof. Look at Finchem, he took part in the Capitol invasion, and well over 40% of the dolts voted for him. With redistricting the Hoopleheads got Eli Crane into office. Arizona is only inches away from Hitler. Intelligence won by a frighteningly slim margin. 

The rich thrive on dolts. Wealthy people want tax breaks more than air, and they know a population of peasants can give them the life they crave. Have we progressed from a feudal society? No, it has just been fine tuned. In the old days the Church was the major source of crazy ideas, now the Republican Party has teamed with the Church to spread bizzare ideas. 

As mentioned so many times our education system has plunged. Kadizzled has been saddened so many times by meeting someone homeschooling their children. They might as well give them a lobotomy. On the other side of the coin the wealthy send their kids to the very best schools. What is the result? The result is the rich have the mental tools to exploit the poor, and they do.

Illusion is the tool of magicians, and crooks. There is no shortage of food, clean air, or decent housing. Our social problems are distribution problems. The rich create the illusion that they are benefactors entitled to way more than they deserve. What is the result? Poverty. 400 families have half the wealth in this country, but Frank and Jeff B. thing it is immigrants, and welfare cheats that cause want. Someone created that illusion. Could it be Fox News, Donald Trump, Karil Lake, and Ted Cruz? 

Fooling dolts goes back to ancient times. Remember when you could buy a piece of the cross? Now, you can buy  a Maga hat.  This is 2022 and people put a sticker on their car or a hat on their head to let you know they don't have a clue. 

Kadizzle was walking down the street in New Zealand and there was an American wearing a MAGA hat. Kadizzle told the old goat what an embarrassment he was. 

One thing that used to be taught by parents was for children to keep their mouth shut so others would not know how dumb they were. All that has changed. Now you can advertise your ignorance with pride. Fly a flag on the pole in your yard proclaiming Trump is King. The entire neighborhood will know you are mentally challenged. 

As others have said we are living on the edge. If those with functioning brain cells do not prevail, we are toast. Climate is just as bad as elections. The margin is slim for humans to correct the mess we have made. 

 

The Piano Fountain - Wellerman (Sea Shanty)

Can't resist junk.

The garage has a scanner, one dollar. Bought some strange device not even sure what it is. The thing is stainless steel, always hard to resist and think it may be a nutcracker one dollar. Did by three nice patio chairs for twenty dollars. Sometimes it is the price, and sometimes a hoarding gland. Kadizzle has been trying to get the lady at the Jesus store to come down on a bathroom vanity. It is brand new and would make a nice work table in the garage. She will not budge enough. 

The absolute crap that goes around in circles here is amazing. Decorations are common. Some of this junk must see one hundred garage sales before it hits the trash bin. There was a guy down at the church parking lot reselling junk. Kadizzle had a friend who made money reselling crap. He had a knack for knowing what to buy from idiot A to sell to idiot B. His garage sale was all resell. 

The best bargains come from the wealthy who don't give a damn about price. Very good furniture can be had cheap in the rich neighborhoods. The rich have nothing better to do than redecorate the home every other year. 

You see birds in the parking lot making a living from dropped food. That is how it feels shopping the junk sales. 

Who are these people?

14% of the blog readers are now from Vietnam? Go figure. The Russians have dropped down to third place with 72 Russians. Six Ukrainians are reading, and second place goes to Canada with 100. There is a comment section on this blog. Would love to hear from Ukraine, or Vietnam. All others are welcome, even my Tea Party buddies.  

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Will this video help Frank? Will Frank watch it? Will it be quickly dismissed because the woman uses big words and seems too educated? Will it be thrown out because she sites studies and data? How will we over come the resistance to real facts?

Worse than senseless scum.

Way, way back in the young life of Kadizzle he worked at the Burger Chef on National Road in Wheeling, West Virginia. Kadizzles worked with the Whale. That is what we called Mike Whalen. Kadizzle also played on the football team with the Whale. Flipping burgers the Whale would call people " Worse than senseless scum".  Some things stick in your mind. 

 As predicted Black Masters, and Kari Lake are challanging the election results in Arizona. They  truly meet the criteria for worse than senseless scum. Both amoebas have a big problem, it is a Republican in charge of the counting. So according to them Republican A is cheating Republican B so the Democrats can win. Does this make any sense Frank?

Keep in mind before the election Kari Lake said she would only accept the results if she won. Will the fog at the Tea Party lift? 

Alone on the mountain

The supreme commander is down at the lake making the country safe for democracy. Meanwhile old Kadizzle is on the mountain. Kadizzle got a few minor task done yesterday. Put down the pavers again to do a better job. The professionals made fun of Kadizzle's last job. 

Met another new neighbor yesterday. Meeting new people has been a great change for our new life in a new location. It must be like being in the witness protection program. 

The defeat of the Hoopleheads in the election has brought great relief, but the game is not over. When that final rat Kari Lake goes down it will be like having thorn removed. Of course the King of the Hooples is going to announce on Tuesday he will make another run at being King. Seems like the Republicans have just about had it with the clown. One great report of news was all but one of his secretary of state election thugs were defeated. 

Poor old Hooples will have to invent some new conspiracy theories. Kari Lake will no doubt scream she was cheated. 

Yesterday Kadizzle hopped on the motor cycle to ride down from the mountain. Two vans full of college kids were parked beside the steep slope leading down the hill. As the students stood in a flock, the geology professor pointed at the rocks on the side of our road. Kadizzle drove the cycle into their midst and listened to the lecture. The professor was very good, and Kadizzle thought he came from a top notch college. He was from a community college and they were lucky to have him. 

As the professor explained the layers of sediment and sandstone he mention the age of the rocks. Billions of years went by to form the material in front of us. Kadizzle wanted to ask the Jehovah's witnesses and Jesus down at the thrift store how billions of years took place in just six thousand. What would a mind high on Jesus think listening to a logical explanation of geology?

Kadizzle got to pop a few questions to the professor. One thing Kadizzle asked about was the rim. The rim is the landmark of all landmarks around here. According to the professor the rim was a retreating wall which once was over Phoenix. Very hard to imagine. Professor said it was the largest such escarpment in the world in length. You can see a lot just by looking, and you can learn a lot just by listening, a habit Kadizzle needs to work on. 

Hope Frank and Jeff B. did not take the election rebuke too hard. Being a thug is bad enough, but being a losing thug is even less fun. There will be wailing and screams of distress at the next Tea Party meeting. Black Masters the local pet of Trump promised to come right to the Payson Tea Party meeting after he won. Now he can take his gun down on the border and shoot some immigrants. Eli Crane did win. Crane needs to come get a copy of the Constitution at the next meeting so he can realize the country is not founded on lying, cheating, and stealing. Fox News is going to take a blow. Thankya Jesus for normal Americans. 

Today Kadizzle has a mission. For business reasons Kadizzle has adopted a bum. Finding the bum is a problem. The bum says he has more than one bum encampment. Yesterday Kadizzle went to the one bum encampment he has located. Bumore has not been at his tent for awhile. Someone or something else has been there. Kadizzle thinks a bear tore up Bumore's tent. It looks like the work of a bear searching for food, but the joint is a mess. Cold weather is hard on bums and when Kadizzle did find Bumore he said he moved into housing with a friend. Bums love Phoenix because they can thrive all year round. Kadizzle watched a Youtube video about how Finland eliminated homeless people. Finland just gave them a place to live. In our country we make the Bums meet certian goals before they get their own place. Finland figured it out. Give them a place to live, then they can meet the goals. 

When Kadizzle finally found Bumore yesterday, Bumore had a job. Bless Bumore he is trying to do better. Living in a house is critical for someone trying to work. Bumore is working in a fast food joint. Of course they are going to expect him to show up showered and clean. How can you do that when you don't have a home? The supply of workers is so low the businesses will not take the homeless. Hard to understand why a bumwalker would stand in front of Walmart when he could actually make money working at a hamburger joint. Of course the greed of corporations makes sure the people who want to leave the bum profession will have a hard time of it. Wait, Kadizzle has an idea. Why not have the big chains have bunkhouses for bums. In the old days of the cowboys the rancher provided food and place to sleep. Why not have a bunkhouse for bums behind Walmart. The bums could bring back the carts, clean the parking lot, unload the trucks. In exchange the bums could have a shower, a warm place to sleep, and a drug free environment. Even the slave were given shacks to live in. So the slaves had shacks in the old days, and now we will not even give them that?

Tricking the Hoopleheads

Kadizzle just checked the NPR news for today. An article caught his attention. The article centered on how the Democrats supported the goofiest Republican Hoopleheads. It worked. Democrats knew that if they helped the most far right wing Hooples win in the primary it would be more easy for a normal person to beat a mental Hoople. It may have given the Hooples more votes, but not enough to win. Perhaps that is how Kari Lake lost. Democrats let her spotlight her stupidity and lying. Normal people saw her for what she is,  a min Trump nut case. When the real election came it was the normals against the Hooples. 

 Now this may have backfired. Eli Crane is not normal, but it appears he won. Some of the Hooples won due to redistricting. In Arizona there are pockets of Hoopleheads that are almost overrun by the vermin. The crazy system of elections in the United States allow dolts to get elected. Look at Trump, here is an obvious lying mental case that lost the general election, but the Hooples got their King because of the electoral college. Redistricting does the same thing for the Hoopleheads.  

Kadizzle has written about this too many times, but it bears repeating. The Hooples get a free 27%. It is the car dealer against the high school dropout. Who is going to win? Who wins when TV preachers rape their flock? You don't sway the simple minded with logic, nope smoke mirrors, and fear are the grease  you use on the Hooples. Democrats always think you can speak to the ill informed and teach them something. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Republicans know better than to use logic on the mentally challenged. Just say to the dinger " What about Hunter Biden's laptop". You got em, reel em in in and tell them about how Joe Biden raised the price of gas and is going to get their gun. Put them in the creel. 

Eli Crane is a perfect example who got elected. Eli stood in front of the Tea Party and told them after three tries he made it into the Navy Seals. Also Eli told them how as the navigator for his group he made the mistake of using an outdated map. Another clue Eli gave the Tea drinkers was that he was not actually that smart. Apparently when Eli made it obvious he was just like them, they jumped right in a supported him. 

Up Early in the Engine Room

 In the background the furnace is running. 28 degrees outside, but it will warm to 58. Winky is down at the Lake in the Earth Module. Kadizzle is having the first coffee in the Engine room. Kadizzle took a punctuation video lesson yesterday. Most likely it will not help. Also studied people with strange minds that could memorize a deck of cards in 24 seconds, paint amazing picture and play incredible music as a child. 

While a few are struck with brains that can do amazing things, others have brains that run so poorly they voluntarily give the Apache casino their security checks. A strange world indeed. 

Democrats feel like they had somewhat of a victory. Kadizzle sees it as more of a plane that had the engines quit and glided safely to the ground. Shot at and missed. Global warming is still happening and the Hooples are still at the Tea Party in a daze. 

Trump is supposed to announce he will run for King on Tuesday. One good thing about Trump is he is self destructive. It takes awhile, but like most insane people he will implode. 

Remember those end of the world people waiting to be drawn into heaven. The rapture, that was the game. Hoopleheads are a version of that game. With certainty they are going to be drawn into another world. Even though it never happens they are sure it is coming. 

If the Republicans get an edge to investigate Hunter Biden's laptop all the answers will be there. Every Hooplehead once they get high on stupidity will start to tell you some story about the Federal Reserve, or the Jewish cabal. Of course somewhere in a secret room about ten or twelve people are running the world. More than likely they are sex deviants, that went to college. Don't worry, as long as we have guns we can hold them off. 

If you don't believe or understand all this the Tea Party has meetings to explain it. 

A story about a large lump. Cannot disclose the location because Kadizzle does not want to hurt the feelings of the large lump. Kadizzle encountered a large lump, perhaps the lump weighed over 400lbs. Since the lump was in a conversation group Kadizzle was about to join, Kadizzle introduced himself. The lump said " I know who you are, you are one of those guys who holds the sign about Trump". Kadizzle admitted he was a sinner. The lump said " Well I am the guy that gives you the finger"  Kadizzle said " Thats great, you could give me two fingers".  Lump responded " Well I have to keep one hand on the wheel".  

Life is what you make it. You can sit in the corner waiting to die, or you can get shot by an angry Hooplehead and speed up the process. 

Just got an email from my daughter. It contained a power point presentation from the Snoochel. The Snoochel is my brilliant granddaughter. The power point presentation carefully goes over her Christmas wish list. Who in the world makes a presentation about what they want for Christmas? There can be no excuses, if you don't get her what she wants. 

Grandpa loves to brag about the Snoochel. She is amazing. Among here many talents are the short videos she makes for various charities and businesses. As an amateur commercial actor the 13 year old has already made over 3K for her bank account. For her last check all she did was lay in bed with a thermometer in her mouth with her dog the Wolly Brumpus. The commercial was for veterinarians, and more than likely the Wolly Brumpus was the real star, but Snoochel got paid. 

The Fishing Spot and Kari Lake

 Back in the old days on Lake Sakakawea one thing that got fishermen upset was other guys moving in on them. A guy would be seen catching fish, so the other boats would move to his spot. Trump saw how you could use lies to catch Hoopleheads, this did not go unnoticed by the mini Trumps. Kari Lake running for governor in Arizona has used the same bate. Kari Lake moved in on the Trump lying technique.

Indeed it worked, Kari Lake is catching the same Hoopleheads Trump feast on. Lies are the best bait for Hooples. Trump lied about his taxes, he lied about cheating college students, and best of all he lied about winning. A brave liar is a dream come true for the Republican Party. What is better than a liar? Better than a liar is a person who can cook up and spread conspiracy theories. Alex Jones proved how bizzare you can be and make money at it. Fooling simple people goes way back in History as a money maker. Religion was the first scam. Convincing people the dead could come alive, people could walk on water, and be born from a virgin all were the original Trump tactics. People ate it up. People paid money to go to heaven. Now people pay money for Trump hats, and donate to a man who claims he is a billionaire. Every time Trump gets in a pinch he ask for money. Do your rich friends do that to you? Frank, and Jeff B. just can't figure it out. 

Leaving and coming back

 Being old involves a lot of pondering. Close to sixty years ago Kadizzle left his childhood neighborhood. Since then the place shrank. As a child the streets seemed wider, the yard seemed bigger, and the distances greater, with the hills higher, but now it all shrank. What shrank Woodsdale? 

Once Kadizzle saw how big the world was his little world was indeed little. An old friend used to say " He lives in a small world".  As Kadizzle has aged it has become apparent to him that humans are not what he thought. Kadizzle has gradually realized most humans are a pathetic bunch. At a younger age Kadizzle thought doctors, lawyers, judges, and so many professionals were much smarter than they have turned out to be. 

You don't know how cold it is outside until you put a thermometer out there. Maybe you thought it was thirty or fourty, but it is really 25 degrees outside. Donald Trump was the thermometer. Kadizzle never had a clue how simple minded Americans were until Trump showed up. 

The election has left Kadizzle's head spinning. How many Frank's and Jeff B's can there be?  Way more than anyone can imagine. The Hoopleheads have elected comic book characters. Clueless Eli Crane got elected because he was a Navy Seal after three tries, and Trump said he was OK. Wendy Rogers who is a blatant idiot is the darling of the brain dead crowd. 

Just say the magic words you learned from Fox News, and get Trump to let you kiss his ring, and the Hoopleheads will pee their pants to vote for you. 

How will the Hooples govern? How do you address groomers in school trying to homosexualize our children? How do you fight the immigrants invading us? What about the Chinese? It is one thing to tell people about ghost, but it is totally different when you are in charge of ghost control.

Jerry, just remember. It's not a lie... if you believe it...

All you need to know about the Republican brain. How do you explain Trump and the Hoopleheads. Are there really such people? Check Republican headquarters, attend a Tea Party meeting. 

What if half the population were idiots?

The election has shown a severe infestation of idiocy. The results have shown dolts make up half the population. People voted for Kari Lake, Eli Crane and other obvious mental cases. If you figure a lot of the most ignorant people don't even bother to vote, then you realize perhaps 60 percent of the population is living in a brain fog. 

How will this play out? Well if you let children drive the bus you can be assured the outcome will ultimately be a mess. Lets try to bring hope from despair. For the next two years the simple minded may have their way with our goverment. Once they crash the bus, even the Hooples will have to admit letting the children drive was a mistake. This should set the scene for a Democrat as president in 2024. Just a theory.

If you could live in Arizona and actually see people like Kari Lake, Wendy Rodgers, and Eli Crane you would be astounded. You know how it is when you can recognize someone is drunk, well it is not much different when you recognize a brain running on dead batteries. 

A strange thing about humans is they like people like themselves. White people like white people, and the Hoopleheads like Kari Lake. Most Hoopleheads were fooled by someone smart when they were young. Now the Hoopleheads just don't trust smart people. You need only look at the recent Covid mess. Smart people said get vaccinated. The Hooplehead response was " No, its a trick".

Hooples have very short memories, they forgot how polio was defeated with a vaccine. When Trump said he would show his taxes the Hooples forgot he said it. Trump lies, the Hoopleheads forget in a week or a day. 

One thing the Hooples just cannot see is how Trump turns on people. DeSantis in Florida and Trump were buddies, now that is imploding. Pence was Trumps buddy until Trump set him up to get hanged. Of course the Hooples don't remember this. The casino is a classic Hooplehead experiment. The Hoopleheads remember when they win and forget when they lost. 

Up Early

At 4:52 A.M. Kadizzle is awake. Had a great rib eye last night with the sister in law. Showed her around Payson a bit. Went to be too early with a nice glass of red wine.

Thin margins are holding back the Hoopleheads. The sheer volume of stupidity is scary. Can there really be that many delusional people? It aint over. Hope springs eternal. 

Kadizzle emanates from a family of 9 children, five of us are still breathing. There are a lot of relatives, and get togethers are rare, but becoming more frequent with age. For so many years everyone was busy raising children. Now the time has come for people to start cashing in. Sad, but we all have to cash out. 

Can we hold the Hoopleheads at bay? The wonderful thing about the Hooples is they are self destructive. The casino is full of Hooples doing their best to go broke, then you have the bonus of the lottery also draining the Hooples. What do you get with a lottery ticket? You pay two dollars to dream for a week. Selling false future dreams is an art the Republicans have mastered.

Yesterday Kadizzle had the classic political conversation with a construction foreman. Kadizzle and the foreman agreed the Democrats abandoned the working class, but Kadizzle urged the fellow to still vote for Democrats. Kadizzle told Richard the Republicans represented no one but the rich. Then the Hoople magic kicked in. Richard said " Well someday I hope to be rich, so I am voting Republican".  The odds of Richard ever becoming rich are slim, but the Republican trick always works. 

Now imagine this, the owner of a plantation stands on his balcony with all the slaves gathered below him. He ask the slaves " How do you like slavery".  In unison they all shout " It sucks". The plantation owner says " Have I got good news for you". " When I die I am going to have one slave name drawn out of a hat, and that slave will get to be the new plantation owner".  " Wow " the slaves shout " That is great, lets get to work, and fix up the plantation, because someday it will be mine".  "Great" says the plantation owner. " Go back to work and have a good day, and I will give free whippings to anyone who does not like the new plan".  Well Frank, and Jeff B. that is how it works, have fun picking cotton.

Republican have a lot of tricks up their sleeve and another favorite is the you are rich trick. Well you may not be rich, but next week you will win the lottery, and surely you don't want to pay taxes on those billions. So even if your roof leaks, your car doesn't run and you can't pay for anymore tattoos, you need to vote Republican, right Frank. 

Someone is going to get my stuff. That is another favorite Republican mantra. Of course they want to get your gun, but they want everything you have. That is why almost every yard in Hoopleland has a chain link fence with a no trespassing sign. It makes the areas where the slum warriors live look like hell, but it keeps the immigrants out. 

Kadizzle had a conversation with a wealthy friend in a wealthy community, and she is worried about the people from the border invading her home. She is about three hundred miles north of the border and her concern is absurd, but the Republicans have sold her on the idea. Most likely they want to rape her. The immigrants are indiscriminate. She is in her 70s. Now if you were a raping immigrant why not pick out a younger woman? Imagine you just walked from some central American country to the U.S. border. Now, the first thing you want to do is rape some Americans. That seems ridiculous, but Frank, and Jeff B. along with our friend think it could happen. Reality left the room. 

Another great Republican ploy that has always been a favorite are the homosexual recruiting school kids. Imagine a teacher telling the class "If you want to be gay, stay after school, and I can help you". All those that want to be communist or socialist please come on Friday. 

According to Republicans the Democrats are only interested in how to get other peoples stuff. The allies of the Democrats are the welfare cheats, and lazy minorities. Now that is a strange one. Everyday I walk out my garage door and who is pouring the concrete, laying the pavers, roofing the houses, putting up the walls, doing the gardening? Yes, it is those guys who came here to rape. They must have got side tracked or do all their raping and stealing at night. Imagine how hard it is to work all day and rape all night. That is what Frank, and Jeff B. are defending us good old white guys against. Now the wall might keep out the racist, but how are the gardeners and concrete guys going to get in?

The real wake up call is going to come as these huge factories are built around Phoenix. Someone is going to have to work there making the cars, the chips, and all the new things we want. Hmm, where will we get the worker? Japan has stalled for lack of a labor force, even China is having problems. All the teenagers in Payson are going to be welders, plumbers, or electricians. However they missed one thing. Everyday you have to get up and work. Kadizzle has seen the work ethic of the Payson teen. None of them last more than two weeks, most give up after a day or two. The problem is you don't get much done staring at your phone with a pile of cinder blocks in front of you. 

Ok, there are a lot of drugs coming from somewhere. One Payson industry is repairing the drug damaged brains. There are two ways to make money fixing addicts. You can sell the on the Jesus cure, or the traditional cure of counselling. Either way you can make some money. So you can see to keep busines going we need a steady supply of addicts. This is sort of like the immigrants. Illegal immigrants get paid cash. That keeps construction cost down and means some poor guy can take care of your yard for less. All these people working for cash will get no social security, nor will they pay in. Kadizzle gets a social security check, so he needs someone to work and pay for the system. Now the Republicans plan to destroy social security, and that will be one of  their main goals. Who will suffer? Yup, the Hoopleheads. 

The guy with the barking dog inside his chain-link fence is his own worst enemy. If he cannot destroy his life with gambling, smoking, and drinking, then he can have the Republicans rob him blind. So the game goes on rigged with rules that shovel tax breaks to the rich, and Frank and Jeff B love it. Trickle down has already worked so well. 

 

Bear with me, and forgive for repeating

For the benefit of some right wing readers Kadizzle has decided to have a review of the origin of Hoopleheads. In order to accomplish the lesson Kadizzle has posted below the scene from Deadwood where the two crooks are discussing business. To make sure Frank, and Jeff B. understand Kadizzle is posting the words they speak below.

How is business?

Hot and Cold. Trying to get a new crap game concept off the ground. 

It takes time to get the Hoopleheads to adjust. 

Sometimes I wish we could just hit them over the head, rob them and throw their bodies in the creek.

But, that would be wrong. 

This short little clip from the Deadwood series,  sums up the Republican Party. Frank, Jeff B. watch it carefully and think about it when you vote for Kari Lake today. 

Deadwood - Hooplehead bashing Season 1

Read this

Ok Frank, Jeff B. Kadizzle knows  you are no supposed to read anything based on reality. Maybe you don't read at all. NPR has an article today that has a Russian oligarch admitting he manipulates people like Frank, and Jeff B. You think those goofy ideas come from Kari Lake, and Blake Masters. Nope, the silly stuff is there with the help of Russia. Russia brought Trump to power. Deny it, but that does not change the fact the Russia mines the stupid people in America. 

No party in America ever had the backing of the Russians, until they stepped in on behalf of Trump. The Russians saw a stooge they could use. It is an awful feeling to admit you have been taken in by a scheme. So don't admit it, just let Fox tell you your pet mental patients invented the crazy world we are in by themselves. 

Look at the lies generated by the Republicans, sex rings, critical race theory, and on it goes. Yesterday Kadizzle spent a bit of time explaining to a guy at Home Depot how ammonium nitrate and diesel fuel are mixed to make an explosive. Each alone is harmless, but mixed you have a powerful explosive. Russia has realized that religion and right wing politics are the explosive force you can mix and destroy our country. The very people who buy  into the religious hocus pocus will buy into right wing lies. Trump quickly grasped how he could use the evangelicals to juice his lies. Jesus and Putin will bring us down. Who sends their kids to religious schools or home schools them? You guessed it, the Hoopleheads. Can we recover from the tsunami of lies launched by Trump, and fueled by the Russians? Today we will take our national IQ test. 

Don't bother reading this

What will it be like if the thugs win today. What if Frank and Jeff B. have their way? Don't bother reading this, read what Paul Krugman says in the NYT. Fascism is a breath away today. Frank and Jeff B. are pretend thugs today. If this election goes south real thugs empowered by the Hooples will be the American version of the morality police. 

A lot of people will pay the price for sitting on their hands, dismissing the Hoopleheads as harmless, and not paying attention. Today is the day our democracy ends. Today is the day the clock is set back to the time of Hitler. 

Kadizzle has about eight years to go on this planet, but my kids will have to live in the nightmare the Republicans have engineered. We all want out children to have it better, but the Republicans just shot the foot off of democracy. The poor will suffer the most, yet it is those on the low end of the economy who brought us the Trump thugs. 

As we sink into the mess how will Fox News report it? The Democrats will be gone. Who will they blame? Just like Hitler minorities will be attacked. History has shown us nothing. 

Hello Russians.

Just checked the statistics for this blog. If they can be believed there are 182 Russians following this nonsense. Nice to have you aboard my friends in Russia. Wow, you have a mess in your country and are causing one in ours. Putin does his best to mislead people. He lies as much as Trump. We got Trump, you got Putin. Of course you poor people in Russia have your Hoopleheads that believe Putin. Welcome to the club. You guys in Russia know your system is rigged. The Republicans here have made a mockery of democracy. If you want to see stupid in action just count the number of people tomorrow who will vote for Republican Nazis.  

Supposedly we are free in this country, but freedom has a strange ring to it now. We are free to watch Fox News, and believe Trump. We are free to be a dumb as we want. Old Krushev used to say " We will bury you".  Who ever dreamed the Russians would bury us with our own internet, Fox News, and The Donald. 

Nuclear weapons are child's play compared to nuclear lies. Even Russians used to propaganda would have a hard time believing the stuff fed to the Hoopleheads here. 

Thing may get way better for Putin and his cyber attacks. Should the Hooples win tomorrow feeding them crazy juice will be far easier. Trump and Putin have split our country with a lying ax. 

It would be great to get a comment from a real Russian. Have at it. If you come here and miss the communist party, Kadizzle can take you to a Tea Party meeting. That is our version of delusion. 

The Universe is sending a message

 Kadizzle is not big on superstition, religion, or most of the other hocus pocus. However, something strange is going to take place. Tuesday there will be a total eclipse of the moon. It will not happen again for three years. Does the moon know about the election. If you were a moon how else could you tell the people on Earth the world is about to change?

Anyone can make up insane ideas. Trump showed us that. Now Kadizzle wants to make up a crazy. What if all that empty space, out in space was really not empty. What if as we flew through space with our planet and solar system we flew clouds of rational thought, clouds of ignorance, and clouds of progress, and regression?

How do you explain an entire planet of humans all becoming idiots at the same time? How do you explain the sudden burst of knowledge for the whole planet?

Currently the solar system has drifted into a invisible cloud of right wing insanity. Just like a car that pass into and out of a fog, will we pass out of this fog? Ships wreck in the fog, planes crash in the fog. Will we? There has always been some fog. Religion is a fog that never lifts. People love a simple explanation for complex things. That is why Kadizzle just made up this nonsense. Cannot explain what is going on so just make up some silly explanation. Now, the next major trick is to believe you own lie. 

Tuesday Kadizzle will make his trip to the Casino. Now wait a second. Kadizzle will win for the 21st consecutive time. You think this cannot be. Kadizzle will win because he did learn something about statistics. On the other hand most of the people in the casino will lose. Those people losing their social security checks believe every sort of strange theory about slot machines being hot or cold or about to hit. Kadizzle read an article in a gaming magazine about ho to use a mantra while playing a slot machine. 

The Hoopleheads like Frank and Jeff B. never mastered the concept of cause and effect. That is how Trump makes them dance. Now, back to the slot machine. A slot machine operates on simple probability. You flip a coin and there is a fifty fifty chance one side or the other will come up. God didn't do it, your mantra didn't do it, nor did your rabbits foot. Now a strange thing does happen. The more you flip the coin, and if you keep track the more the toss will come toward the average. The casino knows this, but the Hoopleheads don't. Remember the Hoopleheads believe every lie they are told. The Casino knows that if the Hooplehead stays at the slot machine the Casino will get the Hooples money at the rate of ten percent. What does that mean? That means the Hoople will get back 90 dollars for every 100 he puts in. Let this go on long enough and the Hoople is broke. Of course you have to fool the Hooplehead to get him to stay there. So you let him win once in awhile. At least you make him think he wins. Hooples remember the wins, but forget the loses. That works great for the Republicans and the casino. What if you could get the Hooples to believe Joe Biden controls gas prices? Sure you can. You can get the Hooples to believe Democrats run sex rings. The Hooples are being bilked out of hundreds of billions of dollars with the lottery. The Hooples think they can win with odds of 200 million to one against them. Even if the Hoople wins the lottery still wins. The Hoople got one billion, the lottery got tens of billions and just gave the Hoople one billion. 

Hooples just plain do not understand math. The classic are crime figures. Republicans know how to fool Hooples with math, just like the casino. Crime is low compared to long time statistics. Of course on a day to day basis crime figures will go up and down, but that is a little complicated for the Hooples. 

Now look at gas prices. The Hoopleheads never ask " What should the price of gas be with normal inflation?"  OK, Hoople think about this, Kadizzle is 73 years old, he used to be able to buy a candy bar for ten cents at the drug store. Now that same candy bar even smaller is two dollars. Did Joe Biden do that? No that is inflation over time. Cigarettes used to fifty cents a pack. Now a pack of weeds is five dollars. Did Joe Biden do that? Lets get back to gasoline. One could argue that gas prices are actually low or about where they should be considering normal inflation, but Hooples do not understand economics, or math. 

Numbers confuse Frank, and Jeff B.  Here is an example. What kind of miles per gallon does a jet get? If you divide the miles the jet travels by the amount of fuel used you will come up with a figure that might make you think jets get poor milage. On the other hand if you divide the miles by the passengers you might be amazed that the jet passenger plane is getting about 22 miles per gallon per passenger. It is all how you paint the picture with numbers. 

Republicans know math is foreign to the Hooples so they feed them stuff like trickle down and crime. Republicans love to put ads on the TV claiming immigrants are criminals. Of course the guys at the Tea Party don't look at figures the way normal people do. The percent of immigrants that are criminals is way lower than the same percentage in any large city. This is where logic escapes the Hoopleheads. Listen closely Frank. If you were a criminal in any country south of the border it might be reasonable to assume you were better off economically than most of the people around you. The theory is crime pays. Now Frank, why would you leave and head for the border if you were doing OK in Mexico. Nope, you would stay. So who would head for the border? The people at the border are the ones not doing well, because they are honest hard working people the criminals exploit. Does this make sense Frank?

Another quick lesson for Frank. How do you spot a criminal. Well the robber usually is the guy with the money. Now think about this Frank, who has the money in the United States. Is it the guy living in the slums in a run down apartment with rats or is it the guy with multiple houses and a jet? Who stole the cookies Frank, the fat guy or the skinny guy? Republicans live and breath by diversion. While Frank is looking at the border the Republicans rob him blind with tax cuts for the rich. Wake up Frank. 

Here we go

Kadizzle feels like he slept pretty well last nigh. Last night was stage two of sleep monitoring. Kadizzle is taking a home sleep test. Results should be interesting.

Maybe the good sleep resulted from a long ebike ride. Took the newest ebike out on the forest roads. The bike performed well. The bike has a new system for data, not sure how much it is liked. To get the data you have to blue tooth  the phone to the bike. You get all the information the bike can give you. How much energy the bike provided, how much you provided, how much elevation change you had, your top speed, your average speed, you cadence, and a couple more things. It is interesting. However, having your phone on the handle bar can be problematic.

Found five chicken eggs yesterday. Well, they are not really chicken eggs but golf balls. For exercise Kadizzle rides the rim of the golf course and looks for chicken eggs.  If you ever worked on a farm you know the chickens might lay the eggs anywhere. Golf balls today come in very bright colors like bright green, orange, or yellow. Once in awhile you find a silver or gold one. That feature makes it like hunting Easter eggs. The golf ball collection is approaching 200. If you need any let Kadizzle know. 

This will be one of the strangest elections in my lifetime. The number of mentally challenged people on the ballot is staggering. Few good people are running anywhere. Trump stooges are everywhere. No matter who wins the country is in for a bad ride. Rational intelligent people are gone. The lunatics will prevail. It will not be a government of building, but one of destruction.