Massacre Ground Hike

The Kadizzles were joined by the Donovans, and Dennys to look for the Massacre Ground. Supposedly the Indians shot some gold miners here. Nice hike. Lauren and Pat had to turn back before the waterfall. The water fall was a nice side trip. Monday or Tuesday we will probably head for new ground.

19 miles in two days, worn out.

Yesterday, Ruth, Roger, The Commander, and Lord Kadizzle did a 9.5 mile forced march. The scenery was wonderful and it was a very nice hike, but today we need a rest. The weather has been excellent, and again today the sky is fair. Ruth and Roger sat in front of this nice little water fall for a picture and a rest. Strange to see so much water flowing in the desert.

The Commander had a strenuous forced march yesterday of ten miles. It was a nice hike with wonderful scenery. Another hike today with Ruth and Rodger. Looks like it will be a nice day. May hike tomorrow with the Donovans.

Chihuly with the Kadizzles

Mike and Cissie go to Chihuly exhibit with Ruth and Roger Denny

Arcosanti with Mike and Cissie

Kadizzles roll into Phoenix

We just finished dinner with our old neighbors Ken and Terry Peterson in Mesa. Yesterday we ate with our sailing friends Ruth and Roger Denny. The camper is up at Usery Park. We will probably meet with the Donovans and Garceau's on Wed for dinner. After Wed we may head out. Will probably leave Usery and go to a campground by lake a littler farther north.

Kadizzles at Acrosanti

At The Commanders orders we landed the Bigfoot at Acrosanti today. The Commander is talking about camping in the parking lot. Later perhaps pictures and an update. If we leave here today we will probably camp north of Mesa, maybe at Usery, or in a camp ground up the road a ways.

Very Strange Find

On Saturday's exploration hike Lord Kadizzle looked across the canyon and saw what appeared to be an Indian ruin in a very precipitous place. Something about the ruin did not look right. The stone work was not quite right. Sunday the group decided to make a difficult hike to the ruin. One at the site their was none of the usual pot shards or any other indication of occupation. Indeed the rock work was wrong. The strangest thing was what appeared to be an antenna in the middle of the rock circle. Why someone put an antenna in the middle of a rock circle in the middle of nowhere is a real mystery. If anyone knows anything about antennas let me know what kind of antenna this is. It appears to have been there for some time. It may have been some sort of remote sensing device, and it is possible someone took the main components.

Moving to the Aqua Fria River

If all goes well the wagon will move about forty miles south into the wilderness of the Aqau Fria River. May be phone service, but I doubt it, will certainly be no wi-fi. From there we may head down toward Phoenix.

Assignment for Sunday

Read the New York Times editorials today, all excellent. Dowd finally has a home run. Another article slams the worlds most sorrowful man, Rush Limbaugh, the mother of all pigs. Read how the Republicans are cow towing to the gas bag.

A differnt planet with music

Last night our little band of old foggies went to The Salt Cellar for dinner. The man said they had the best Pizza around, and he was right. As we ate musicians began to trickle in. Gary set up the equipment and played a couple songs. Then another guy played some nice music, and another, and then a half drunk guy with accompaniment, and on it went. One by one most of the musicians visited with us. It was all free and they were all very good. It was a wide mix of music from Johnny Cash to Jazz.

It would be so nice if Hazen had a place like that, where people came an played for free. The music wasn't so loud it drowned out conversation. Every day of the week they had some entertainment venue. Each entertainer performs for free.

Nothing goes as planned

The Commander made a find yesterday, but the whole search did not follow the original plan. Lord Kadizzle and The Commander hiked to the top of the rim. Almost at the top our band encountered a lost dog which was out on a mountain lion hunt. The dog collar had two phone numbers and we called both. No answer, but we did meet the rest of the mountain lion party latter and returned Babe to the gang.

Bush whacking we came down from the peak onto a plateau. Lord Kadizzle had suspected the last time we were in the area there might be a site on the top of the plateau, but he gave up trying to make it from the bottom of the canyon. This time The Commander came down from the top of the mountain. Lord Kadizzle split off and looked for artifacts above another ruin we had found in the valley.

The Commander found a site that had very little modern contact, and artifacts were scattered everywhere.

Todays expidition

If you click on the picture you can enlarge it. Today if all goes well we will try to get to where the little yellow pin is. A Google Earth fly over seems to show something there. In the Verde Valley there was a very large ancient population. More than likely they did most of their hunting up on the rim of the valley. Most of the access to the rim is not very good. The site we are going to investigate today is in an ideal location to access the rim. Nearby are a lot of very significant sites. Sacred Mountian, and Montazuma's well are not that far away. At the end of the day, it may turn out we just walked a long ways to a pile of natural rocks. Every site around here has an abundance of pottery shards. If this is a site there will surely be pot shards there.

Another expidition into Indian country.

Our little band headed up one of the canyons East of Rim Rock yesterday on another great exploration. One of the great things about these trips is we get to see Indian finds in a fairly raw state untouched by hordes of tourist. The Commander found one of the most amazing arrow heads ever discovered. The arrow head was about the size of a dime and the delicacy of the work will never be surpassed. Up the canyon we found a very strange ruin. Apparently dwellings had been built on a steep island precipice that jutted out into the canyon. The amount of rock on the sides of the embankment indicated that there must have been either a great tower on the precipice, or a large number of terraced rooms that spread out from the base and climbed upward. Lord Kadizzle favors the terraced theory. The expedition found several caves that had been occupied with some nice pictographs, and we also found some nice petroglyphs. Three distinct types of pottery were found, black on white, brown on white, and black on red. One unsolved puzzle was something that appeared to be an old orchard. It may have been an Indian orchard, or could have been more modern.

Great pottery finds today

The Commander, Lord Kadizzle, and Ned did the first exploration of the season. Was a terrific day for finding black on white potter. Found at least four good pieces today. This was the best. Noticed The Commander walked right by and did not see it.

Rain in the Desert

The Kadizzles have a magic ability to bring rain to the desert. Once in Baja we caused rain. It was the biggest rain in one hundred years. We could hardly drive down the road in Joshua Tree. It has been raining on and off for three days here. If we could just be somewhere that all this caused the flowers to bloom. Perhaps the moisture will stay in the ground long enough for it to happen. If you have never been in the desert when it is hit by water it is a must see.

Life in Rim Rock

Made a trip to Cottonwood to get the oil changed. Had a long discussion with the guy who changed the oil about his hydrogen injection system for his truck. The manager and about three employees all stood around for science class at the gas station. Lord Kadizzle is skeptical about the whole process, but it did make for some interesting conversation. According to the user, he gets thirty percent better millage.

The weather is a little wet so we cannot do any exploring. Ned found a new Indian site we are anxious to see, but it may be a few days.

History, the real thing.

Lord Kadizzle never thought he would find himself somewhat of a history buff, but little by little he has become fascinated with what really happened. So much of American history has been fabricated for general consumption, that reality got pushed aside. Columbus was really a savage jerk and not above some whopping lies he used to further his own greed. The gilded version of how this country came into existence is not very interesting. What actually took place is interesting. It is very sad that young children are given in school a painted over placid view of what took place. It is no wonder they are bored and loose interest. If schools had children delve into real history and talk about how things came about, education would take place. The current system is more indoctrination than education. The motives of early Americans were not nearly as noble as one would believe from reading the typical American history book provided to most schools today. A dose of reality would serve our students so much better. The amazing thing about a lot of the early American heroes is that their real life was actually far more interesting than the fictionalized version presented for mass consumption. A classic case is Kit Carson. The book BLOOD AND THUNDER is an eye opener about how the southwest was actually settled. The portrayal of our country as a classes land of equality, is such a falsehood when one actually looks into it. The notion that people could come here for a better life needs to be examined. Most of the early settles had a very hared time of it, and often wrote back to the mother land to tell people not to come. Harmony was not a theme. Everyone was pitted against everyone. The rich whites deliberately pitted the poor whites against the blacks and the Indians. Sound familiar?

The early rich played the same game the Republicans of today use, divide and conquer. One major fear the haves always had was the "have nots" would ban together and throw them out. The early plantation owners wanted to make sure the Indians disliked the blacks, so their plan was to arm some blacks and have them fight the Indians. Poor whites were siding with black slaves, so the landowners did everything they could to stir racial hate. If today's students could see the origins of today's problems as portrayed in real history perhaps we would not have to repeat history so often. Most of the dirty tricks Karl Rove used were used in colonial times.

The Winds of Change are blowing

Yesterday was a day of hope, and we need a lot. As the Kadizzles travel the tales of economic woe are everywhere. In Evergreen we heard of the well to do losing their fancy mountain homes. On the road you don't see many people traveling. In Cottowood the stores up and down the street are shuttered and for lease. Homes are for sale everywhere with no buyers. Obama has been left a mess that Heracles could not clean up. The next year will be interesting. The economy is so fragile if it does not break it will be amazing. People have to cut back, and that is the worst scenario to get things going. It is a no win situation. However, the country is going to have a reality check like never before, and that may be a blessing in disguise. So perhaps we can thank Bush for knocking us senseless, we now have awoken to a new world where the old Republican lies don't work anymore. If that sorrowful man did one thing, he thoroughly broke the illusion. Bush has put us on the road to realization that we cannot have a functioning country where a very small percentage prosper at the cost of so many. If his legacy is that he shook us out of a stupor of ignorance and delusion, then let that be over the door of his presidential library, which I suggest should be a two holer with no other book than a Sears catalog.

Kadizzle Conquers the West

The Kadizzles stopped at Villanuava State Park in the usual spot and then headed on down to Cottonwood. It was a beautiful sunny day as we passed through Albuquerque, Flagstaff and on to Rimrock.

Bust Out of Evergreen Today?

I all goes well the Kadizzle wagon train will bust out of Evergreen and head to Villanuava Park in New Mexico. Tonight we will be camped beside the Pecos River in the very spot the Spanish went through in the 1500's.

Best outcome is duel turns out to be a tie

Cheney asked Bush to hunt with him, but Bush thought a duel would be more fair.

Look closely,

Fran gave me this weeks addition, but it did not register for awhile. I just thought it was a picture of Moe, but it is the other Moe. The one we don't have to deal with no Moe.

How Can I Keep from Singing

Lord Kadizzle woke up to a glorious day. The Snoocher Bear is feeling great. Snoocher and Lord Kadizzle belted out some John Prine songs and fired out a few Bruce Springsteens too. Springsteen has some songs that rip Bush and the Republicans to shreds, "How can I keep from singing". Seeing that worthless rat scurry out of the White House to Texas will be one of the best days in my life. "How can I keep from singing?".

We are banning books in Beulah

Beulah is the little town west of Kadizzleville. Over there they are doing their best to keep the future from falling all over them. Today the Bismarck Tribune has an article about the school banning books. Sometimes it is hopeless to go forward in North Dakota after all the state voted for McCain.

Fox Number Three

A quick glimpse of something running through the woods at the Bear Den made me run to the back window. Looking out the back window I saw a red fox running towards the national forest to the East. Erin has pictures of the black fox, and the little fox that sits on her deck, but this appears to be another guy. Lord Kadizzle has not been able to see the elk close up. It would be great if they would come through the yard.

Today at the Bear Den

Cissie on the deck

Up on the mountain Erin feels pretty good, The Commander is reading in the warm sun, and Lord Kadizzle is up to no good. Drove up to the top of the mountain today. Amazing number of houses hidden in the pines. People have scratched out homes everywhere. How they get up there in heavy snow is a mystery. Drove by the Sanford and Son hideout. There actually are two guys that pick up trash around here. They call themselves Sanford and Son. We once hired them to haul junk. What it cost to get trash removed here is beyond reason. A pickup load is sixty dollars if you haul it yourself. Sanford and Son are rumored to just take the junk up to their hideout and dump it, which would be very lucrative since they would not have to pay the steep dump fees. Up near their compound signs are everywhere warning people to stay away. A lot of the junk they have lined the road with and are calling it folk art. Most of the people around here fear them, so they get away with the scam. (Please note pictures of Lord Kadizzle's belly have been digitally enhanced to make it appear larger)

Birthday Girl

Birthday Girl

The Comander's Birthday adventure. Click on the picture, then click on slide show

Tropical Denver

Commander gets wonderful Birthday present

If you are a regular reader of this blog you know in the morning Lord Kadizzle becomes Hoppy. Hoppy gets coffee for The Commander while she sits in bed reading. For The Commanders birthday Lord Kadizzle hired a full time servant for The Commander. Jeeves is the new household help.

Erin Opens Office in Hospital

The old Snoocher Bear is in the Hospital so much lately she has just moved her office there. Currently she is in phase two of testing the digestive system. Liquids seem to be making it through the maze. Right now we just fired some solid food down the tubes and will have to wait several hours to see if this experiment is a success. Fran as usual is traveling the country. The Commander turned 59 today, so any suggestions for a perfect gift for the commander will be welcome. The Commander insist on staying with Erin 24 hours a day when Erin is in the repair shop, so she is on call to fill in for the CEO at Presbyterian St. Lukes Hospital.

Health Care? We need big Change.

This month Lord Kadizzle has been in the hospital three times. Not for himself, but for his poor daughter. Since the original day Erin lost a kidney in a basketball accident until today, her total medical cost for the accident are approaching two hundred thousand dollars. Thank god for medical insurance. What would this have done to a family with no insurance. A good friend of our daughter Megan from Hazen had no insurance. She is now bankrupt, and in desperate need of surgery. She has a colostomy that should be removed, however she cannot have it removed because she has no insurance. Don't get me wrong, we have excellent doctors in this country. Erin would be up the creek without the fine doctors who are treating her. What about the person who has no medical insurance? In the United States you are virtually assured of being broke the rest of your life if you have a major medical problem and no insurance. This country desperately needs national health care. Study the issue for yourself, and you will see why virtually every advanced country in the world provides health care for its citizens. As more people become unemployed more families will become destitute because of medical problems. One reason the auto industry in this country is broke is because of the high cost of insurance. Ignore what I say, but if you or your child gets in a medical fix, you will remember what I am writing here. It pains me to think of Megan's young friend whose life has been ruined by the American Medical system. She is a bright young girl with an economic burden and a condition that will plague her for her whole life because Americans have bought into the great lie.

Bush wanted Obama to win

No matter how cold hearted Lord Kadizzle is to old Dubbya, he did have a pang of sympathy for the man today. Watching George at his last news conference one could almost think he finnally got it. Bush was touched by the black people with tears in their eyes election night. Secretly I think Bush was glad Obama got elected. It is hard for me to say, but I think he does have a heart, a mind is all he lacks.

It was the best of times, It was the worst of times

The prospect of being grandparents certianly is the best of times, but poor old Erin has been going through hell with this pregnancy. Last night we came to the hospital for the third time this month. After her emergency surgery early in the month we have made two more trips back to what has become our home away from home. At this point they cannot determine if she has a gall bladder problem, or some kind of bowel obstruction. Adhesions may be the culprit in the background. When she eats it makes her very sick and puts her in great pain. Hopefully we will get through this one more time. Our annual trip south has been put on hold until we get this resolved.

Lord Kadizzle Pees Pants Laughing

One luxury at the mountain retreat is a good supply of reading material. Rolling Stone Magazine is a favorite. If anyone has more disdain for the Decider than Lord Kadizzle it would be Matt Tiabbi. In the new issue he writes a fictional account of an interview with The Decider titled "Bush Apologizes". You can read the first couple of pages online, but it you can get your hands on the whole article it is a good laugh. One favorite scene is Bush, Cheney, and Rummy trying to decide if water boarding is really torture. They ask the houseboy at the White House to let them try it on him. Rummy gets carried away and holds a cigarette lighter to the guys ear while Cheney is drowning him with ice water. They have to explain to Rummy that is not part of it.

Baby Gilbert

Out of the clear blue sky Megan named Erin's pumpkin Baby Gilbert. Becoming a Granpa has been like climbing a mountain. Baby Gilbert is in his part of the house, while the rest of the house is in turmoil. We are about six months into the pregnancy and just completed the second emergency run to the hospital. When Baby Gilbert comes of age I am sure he or she ( Fran is insisting on surprise, Snoocher desperately wants to know) will be told of the travails of their incubation.

Now we are up in the mountains waiting to blast off for AZ. Presumably the Snoocher Bear is at least temporarily cured. The Commander will insist on being on hot standby in case Erin burps, so we will always have to camp with a phone signal. Hazen just got hit by another winter blast. The prospect of springs floods increases every day. In North Dakota the worst scenario is melting snow on top of frozen ground. Add some rain and you have a disaster. Our house may sit about two feet above the flood plain, so being away is a bit dicy.

The Bar and The Church

Good funny article in NYT about the similarities between churches and bars

Snoocher Bear back home

No definitive diagnosis, but it looks like the bear had a gal bladder attack. She seems to be doing fine, and just needs to watch what she eats. The doctor said sometimes this happens during pregnancy.

Seems Impossible

Last night we rolled into Erin's driveway. This morning Lord Kadizzle and The Commander are back at the hospital with Erin. For the last three days Erin has been in pain, and last night it got worse. So at about six in the morning we headed down to the hospital with Erin. At this point it looks like a gal bladder problem, which is basically good news. The doctor just visited Erin and his suspicion is galbladder. Erin may have provoked it by eating the wrong foods. They may be doing an ultrasound right now. Hopefully she can just watch her diet and it will subside. The doctor indicated pregnancy sometimes brings on these problems. At this point hopes are high she can return home today. With some good fortune the Kadizzlator can be hooked to the back of the truck and we can head south in a couple of days.

Lord Kadizzle needs medication

Unfortunately his lordship is obsessed with the delusional that defend Bush at any price. The latest issue of Vanity Fair was laying by the bed so his lordship picked it up for a perusal. An article that was a series of quotes from people connected with the Bush administration caught his eye. The bungling incompetency was unbelievable, no matter how much you already knew. Steam escaped from the Kadizzle's ears when he read that Rumsfield said on the night of 9/11 "We need to attack Iraq, there are not enough targets in Afghanistan". He went on to say we needed to show the world "we are strong". Richard Clarke was in the room when he said it, and it was Clarke who quoted him. Colin Powell also was in the room. Powell told Rumsfield, "Iraq had noting to do with it".

The Glass Castle

Lord Kadizzle is usually overtaken by attention deficit disorder, so it takes a pretty good writer to get him through a complete book. However, when the book is good, it goes quickly. THE GLASS CASTLE is centered around Welch, West Virginia. At one time Lord Kadizzle worked in that coal mining area teaching miners the basics of coal mine safety. The story is about a dysfunctional family that lived a very hard scrabble life in a hopeless shack. Food for the kids often came from garbage cans. The story is true, and the author went on to be a very successful writer. Her brother slept under an inflatable raft because the rain came right through the roof where he slept. In West Virgina Lord Kadizzle saw first hand a lot of people who grew up the hard scrabble way. This morning when his lordship got out of bed he thought back to the family of the Robinsons. They could have been the people in this book. Twila, Henry, and Author, were three kids I went to school with. They were busted flat, and poor old Twila had some mental problems. Beside the poor kids I went to school with we had the home dingers from the children's orphanage. In my own life we had some taste of the hard scrabble life, but only for seasoning. Most amazing are the kids who fight their way out of the mess and flourish. In our current little town of Hazen there was a family of twelve kids. Their father was a nut case Baptist preacher, who occasionally beat them. Lord Kadizzle felt sorry for the bunch an tried to do what he could to help. The kids were home schooled which was a curse. Home schooling enabled the parents to just inflict more suffering on the kids. Home schooling is a sign of mental illness in most circumstances. The local bunch of kids fended for themselves and gradually most of them became successful adults. It was a lot like the story in THE GLASS CASTLE the first kid escaped and pulled the rest out. Lord Kadizzle grew up in a disfunctional family, and it had its pros and cons. It was a sink or swim life. You either went nuts, or got smarter. Many would say I chose the nuts route.

NYT Bombs the Decider again

Read "A President gone, but not forgotten". For some reason the NYT is paying tribute to the loser by having an editorial almost every day about this dud " Bush is like a salesman whose company has forgotten to tell him the product he sells has been discontinued". It is a good read with some good laughs.

Cold, blustery Dakota Day

Winky, A.K.A. The Comander is sitting in bed reading. Part of her story evolves around Welch W.Va., a place were Lord Kadizzle was involved in the underground coal industry many moons ago. Southern West Virginia is a completely different planet.

The big mission today may be a trip to Bismarck to listen to some live jazz and pee money away. Just helping the economy.

Both The Commander and Lord Kadizzle are getting the itch to get out of here. May bust out Monday or Tuesday if the Lord is willing and the roads are clear. Will go to the Snoocher Bear den, pick up the camper and head for Rimrock AZ.

Today's homework assignment (easy)

If you don't want to be a dinger, you must read Paul Krugman in the New York Times today. Lord Kadizzle being the flaming liberal he is loves Tom Friedman, but Paul Krugman is probably the favorite. They did not give him the Nobel Prize because they had noting better to do. His article today succinctly hits the nail on the head about how the Republican party is the racist party. Even the hard cores will have a difficult time refuting what he says. If anyone can get a hard core to read it, let me know what it is like when the steam comes out their ears.

"He’s got his Top Gallant Sails out”

The NYT has an article about different terms for being drunk. As a sailor, I really like this one.

Throw out the soiled underwear

Someone used that phrase in Bismarck Tribune today about getting rid of the Bush administration. Lord Kadizzle thinks there should be some sort of national holiday for getting rid of his bunch. When Obama is sworn in everyone should symbolically throw old underwear away in some kind of ceremony, or throw some shoes and yell "You Dog". Ridding ourselves of the president voted in a poll by 98% of historians as the worst in history is something we need to celebrate.

Republican Implosion

Yesterday on CNN they asked Pat Buchanan who he thought would be the ideal Republican candidate next time around. Pat was sure Sarah Palin would be the ideal choice. God bless I hope they choose that air head. If a skunk with lipstick ran it could beat the moose hunter. The mother of her daughter's sperm donor, just got busted for selling oxy-contin. The donor plans to eventually finish high school. The daughter also has dropped out. Sarah is doing a great job raising a family, she will make a good president.

Snow, leave it to Lord Kadizzle to be Wrong

Click on the picture and then click on slide show

Untitled Album

As fall approached at the cement project Lord Kadizzle continually assured the head safety man "Doc", that winters in North Dakota were not that bad, and he should not be worried. Good thing Doc went south. December appears to have set a record for snow.

"You worse than sensless dog meat scum" Rush Limbaugh

With so much hope in the country as we finally get rid of George Bush, leave it to Rush Limbaugh to stir up racial hate by promoting the song "Puff the magic Negro". If anyone one reading this has an once of respect for Rush Limbaugh, I will gladly today tell you to your face I do not have an ounce of respect for you. Rush is the epitomay of what is wrong with out country. A big fat pig that is obsessed with his sense of entitlement. The Republicans are in a terrible hole, and the guy with the shovel is Rush.

Bush Library Almost Ready

The George W. Bush Presidential Library is now in the planning stages
and accepting donations.
The Library will include:


1. The Hurricane Katrina Room, which is still under construction.


2. The Alberto Gonzales Room, where you won't be able to remember
anything.


3. The Texas Air National Guard Room, where you don't even have to
show up.


4. The Walter Reed Hospital Room, where they don't let you in.


5. The Guantanamo Bay Room, where they don't let you out.


6. The Weapons of Mass Destruction Room, which no one has been able to
find.


7. The National Debt Room, which is huge and has no ceiling.


8. The Tax Cut Room, with entry only to the wealthy.


9. The Economy Room, which is in the toilet.


10. The Iraq War Room. (After you complete your first visit, they make
you go back for a second, third, fourth, and sometimes fifth visit.)


11. The Dick Cheney Room, in the famous undisclosed location, complete
with shooting gallery.


12. The Environmental Conservation Room, still empty.


13. The Supreme Gift Shop, where you can buy an election.


14. The Airport Men's Room, where you can meet some of your favorite
Republican Senators.


15. The Decider Room, complete with dart board, magic 8-ball, Ouija
board, dice, coins, and straws.


Note: The library will feature an electron microscope to help you
locate and view the President's accomplishments.


The library will also include many famous Quotes by George W.Bush:


1. 'The vast majority of our imports come from outside the country.'


2. 'If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.'


3. 'Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother
and child.'


4. 'No senior citizen should ever have to choose between prescription
drugs and medicine.'


5. 'I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and
democracy - but that could change.'


6. 'One word sums up probably the responsibility of any Governor, and
that one word is 'to be prepared'.'


7. 'Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.'


8. 'I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments
in the future.'


9. 'The future will be better tomorrow.'


10. 'We're going to have the best educated American people in the
world..'


11. 'One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some
fantastic pictures.' (during an education photo-op)


12. 'Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not
having it.'


13. 'We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.'


14. 'It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the
impurities in our air and water that are doing it.'


15.. 'I stand by all the misstatements that I've
made.'...George W.Bush to Sam Donaldson



PLEASE GIVE GENEROUSLY!


Sincerely,


Jack Abramoff, Co-Chair


G.W. Bush Library Board of Directors

"It was the best of times, It was the worst of times"

The old bitch of an Englich teacher made me memorize that line, but now I am grateful. A lot of stuff some old woman pounded into my head turned out to be a good thing, it only took me hundreds of years to realize it. So god bless a lot of those old goats who did the right thing for a bunch of teenagers that would take thirty years to be greatful. Now, to the subject. Sitting here at Erin's computer Lord Kadizzle is thinking about Erin having the best of times, and the worst of times. Erin has one of the best offices in the world. At her own house she gets to sit right where I am sitting and work. Anytime she wants she can raise her head and look out the window into the forest of the Rocky Mountians. A lot of people would kill for this view. Once in a while a fox, some elk, deer, or maybe even a bear go by. Hard to beat.

The worst of times. Erin is in the final stages of her fourth major hospital stay in her life. Thank god she is doing fine. For the third time she was split open from her strenum to below her belly button. The classic emergency incision when they are not sure what they are looking for. Each of her mishaps involved exteme pain for hours.

Now we head through four months of tension, waiting for a baby. May the best of times prevail. On a sunny morning at 8,500 ft above sea level there is a lot of hope.

Greenwood Cemetery

Some where in this cemetery most of my relatives on my mothers side are buried. The picture is just one of the many outrageous grave markers in the cemetery. The Greenwood cemetery is full of hundreds of grave markers that would today cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to duplicate. Many are small stone buildings with stained glass windows. The high school Lord Kadizzle attended was right beside this cemetery. If you ever needed flowers for a special occasion this came in handy.

Winter Castle

Click on the picture to see the whole album. New feature on Kadizzle. This is Erin's today. When it comes up click on the slide show feature.

Erin's Winter Castle

The Sun Also Rises

After spending a week watching my daughter recover from an extreme medical crises, which is the fourth in her life, I got up to a wonderful day in the mountains above Denver. The sky could not be bluer, The sun brighter, or the air better. Erin back to her vibrant self only added to the good in life. There is always a good day out there, and you have to wait for it to come. Sitting in the hot tub on the deck watching one more day start is hard to beat.

Stop Being Stupid

Be sure to read Bob Herberts editorial today in the New York Times. Excellent. While you are at the NYT site you may as well read the Godless go to heaven article also very, very good.

Race to the Bottom

Stolen from letter to NYT: Bob Herbert’s reminder of the importance of teachers and the average worker hits at a fundamental problem with our society — when given the choice to value people who are providing worthwhile services or people who exist purely to satiate their own wealth and fame, we choose the latter.

How else to describe a society that believes that the average teacher or autoworker should take a pay cut while the average millionaire shouldn’t be overly taxed?

We can point fingers at Bernard L. Madoff as a bad apple in a basically well-intentioned system, but really he is a reflection of the economy we have chosen for ourselves.

Until we face this fact, no amount of bailout money will save us from a profoundly dysfunctional society in which actors, pop stars and hedge fund managers impress us more than the people teaching our children how to read.

It is not exactly a sun rise

Everyone is asleep but Lord Kadizzle. The whole East side of Erin and Fran's house is one giant window facing the mountains and forest. Snow is coming down off and on, sometimes at a good pace. There is no sky, just a gray background. The whole scene has that Christmas card look with the snow on the trees. Last night Fran fired out an excellent prime rib cooked on the grill. The homemade horse radish sauce really drew it out. There were no fires or explosions, but just some serious good eating. After dinner the whole gang sat down to watch Dexter the serial killer. We got through two episodes, and will plow away again tonight. Erin continues to get better. We call the giant scar from top to bottom on her front side the zipper. She has been opened up a total of three times. Erin likes to say she might as well have a zipper. Right now she has twenty two stainless steel staples holding her together. Hopefully they will be out on Monday. Yesterday Erin was quite concerned part of the zipper was failing. The scar tissue made it appear that way, and we reassured her she was fine.

Explosive Prime Rib

One of Lord Kadizzles blessings in life is that he is friendly with the best cooks in the county. JoAnne Kerns is certainly one of them. Over the holidays she claims she made the best prime rib ever. Lord Kadizzle is a prime rib fan and today that is what Fran will make. Will Fran have the guts to try JoAnne's new recipe? The Kerns recipe was an accidental discovery. JoAnne used vodka to rub the roast. Her theory was that it would make the seasoning stick. Sometime after the roast was in the oven an explosion occurred followed by a fire. The recipe requires you to open the oven door and patiently wait until the fire goes out. This must be the secret, the crisping. Now I am sure she claims her prime rib explodes with flavor, which I am sure it does. Kids would surely love this recipe. Imagine sitting around at Christmas waiting for dinner to explode with an ensuing fire. Nuclear Rib Flambau will surely be the hit of the season. I can't wait until Thanksgiving to see her turkey cannon that explodes and shoots delicious stuffing right into the bowl.

Bernie Madoff = George Bush

Unless you have been living in a cave by now you have read about Bernie Madoff. Bernie engineered the biggest Ponzi Scheme ever. Reports are he bilked people out of fifty billion dollars. Everyone loved Bernie and no one could say anything bad about him. The facts spoke for themselves. Detractors were just jealous. Unfortunately the whole thing blew up when reality struck. Now our good buddy George Bush. Unfortunately reality hit before he left office. Unfortunately many of Bush's followers still have not come to grips with his fraud. Every Madoff follower can go to their statement and find out the simple truth, it is a lie the money is not there. Bush pulled the same scheme with the tax breaks for the rich lie. The strange thing is the denial. How many Americans still think and believe the Bush Ponzi scheme is a lie. Bernie at least finally admitted it was all a lie. Bush does not have the guts to come clean. That means Bernie is more of a man than George. George cannot give up the lie.

The Black Fox

The Black fox just went through the yard. Erin and Fran have seen it in the past. Erin first saw it months ago, however Fran and others were doubtful there was such a thing. Now Lord Kadizzle can say for sure there is. For a fox it is pretty good sized, but for sure that is what it is.

Today's Assignment

Be sure to read Tom Friedman's article in the NYT today. There will be a test.

At last the snoocher bear will be home today

Yesterday was supposed to be the great return of Erin to her den, but some minor complications put it off until today. Fran will run down the mountain and pick up The Commander and Erin. Lord Kadizzle will assist in grocery shopping. A slight skiff of snow fell so there may be some driveway work. Now, the march continues toward the birth of Baby Gilber, or as Megan has now named the child Oliver Twist in honor of the twisted intestine that just about did us in. If the child is a girl presumably it will be Olivia Twist.

At last the snoocher bear will be home today

Yesterday was supposed to be the great return of Erin to her den, but some minor complications put it off until today. Fran will run down the mountain and pick up The Commander and Erin. Lord Kadizzle will assist in grocery shopping. A slight skiff of snow fell so there may be some driveway work. Now, the march continues toward the birth of Baby Gilber, or as Megan has now named the child Oliver Twist in honor of the twisted intestine that just about did us in. If the child is a girl presumably it will be Olivia Twist.

Sock and Awe

A loyal follower sent in the following game called Sock and Awe. You score points by throwing shoes at Bush as he ducks behind the podium. Click to play

Shoe Sales Soaring, Kadizzle would like to have a pair.

The company that makes the shoes thrown at George Bush is having a land office business. They have hired and additional one hundred staff to meet demand. The shoe is popular in the middle east, but is sure to be a hit here. Lord Kadizzle wants the extra heavy model with the steel toe. Kadizzle can then use it for work and politics.

Snoocher Bear will return to Den to work on cub project

If God is willing, and the creeks don't rise Erin will come home today. Fran and Lord Kadizzle have spiffied up the place. Somewhat cold here in the mountains, but not nearly as bad as the Dakota's. Erin's digestive system kicked into gear with the help of an IED (improvised explosive device i.e. a suppository). Erin is really doing well and looking good. Erin is good at recovering. When Erin had her original accident in High School, she went on to win the state class B hurdles the next spring. An amazing feat by any standard. We were hoping to fly Megan out to join us for Christmas, but does not look promising. Alls well that ends well.

Oh, by the way

After being in the hospital for three days Erin was reciting the endectomies she has had. An endectomy must be something they took out our you. The nurse was listening to Erin's recital and said "Oh by the way they took your appendix out". No one bothered to mention it earlier. So Erin got to add that to her list. If she were a turkey, she would be labeled parts missing. The recovery is going great. Erin has eaten toast and eggs so it they make it through, it will be praise the lord and pass the ammunition, or perhaps it should be praise the lord and pass the gas.

Erin doing great.

The doctor just stopped in and said Erin could try some jello etc. It cheered her up a lot. So things are looking good, and perhaps she will be out by Monday.

The ultimate scum

In our current crises Lord Kadizzle has little to do, but peruse magazines. Rolling Stone had and article titled "Bush's final F..... You". The article went through the steps he is taking in his last days to mess up everything he can for the environment, Obama, and feather the nest of his friends. I didn't even bother to read the article, I have heard the same on the news shows. Of course all news programs are left wing. It is amazing that the man who has done more to ruin the future, the present, and anything else he can, just doesn't get it. He has no sense of shame whatsoever. Bush is incapable of realizing what a hopeless case he is. A classic indication of his mentality was the denial he gave the Obama family when they asked to use Blair house so his kids could start school on time. Bush said it was unavailable. It was reserved for parties he was having at the end of his disastrous reign. What person in their right mind would celebrate the end of the worst presidency in history. When Bush is gone it will be the like the end of an eclipse, the sun will shine again.

The Fart Heard around the World

This is the third day in the hospital with Erin. When her intestinal tract starts to work she can eat. The poor girl has not had any food for four days. Doctors say they need to hear noise from her intestines to indicate they are working. A good signal would be a fart. Normally these fellows are not welcome, but this one will be the best Christmas present the Kadizzles could have. So patiently we wait for the event that will change the world for the better. So if you feel you home shake and a mild breeze you know it will be a victory for modern medicine. Weather in Denver is a little chilly, but it is a sunny day.

Please Read Paul Krugman Today

Angering the right wing seems to be one of Lord Kadizzles favorite hobbies. The intent isn't really to anger, it is to educate. How arrogant. Who cares? If anyone was the economic hero of Lord Kadizzle, it would be Paul Krugman the nobel prize winner. Read his article in NYT Today.. Krugman has put into words concisely what needs to be said about the culture of greed the right wing has created in this country and how it has devastated us.

Snoocher Bear has surgery

For the third time they opened up poor old Erin. It looks like everything is going to be OK. Somehow her intesting got wrapped around itself. She was rushed to the hospital yesterday. Her mom and dad flew to Denver this morning. Fran has had a hard time getting back for the crises. Fran was stuck in a storm in Chicago. He should be in by five today. Eveything went well with the surgery. The doctors had to remove one foot of her colon. Of course being pregnant did not help matters. This is the third time she has been cut open along the same scar. If Megan can get to Denver the Kadizzles may all be together for Christmas in Evergreen. Not a good time of year for a disaster, but all has turned out well, and we could not ask for a better Christmas present. Erin is in room 312 at Presbyterian / St. Lukes hospital. Both her baby doctor and the surgeon stopped by and said she was fine.

Rerun about the Gila River

This morning while purusing the NYT Lord Kadizzle came across a travel article that mentioned the Gila Hot Spring. It was fun reading the article to read someone else's impression. You always meet friendly interesting people there. When the commander and Lord Kadizzle went there to soak a couple years ago a young boy was wandering around while his mom soaked. Lord Kadizzle engaged him in a conversation, and he proceeded to tell his Lordship that he created most of the art work that was every where. The Commander absolutely loves the natural art work by the spring. It is all made from tree branches, and what ever else occurs naturally in the area. You look at a tree and suddenly realize the branches form a fish, or something else.

After talking to the young guy who appeared to be about six or seven, and more full of BS than even Lord Kadizzle it occurred to his lordship that it was a school day. "Why aren't you in school' I asked the young guy. He quickly told me that he got thrown out. Of course I had to know why. He explained that his mother was called to a meeting with the teacher and his mother swore at the teacher. "So they threw you out to?" I asked. He explained what happened. His mother said to the teacher "F,,,k you, and he chimened in "F,,,k you too teacher". The net result was he and his mother were now enjoying a nice soak at the hot spring. The young boy seemed like an intelligent and nice kid, and I can see coming to the defense of mom, but I hope they got things patched up and he did not learn a bad lesson from the encounter with the teacher. In a short time we will head south. If we get to the Gila Hot springs, it would be fun to see how he is doing. The whole thing makes me think of another encounter we had with Justin Time. We named him that because his first name was Justin, and we did not know his last name. The commander and Lord Kadizzle had a wonderful time taking Justin Time for a hike. For some strange reason my mind keeps wondering how Justin Time is doing. He was such a nice kid in a bad situation, and he had such a good attitude. Hope things are going well for Justin Time.

Adult Supervision WOW

Lord Kadizzle has enjoyed three consecutive days off. However, The Commander is totally out of control. Since His Lordship took a job the commander has been home alone with no one to boss since May. Now, the terrier is following me around bossing me like there is no tomorrow. I am hopeless without adult supervision, and it is so nice to have that teenage feeling you get when mom yells "Make you bed'. Lord Kadizzle has been trying to dust, but God himself could not dust to the satisfaction of The Commander. No, that's wrong, first you have to do this, Oh, you don't know how to dust, your using the wrong stuff, you dust just like you cut the grass. Working is so much easier than being in The Commanders army.

Bush should commit Hari Kari

First lets examine what Hari Kari is: Hari kari, also known as sepuku, is an ancient form of ritual suicide that defeated samurai, or those whose shame was 'too unbearable' would use to restore their honor in death. In sepuku, one would take a wakizashi (short sword) and dissembowel oneself. The less noise you made while doing this, the braver you were and therefore the more honorable, however this did not last long as not long after you had begun, a close friend, comrade, or enemy would put you out of your misery (Dick Cheney would be the perfect choice) by cleaving your head from your shoulders in one swift blow of the katana (another japanese sword). Even though in modern times the prospect of decapitating one of your friends or relatives sounds completely against normal 'friendly' behavior,(Cheney might simply ask Bush to hunt with him) being asked to asist your friend or enemies' escape from shame was considered a great honor, as was using this as a tool to escape. This is why the in the imperialistic wars that followed japan's modernisation post Admiral Perry's opening of it in 1853 to the west, the Japanese had no concept of the POW, as they believed that a combatant should either fight to the last breath, or if captured, die 'honorably' in ritual suicide, known as hari kari or sepuku. A good example of this ritual can be found in Tom Cruise's movie "the last samurai" Perhaps being shoed to death would be a more appropriate death.

Please Help the Shoe Foundation

If you would like to help buy more shoes for the guy in Iraq that threw his at Bush please send your contribution to the Kadizzle shoe foundation.

Flying Shoes Bulletin BREAKING NEWS

CNN just broke the story. In Iraq they threw shoes at Bush. As the shoes flew at Bush the reporter yelled "This is the end you dog". Oh, it is so sad to see such a wonderful man humiliated like this. Here is the video

The Year in Ideas Fun Reading

One article Lord Kadizzle enjoys every year is THE YEAR IN IDEAS. There are a lot of fun concepts to read. One favorite was a man who trained crows to go around and pick up coins which they brought back to him for a peanut reward.

The Real Picture

Below is a picture of the Minnkota Power Plant. Unfortunately as this is written the weather is going nuts. It is blowing like crazy as a blizzard moves into the plains. His lordship is sitting in an office trailer while the employees are out trying to survive. It must be a wind chill at least twenty below. Making the country safe for democracy involves a lot of suffering. The rebar crew is putting up the top matt and the carpenters are putting in the forms for the trench drains. For lunch I told the crew I would have Indian Fry bread delivered. It better show up or Lord Kadizzle will be toast. We may have to call off work this afternoon because of the cold.

Lord Kadizzle joins Face Book

At the urging of the children his lordship just signed up for Face Book. I think it is a site for young people, but it now has one old fart for sure

Total Insanity cleaning the air.

Here Lord Kadizzle sits on Monday morning helping to spend another three hundred million fixing up an old power plant. Its cold and tomorrow we will pour three hundred yards of cement. Instead of facing reality and just building a nuclear plant in North Dakota, all the old plants are installing new exhaust pipes, as if that is the solution. The new exhaust pipes will take out some more of the pollutants, but leave the major problem pretty much intact. The CO2 will still pour out the chimney. The real irony in this mess is that the new scrubbers we are installing take up quite a bit of energy themselves. What you end up with when the project is complete is a marginally cleaner power plant that puts out less electricity. If one nuclear plant was built and a couple conventional coal fired plants were shut down the environmental gain would be fantastic. Not only would you eliminate the CO2,but you would also eliminate the sulfur, mercury, nitrogen dioxide, particulate matter, and most amazing of all reduce the amount of radiation. Believe it or not a nuclear plant emits less radiation than a coal fired plant. The worthless dunderhead we have in the White House just sat there for eight years and did nothing, now we are paying the price.

The Terrorist Speaks

In today's New York Times you can read an article written by Bill Ayers (Remember him, he was the terrorist Obama was pallin around with). Bill Ayers article blows the snot out of the Republican nonsense about Obama pallin around with terrorist. Perhaps the simple minded Sara Palin could read the truth, and perhaps make a public appology to Obama. Ayers puts it all in the right perspective. The Republicans lost and if you read this article you can be very proud that their Karl Rove type tactics don't even fool the fundies anymore.

Report from the Dakotas

No Sex in the Bar

On the way to work this morning NPR had a story about a bar in North Dakota that had it's license suspended for a week. It seems a couple of drunks had sex in the bar last week, and the other customers took pictures with their cell phones. In addition to being shut down for a week, the bar will be on probation for a year. That means the bar has to go a whole year without any customers having sex in the bar. The mayor of the town said this did not pain a good picture of the town. When the waitress walks over to table where the customer is have sex, what does she say? "Do you want fries with that?".

Back in the land of Concrete

After a long drive yesterday Lord Kadizzle is back at Center, ND making the world safe for democracy (Making sure no one gets hurt pouring concrete). It was so windy yesterday they shut down the interstate near Cheyenne, WY.

Life at the Bear Den

Pretty tame day in the mountains while The Snoocher Bear works on hatching Baby Gilbert. Since Lord Kadizzle has been involved int the largest cement pour in the United States in the last fifteen years, he thought it only appropriate to help Fran pour a footing for their deck. The big pour involved one bag of sackcrete and five shovels of concrete. After spending hundreds of hours watching carpenters build cement forms Lord Kadizzle got to build one, one foot, by one foot. After making sure no one got hurt placing six hundred tons of rebar, Fran and Lord Kadizzle put six onces in our form with no problems.

Fran just brought the raw Christmas tree in the house and tonight we will have Fran's turkey soup. The soup has been a three hour project. One big highlight of the day was an amazing buck that sauntered by as we worked on the concrete project. Your typical North Dakota deer hunter would have peed his pants watching this large trophy walk by twenty feet away with no heed for the four of use watching.

World Champion Pumpkin Pie

The Snoocher Bear and her mom teamed up and made the BEST pumpkin pie ever. The recipe was on the NPR site. Warning, before eating this pie it is best to put rubber bands around the top of your socks. Lord Kadizzle failed to follow this precaution and the pie knocked his socks off.

Relaxing in the Mountians

The Commander and Lord Kadizzle have had a very relaxing week in the mountains above Denver with Erin and Fran. Erin is excited about the little bundle gestating in the oven. Already we are making plans to raise a genius. The food has been superb. The setting is hard to beat. Easy days catching up on all the magazines on the coffee table, an occasional stroll. If any tension builds up a simple dip in the hot tub does the trick. Saturday or Sunday it will be back to the Dakota prairie. The camper will stay here until late Dec or early Jan, then off to the southwest. One joy has been reading Rolling Stone magazine. The political commentary is wonderful. If you want to laugh out loud read some of the articles by Matt Taibbi. Taibbi rips Sarah Palin to shreds and mocks the McCain bunch to the point you will be in pain laughing. Sadly it is all true. You can go on line and get a lot of his stuff.

Big Coal's Campaign of Lies

It seems strange for Lord Kadizzle to be assaulting the bread and butter that has put the food on his table for most of his life, but the truth is the truth. Read the article in Rolling Stone. North Dakota is run by a bunch of people who are promoting the lie. If you want a different view you will find it very enlightening.

Kadizzle finds religion

Sysyphus has always been Lord Kadizzles hero. Sysyphus symbolizes the futility of life, and the need to have a problem (see article below). While searching for a picture go to with the article Lord Kadizzle stumbled across the religion that lays claim to the picture. The religion has a lot of appeal, it goes at the problem straight forward. So I present to you:

The Story, so far, of The Church

The Church recognizes that The Savior died for our sins. If one fails to sin then one has chosen to prevent The Savior to save them. Heresy! Logically one must sin as much as possible to allow The Savior to perform his heavenly duties. This is, obviously, a duty that Sysyphus is only too happy to perform as the proud servant of The Savior in the role of El Grand Inquisitor.

The task of ensuring the faithful remain true to The Savior falls to Sysyphus alone. This thankless burden is one that Sysyphus pursues with great zeal. Other duties in the course of serving The Savior is hearing the confessions of the sinners, assigning a penance and offers absolution in the name of The Savior.

The faithful recognize the authority of El Grand Inquisitor as the sole voice of The Savior within The Kingdom of Loafington. Among the expectations of the faithful are complete obedience to The Court and their edicts no matter how ridiculous they may seem.

Heresy against The Church is a serious crime. Some of the more usual transgressions are heresy by thought, heresy by word & heresy by deed. What exactly comprises heresy is pretty much up to the whims of El Grand Inquisitor at that moment in time. Certainly refusing the commands of The Court is right up there as a pretty bad thing to do. Disrespecting The Court, any of the Knights or El Grand Inquisitor will not score any respect from The Court, so remember to behave!

Who exactly is The Savior? Well that’s for El Grand Inquisitor to know and for you to find out… :-)

El Grand Inquisitor is usually available to hear confession from any of the wayward faithful. Usually meaning when He is not busy “reeducating” a heretic or when He is not blitzed from too much communion wine. Remember to keep the confessions on the interesting side as the attention span of El Grand Inquisitor is minimal at best.

An indulgence, in the theology of The Church, is the full or partial remission of temporal punishment due for sins which have already been forgiven. In looser terms it is a get out of jail free card that The Church can give out for something you did, or plan to do, no matter what. Indulgences are available for purchase. El Grand Inquisitor does not accept credit cards, checks, money orders, travelers checks, counter checks or any form of currency. To purchase an indulgence you must offer something other than moolah. Use your imagination. Bags of Frop are always welcome as are Pils of Slack.

Any purified squires who are keen to toy with the idea of becoming an acolyte to El Grand Inquisitor and The Church must know that He has the attention span of an ADD inflicted 12 year old who ran out of Ritalin and must be constantly reminded of your acolyte status. It is possible that Sysyphus will forget who you are and that you already went through His acolyte initiation process unless you do something memorable to make Him remember you! Why someone would have any desire to become an assistant to a mad false prophet is beyond all reason, but El Grand Inquisitor does not judge. Well actually holding others in judgement is pretty much all He does.

The holy symbol of The Church of The Kingdom of Loafington is most apropos as it is not only the symbol for Sysyphus himself, it also represents abject futility. Religion. Abject futility. Yes. Very apropos indeed.

May the blessed light of The Crazy Diamond shine brightly upon thee.

-El Grand Inquisitor Sysyphus De Sade

Everyone Needs a Problem

So many times in life someone has come up to me and said "Why does he do that?". My answer is "He needs a problem". Have you ever seen someone with a clear cut simple solution make a project into a complicated mess? Two types come to mind. I know people who either want a sail boat, or an airplane. Instead of just buying one, they make a nightmare out of acquiring one by attempting to build it. One friend started over twelve years ago building a plane and it is still in the garage taking up space and reminding him of the money he wasted. Another friend has worked on a boat for over twenty five years. Look at the people you know and ask yourself how many times they deliberately created a problem for them self when a simple solution was at hand. Look at the results. Sometimes a victory is achieved and the result is terrific, but nine times out of ten it is a disaster. I know a young couple that decided to move a house rather than build one. In retrospect it would have been so simple in cheap to build one, but now they have a problem that will last for years. Most of these attempts start with the delusion "I can save a lot of money". Most of the time they end up as an economic disaster. I always thing back to the time my uncle told me "A dog needs feas'. Dogs have it made, but they need something to battle, fleas are the perfect solution. The dog only knows its good, because the flea reminds him of what bad is. People are just big dogs.

New Sign at Snoocher Bears Den

Today we got the sign from last years Christmas present up at the Bodine estate. Of course we had close supervision by The Commander

Sleeping at the Rest Stop

The Kadizzles made it to the Snoocher Bear's house. Last night we slept for the second time at the rest stop in Wyoming. Twas a pleasant night in the Bigfoot. The Commander was concerned about the cold, but Lord Kadizzle actually enjoyed it an slept a little better. The day warmed up and we made a stop at the Sierra Trading Post. The Commander got some great bargains and then on to the bears house in the mountains.

Kadizzle Saved Woman from Hell

Last night Lord Kadizzle went to the symphony for the first time in over thirty years. His Lordship sat beside a woman he had spoken with two weeks earlier. The woman was the daughter of two chronic Republicans, and was the sad victim of lifelong exposure to erroneous thinking. In our earlier meeting she promised to vote for Obama, after she was lectured on the evils of Republicanism. To my amazement she said she proudly voted for Obama, and even took a picture of her ballot to show me.

It brings me great joy to know how close this woman was to going to hell when she had the good fortune of meeting me a week before the election. To know one person does not have to suffer eternal damnation because of a small effort I made brings me great joy.

Bonus Bullshit

What is at the root of the current economic crisis is the excessive greed of CEO's and the wealth. If you want an article that will blow the myth of bonuses out of the water read about an experiment done to see how effective bonuses are. The article is in the NYT today Experiments prove people paid huge bonuses actually perform worse. Shove that up the tailpipe of the greedy auto execs asking for bailouts.

A President that can speak English

How refreshing to hear Obama speak. He can put sentences together using real words. Unlike the garbled nonsense of Palin, or the invented words of Bush, Obama uses real words that have meaning and make sense.

Grandpa to be

Sometime in May Lord Kadizzle will become a grampadinian. The Snoocher Bear who lives deep in the woods of the Colorado mountains is going to have a cub. It will be a whole new world for The Commander and Lord Kadizzle. The Commander will manage every breath both Erin and Gilbert take. Oh yes, in the strange mental landscape of the Kadizzles, sister Megan has already named the baby Gilbert. Regardless of sex or Erin's preference Megan now has given the pending arrival the code name Gilbert. Lord Kadizzle has requested a child with a stem, but the bear says she wants the sex to be a surprise, so the flavor will remain a mystery. Lord Kadizzle looks forward to having someone of his own mental capacity he can communicate with. Since his Lordship has six sisters, two daughters, and a wife, one more girl will not be a problem, but being out numbered should have some limits.

The Wordsmith from Wasilla

How anyone could ever doubt Sarah Palin is an idiot is something I cannot comprehend. The following is taken from the NYT:

What on earth are our underpaid teachers, laboring in the vineyards of education, supposed to tell students about the following sentence, committed by the syntax-serial-killer from Wasilla High and gleaned by my colleague Maureen Dowd for preservation for those who ask, “How was it she talked?”

My concern has been the atrocities there in Darfur and the relevance to me with that issue as we spoke about Africa and some of the countries there that were kind of the people succumbing to the dictators and the corruption of some collapsed governments on the continent, the relevance was Alaska’s investment in Darfur with some of our permanent fund dollars.

And, she concluded, “never, ever did I talk about, well, gee, is it a country or a continent, I just don’t know about this issue.”

If you thought George Bush was incapable of the Englich language, Sarah made him look good.

The Crazies never quit

The Bismarck paper has a story on the front page today about how gun dealers are selling so many guns. The simple minded are sure you will not be able to get all the guns you need when Obama takes over. Do I really need to say more about how simple minded these people are or the fact that there are a lot of them. Every election we lose our minds worrying about guns gays and god, and we still have guns, gays, and god every time we have an election. Are people really that stupid? The coffee shop mentality is amazing. According to local conventional wisdom, you can be more sure of what you hear at the coffee shop and bar, than any real news source, unless of course it is Rush or Fox.