Senator Conrad surrenders to Hoopleheads

North Dakota is plagued with people who believe in Rush Limbaugh and believe in the death panels of Sara Palin. Instead of confronting these people directly, Conrad has chosen to play into their hands. Conrad says he will not go along with the "Public Option". Any real reform with health care will never happen if we do not have a public option. If you want to give up everything we gained by getting rid of Bush do nothing. If you want to move Forward let Conrad know he has lost your support if he caves in to the hoopleheads.

Gofer caught in front yard using Hooplehead device

Yesterday Lord Kadizzle set out to capture a vicious gofer that set up residence near our front door. For 19.95 Lord Kadizzle bought the Kern's gofer begone device. The manufacture actually sent their sales representative to my house with the device. He arrived on a motorcycle with a helmet designed to make him look like a large gofer riding a motorcycle.

The factory rep gave me a brief run down on how the trap worked. You place the trap near the gofer hole. The trap is nothing but a piece of drain pipe with a sock on the end. Now the agent explained gofers are just like Hoopleheads, you can scare them into doing anything. He asked if I was a Republican politician. When I asked why, he said that in order to catch gofers you had to lie and be able to scare Hoopleheads.

The agent told me you set up a situation where the gofer would get scared and find it easier to run into the trap than get back to his hole. Lork Kadizzle began to see the scheme. It was just like bilking the Hooples.

So after the salesman left I put the trap out by the front door. When the gofer went out and toward the seeds I sprinkled near the trap, I rushed out the door and yelled "Obama is going to kill your grandmother". The gofer panicked just like a Hoopleheads and ran right into the trap. Now, I had him. Later I caught one by yelling "Obama will raise taxess".

The device is wonderful and comes with a recipe book. Now that Lord Kadizzle has used it he feels just like Rush Limbaugh or a Fox News anchor. Just make up anything yell it at the gofers and they are trapped when they run to the wrong hole.

70 Percent of southerns idiots, Lord Kadizzle may be one

The commander just read Lord Kadizzle some statistics from the news paper. Forty seven percent of southerners believe Obama was not born in the U.S. and thirty percent are not sure. That means seventy percent of southerners don't have a clue. Poor old Lord Kadizzle is from West Virginia, and that by some is considered the south. Kadizzle saw Obama's birth certificate printed in color in Newsweek, so Kadizzle is convincienced Obama is an American, but there is not shortage of idiots in the south who willo believe any urban legend. Now, lets all go out and kill some grannies just like the new health bill says we should.

Jihad Day Lord Kadizzle takes on the Back Crackers

Yesterday Blue Cross sent me an email with some information I requested. I am paying over ten dollars per month for coverage by Chiropractors. I hate Chiropractors, they are modern day witch doctors. They are the singe biggest fraud perpetrated on health care consumers. If you are willing to do your homework you will find the whole profession has no basis in science and there is not data to support what they claim. So today I started my Chiropractor jehad.

These scoundrel went to the ND legislature and had Chiropractic care mandated in all ND insurance policies. Of course the hoopleheads fell for it lock stock and barrell. Consumer Reports research indicates that Chiropractors and message therapist run neck and neck for results. The message therapist are honest. They just rub you and make you feel good. On the other hand the vodoo guys make all sorts of wierd claims and charge twice as much.

Quinn's Crack on Lake Sakakawea

Hoopleheads going to have another Tea Party

After the first great tea party was stirred up by Fox News the Hoopleheads are going to give it another try. If at first you don't succeed, try the stupid idea again. If there is one thing the Hoopleheads like, it is being scared. Hoopleheads are just like little children. They love to be frightened. Terrorist scare Hoopleheads, any change in our hopeless health care scares hoopleheads, and nothing scares them like a black president. It just isn't right. So the king of the hooples, good old Rush Limbaugh, you know the guy who got hooked on oxycontin supplied by his cleaning lady, likes to feed their racist fears. Of course he could not just outright say what he wants to stir up, but he knows the code words.

You can sell the Hoople anything. Who buys the crap Billy Mays used to sell? Yup, the Hoopleheads. The Hoopleheads bought the story lock, stock and barrell about Obama not being an American citizen. The Hooples still believe in the 100mpg carborator GM suppressed to help the oil companies. Urban legends are like fairy tales to the Hooples. When a moma Hoople puts her kids to sleep at night she tells the little Hooples about someone in Canada who had to wait for medical treatment.

Week Long Sail, in searh of Marsh Mellow Trees

For twenty years or more the Week Long Sail has been a tradition on the big lake. Tomorrow the Kadizzles will head west for a week. The Commander just reported north west winds for tomorrow. This will not be favorable. The dangers are many, storms, drunkenness, Indian attacks, rattlesnakes, and games of dare to be stupid. However, someone has to continue the search for a Northwest Passage. With the lake at its highest levels in years we may be able to find a trade route to Seattle.

A total of perhaps five ships will be in the fleet. If we can find a country with health care for everyone we will try to capture some of the natives and bring them back to explain how it works. Prior to the trip everyone must be immunized against socialism. There have already been outbreaks in the blue states. Should socialism spread everyone might have a chance to live like the rich and equality could spread everywhere, so it is important we stop it before rich people loose their second homes and private jets. With global warming the marshmellow trees are blooming early and we hope to pick some when we get far enough west.

Lake Sakakawea Paridise

The Amazing Hoopleheads

Lord Kadizzle was just spinning the channels and stopped to watch CNN. CNN showed the newspaper from the day Obama was born in Hawaii. There was a birth announcement for Obama printed in the paper. Of course we all know the hoopleheads have started an urban legend that Obama is not an American. How do the hoopleheads refute this evidence. People are finding papers with the annoucement. If this is fakery it is the most amazing ever. Fooling the hoopleheads is the simplest thing in the world. A hooplehead believes if a lot of people say something at the coffee shop it is true. The hoopleheads never go to a web site to check out the origin of an urban legend. Hoopleheads are like children they cling on to their fantasy. God bless the hoopleheads after all they are what make Republicans possible.

Death from Kindness or Pig on the Prarie recipe

Lord Kadizzle lives the charmed life when it comes to knowing good cooks. First and foremost is The Commander. The Commander could season puppy chow and make a gourmet meal out of it. Lord Kadizzle knows more good cooks than you can shake a stick at. Rarely do three days go by that some good cook doesn't invite the Kadizzles by. Yesterday was typical. Kadizzle went to the boat to perform some simple task, as simple people do, and the next thing he knew he was sitting in front of some wonder german potato salad, brauts freshly cooked on the grill and a fresh garden salad. The kindly boat neigbors turned the gab session into a grab session. Since we were eating aboard we even untied the kitchen from the dock and took a minor spin around the bay. When Lord Kadizzle dies from overeating he may not fit in a casket. The alternative will be to creamate him. It will be a blazing fire with all the fat. The smoke will smell like prime rib, turkey stuffing, and a host of other wonderful seasonings that have marinated him for over sixty years. Put the fire out a little early and let the coyotes have pig on the prarie.

Arial Pictures of Moose Bay

Donna King took this nice picture of Moose Bay with the sail boats from their plane

Juneberry Heaven

A couple years ago Lord Kadizzle ran for the North Dakota legislature. One of his main goals was to have legislation passed that some pies could not be served without vanilla ice cream. Unfortunately Kadizzle lost. Now pies are subjected to improper treatment. The most precious pie know to man is the Juneberry pie. God put a special blessing on North Dakota this year and Juneberries are plentiful. The Commander, A.K.A. Jasper Littlebottom loves to pick Juneberries. So there are some nice Juneberry pies in the future. The Juneberry pie is sacred, but an entry was recieved in the strawberry, rubarb catagory at Ray's that may win. One minor problem, for reasons of fairness, all entries must be duplicated. The theory is that anyone could accidently make a wonderful pie. To protect all entries in Lord Kadizzles baking contest entrants are required to submit two pies withing six months. However if no other entries are recieved in the same catagory you may still win. Being the judge of pie contest is a sacrifice. Few judges escape the occupational hazard of being overweight. Many are killed by obesiety just to provide society with this vital service. I hope Kadizzle's life will not be in vain, and pies will go untested. Pies cannot be entered with photos, as one mean brother in law frequently tries to do. Also hersey is not permitted. Lord Kadizzle must be present at the slicing and actually test the pie.

Old sidewinder misses young sidewinder

This morning Lord Kadizzle went for a hike during the sailing adventure. Be the brave soul he is he led the small group into the vast prairie wilderness. As a precaution his lordship always takes his hiking stick and checks for the rattlers in the path. However, this morning he somehow stepped right over one without noticing. The next hiker said "You almost stepped on a rattlesnake, there it goes". The rattler holed up under a rock and prepared to defend himself. It make you wonder how many you have stepped over and never even noticed.

Kate sends a letter from the Hills of Home

A West Virginia State trooper pulled a car over on I-77 about 2 miles from the West Virginia/Ohio state line.

When the trooper asked the driver why he was speeding, the driver said he was a magician and juggler and was on his way to Zanesville, Ohio to do a show at the Shrine Circus. He didn't want to be late.

The trooper told the driver he was fascinated by juggling and asked if the driver would do a little juggling for him then he wouldn't give him a ticket.

He told the trooper he had sent his equipment ahead and didn't have anything to juggle. The trooper said he had some flares in the trunk and asked if he could juggle them. The juggler said he could, so the trooper got 5 flares, lit them and handed them to him.

While the man was juggling, a car pulled in behind the patrol car. A drunken good ole 'bubba' from Kentucky got out, watched the performance, then went over to the
patrol car, opened the rear door and got in.

The trooper observed him and went over to the patrol car, opened the door asking the drunk what he thought he was doing.

The drunk replied, "You might as well take my butt to jail cause there ain't no friggin' way I can pass that test."

Ozan and Mike at Berthold Bay

Lost Treasure in North Dakota

North Dakota has one of the most amazing unused resources imaginable. Lake Sakakawea spans over an enormous area right in the center of the state, but very few of the states 600,000 registered hoopleheads have ever been on it or realize how vast the lake is. If the state made even a moderate attempt to develope the tourism potential of the lake the economic impact could be vast. Between the states lack of imagination and to determination of the Corp of Engineers to suppress recreation, nothing ever happens to improve the lake facilities. The corp does everything it can to make any improvement difficult if not impossible. The state acts like the lake does not exist.

In a classic Corp State fiasco a new marina was built or should I say is still being built at Garrison. Garrison already had a five million dollar marina. Who would put two multimillion dollar marinias in one small town while there is not a single marina on the western three quarters of the lake? Brain dead is the only explanation. Ten million dollars in one place when three million in three places could have done wonders. For larger boats there are no facilites for over one hundred fifty miles of the lake. The amazing ineptitude of the state combined with the obstinance of the corp has assurred this lake will never reach it's potential. However, this may be just fine for a lot of people that enjoy the solitude, and I may just count myself one of them.

Jasper Littlebottom up early and at em

Our gardener Jasper Littlebottom shot out of the house like a rocket today and started raking under the pine trees and trimming. Not even eight O clock and the pickup has a load of pine needles. Now Littlebottom wants Kadizzle to get his bottom in gear and dump the mess. Littlebottom has been diagnosed with hyperactivity. Hyperactivity has it's pros and cons. Thank god Littlebottom is going to the dentist so Kadizzle can rest a little.

Contributing Editor sends wonderful gravity music

Lord Kadizzle the direct decendant of a wet lump.

On Facebook my sister Kathleen wrote the following about my father. "Corey's photo of backyard camping reminded me of when Daddy was sleeping with us in the pup tent in our back yard as kids and we all got up and went inside because of his snoring and then it rained and the tent fell down on him and that didn't wake him. The next morning I remember looking out the window at this lump in the yard...a wet lump.

For years I have wondered where the lump above my belt, and below my chin came from. It never occurred to me many of my kin have the same lump. Now, I realize we are all direct decedents of a wet lump. Not long ago Lord Kadizzle went to the doctor. The Commander always complained that Lord Kadizzle was too fat. So at the doctors office Kadizzle asked the doctor if he was too fat. No, the doctor replied, you have lumpadiglyitis. Lumpadiglyitis causes a severe swelling around the waste. It turns out lumpadiglyitis is a genentic trait aquired by decendents of wet lumps.

Fire at rumor mill, hoopleheads speechless

A couple days ago the local coffee shop had a fire. The place had to close for a few days. Hoopleheads get most of their news and stories second hand. For local myths, legends, and just plain lies the coffee shop is very important. The people who firmly believe Barrack Obama does not have a birth certificate get assurance at the coffee shop that he is a terrorist.

So when the hoopleheads could not get confused at the coffee shop they all had to sit home and rely on Fox News to scare them and keep their heads spinning with falshoods. Joy has returned to Hazen and the coffee shop is open.

Now for an example of how hooplehead knowledge works. About a week ago a tornado was spotted near Beulah. Some local dinger set off the warning system in Beulah. However, the dinger did not do it correctly and he managed to set off the alarms in Hazen, and Stanton in addition to the alarm in Beulah. Well immediately the hoopleheads used reverse hooplehead thinking to conclude that if there was an alarm, there was a tornado. Even though the sky are clear, and all evidence points to no tornado, coffee shop wisdom says there was one. The basic principle of coffee shop truth is that if a lot of people believe something it is true. Sometimes the definition of a lot of people is everyone sitting at your table at the rumor mill.

Usually the morning starts out at the coffee shop with a big hooplehad swaggering in and pulling up a chair. The hoople regurgitates something scary Fox News made up the night before, so the hoople says, " Did you hear about Obama grinding up all the shell casings so we cannot get ammunition?". Without any thought the game is on and the hooples are going wild. No hooplead ever goes to an urban legend site to check out anything.

Did you ever wonder who buys all the Amish heaters you see advertised or the other stuff Billy May sell's. Yup it is the hooples. When you go in a hooplehead home and see the Edin Pure magical heater right beside the lounge chair you know you are dealing with a hooplehead. Hazen has so many hoopleheads the Edin Pure Heater man came every week. The salesman convinced the hooples that he could get two gallons out of a one gallon container. No problem. The hooples really love the heat you get from blowing air over two light bulbs hidden in a box. For a couple hundred bucks you could get one.

Gravity Waves everywhere

Few things are worse than unexpectedly getting hit by a gravity wave. Lord Kadizzle has a lot of experience and tips for those who may be struck. If the wave appears to be mild don't panic. For example: If you are doing a few dishes and a gravity wave starts to hit you, slowly move toward the den and sit down in front of the TV until the wave passes. This may take a news show, sometimes two. Once the wave has passed move back to the kitchen. As you get near the sink if you don't feel anything abnormal, go ahead and finish the dishes.

Now for the medium gravity wave, what do you do? Suppose you have been putzing about the yard and begin to feel heavier than normal. This is going to require a snore nap. Again this can be handled in the sitting position with the TV on or off. The important thing is to recline so the wave can be evenly distributed over your body, otherwise you might get crushed. A snore nap usually takes about fifteen minutes of hard snoring to break up the gravity. Remember to get up slowly.

Next we are going to discuss the massive gravity wave. To survive this you must completely lie down in a soft bed. Gravity is effected by sunlight, so normally one is safe until the sun starts to set, but don't be surprized if you are hit by a wave as early as 7:30. Once you feel a wave starting don't panic. Move slowly toward the bed. Sometimes the wave will pass in an hour or two and you can get up and safely watch TV or read. However, many waves will last all night and the best thing to do is remain prone until you feel completely safe.

What if you are at work and get hit by a wave? Quickly put your feet up on the desk. Be very careful that your chair does not go out from under you. I know several people who were almost killed in this fashion.

Don't take gravity lightly, it can strike anytime and anywhere. The key is to be proactive. At the first signs you are getting heavier get to the nearest couch and lay down. Kadizzle has survived some serious gravity wave which now seem to be more frequent with advanced age. Remember, don't let gravity get you down.

War has broken out in Hazen

As the morning coffee brewed Kadizzle thought someone was landing a jet at the Hazen international airport. It is a wonderful airport for a city our size. It cost about five million, and gets used so little we have drag races on the runway. Soon Kadizzle kept hearing the same jet landing over and over. No its not a jet landing, but a crop sprayer bombing weeds about a half mile away. The sound is like an old World War Two movie, when they make the straiffing runs. Perhaps I should run out with my pheasant gun and take a shot. I would say we are being bombed by the Germans, but we are the Germans. Hazen is about 90 percent German heritage.

Hazen does have it's own airforce. Colonel Klink as I call him is the commander. Klink patrols the skys over Hazen with a motorized parachute. One day I asked Klink if he ever practiced making emergency landings with our only weapon of defense. Klink replied " Why would you practice something you had to get right the first time?". Our town is fortunate to have several idiot sevants. We also have a good supply of just plane idiots. We are running low on bums.

The other day I encountered three of our best bums having a little conference. We discusssed the bum shortage, and Kadizzle learned one of the three was seeking work. If we get down to two bums Hazen has decided to advertize. If you don't have a good core of bums to hang around with each other their population is hard to sustain. They seemed to get so bored they go to work. I am afraid that is why we lost so many this summer. Most of our bums are leftover highshool kids that went to college for three months and could not take the rigor of getting up in the morning. They return to Hazen and live in their parents basements. They can take a lot of boredom and work scares them, but as I said you need a breeding population.

The Garden in Full Glory

Ozan, Lord Kadizzle and the Commander survive

Its been many years since his Lordship played a good round of dare to be stupid, but last night was a fine session. The key to a good round of dare to be stupid is starting with a bad situation. That way you can make it worse.

So in already high winds we headed west. With no more than a storm jib the boat was moving down the lake like a bullet. Kadizzle was luckily stopped by the crew from putting up the mainsail. As a cold front bore in from the west the boat was on a reach at over hull speed headed right into a terrible storm. To make it better we were trolling for lightening. To the southwest lighting was striking and of course we were headed right toward it.

The crew had little faith in the captain and insisted he did not know where Whitmeyer bay was. However, the captain turned out to be correct and the boat made it into the bay. As everyone was settled with the boat on anchor things seemed ok. The storm had a different idea. All of a sudden an already high wind increased to seventy or eighty mph. As Ozan tried to help with the Anchor his glasses were blown off by the wind. The boat came loose and the normal Chinese fire drill ensued. We survived by driving the boat onto the shore and pinning it down with trailer anchors. The video above was the ride back the next day. The boat set a new speed record of 9.2 knots. Amazingly this was done with only the storm jib. The smallest amount of sail the Sovereign can carry.

Far easier to talk to God, but Kadizzle has revenge for Verizon

A lot of frustration ensued today trying to reset our password on the Verizon system. Weaving my way back and forth fighting computer phone systems and people who sent me back to computer phone systems just about drove me over the brink. Why can't they have the first option be " Would a human being be able to solve your problem easier" press one. I think the next time I talk to human on a computer phone system and they ask me a question I will say "press one to say yes, or press two to say no". I will make them answer all my questions with key strokes.

Johny Appleseed removes Apple Tree

Summer in the land of Kadizzle is quite pleasant lately. Everything is exceptionally green. Today's big project was removing the stump from the apple tree. Apple trees are very tenacious. Lord Kadizzles technique is slow, but as they say Rome was not built in a day. My tool is a six ton hydraulic jack. For a tree its size I have seen few trees put up such a fight. The process took several hours in the hottest day in a long time.

One never knows how many pies were left in that tree. It is sort of like sending a car to the junkyard with gas in the tank. Mowing will be easier. With the bad economy we put a couple of twenty dollar bills in the hole in hopes that a money tree will sprout.

2009 Summer Sailstice Photo Gallery - Photo 1 of 14 by Rick - MySpace Photos

2009 Summer Sailstice Photo Gallery - Photo 1 of 14 by Rick - MySpace Photos

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The fleet back in Berthhold Bay

Everyone had a great sail and a great evening back in Berthold Bay. It was the first time in eight years we could get into the old traditional spot. Swam, had a camp fire the whole nine yards. Mrs. Kadizzle A.K. A. The Commander stayed home and gardened, but David Mack and two year old Audrey along with her mom Amanda made the trip. Audrey was a good sailor. Good sail home on Sunday. This Saturday the fleet will gather there again to celebrate Summer Sailstice. Anyone who can get there is welcome by land or sea. The more the merryer.

The staggers and jags

Yesterday Lord Kadizzle and a friend who has requested to remain anonymous launched one more boat for a friend. As a reward the friend gave us a bottle of gin. Not a good idea. After the launch we settled on the deck of the Sovereign for a little social with the neighboring house boat. It was a pleasant sunny day with good conversation. However when we left the spirits were gone, and perhaps we were a little over served as they say. We had the staggers and jags. Stan Rogers in one of my favorite songs Barrette's Privateers mentions the staggers and jags.

" The Antelope sloop was a sickening sight,
HOW I WISH I WAS IN SHERBROOKE NOW!
She'd a list to the port and and her sails in rags
And the cook in scuppers with the staggers and the jags

	Twitching, loss of balance and motor skills, and hallucinations caused by intense alcohol abuse; technical term is delirium tremens. 1. "And the cooks cleaned the kitchen with the staggers and the jags." -- Gillian Welch & David Rawlings 2. The barfly barely made it to the restroom through the staggers and jags.

Definition of "the staggers and jags"

The Amazing Hoopleheads vote against Air

Lord Kadizzle lives in a state dominated by hoopleheads both on the state and local level. The hoopleheads philosophy is when in doubt just vote or say no. Yesterday the hooples in our town voted against having natural gas in our town. Even though every hoople could save five hundred dollars per year in heating cost the hooples voted it down. How can this be? Hooples don't get information like you and I might. The hooples get most of their information at the bar or the coffee shop. Urban legends, rumors, and myths flourish with drunks and old geezers having coffee. The fundamental thing of a hoople is that "If it is different it must be bad". Hooples like their meat burnt, they don't like seasoning, and any word that has more than six letters is probably a conspiracy. On the state level the hooples just removed any requirements for teaching your children at home. This will insure a fresh supply of hooples. However, the hooples upped the requirement for message therapist and now require both licensing and additional training. You can be dumb as hell in North Dakota, but a least you will get a good back rub. Any Questions.

There Must be a God

Merrily Lord Kadizzle has been cutting the grass for the last hour. The Bible says "Two sparrows are sold for a penny, aren't they? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father's permission. . It was not a sparrow, but a young Robin. Paying little attention I was going about my grass cutting when for some reason I happened to look down. Instantly I stopped three inches from a young robin that must have just left the nest. Three inches and that poor fellow would have known the feeling of going through a jet engine like the birds on the Hudson did when they brought down the Airbus.

The fact that at the last instant I managed to see the bird felt like the intervention of the divine. Unfortunately God must have been watching TV yesterday. I pushed the mower under the neighbors cedar tree and bird parts flew everywhere. My assumption was I had hit the carcass of a bird killed by cats. However, today I am haunted that I may have hit the sibling of the fellow saved today. The moral of the story is God acts in strange ways.

Wood Ducks March to creek at Kadizzle's

The neighbors in our area have gone to great lengths to raise Wood Ducks. So every spring about fifty new ducks get hatched. Both neighbors have cameras in the wood duck houses so they can see the entire process

Myan Calander still in use in Mercer County.

At the fine Marina where I store my boat one signs a contract that requires Lord Kadizzle to have his boat out of the storage lot by May 15. Due to the fact the the docks where I keep my boat were not ready my boat could not go in the water until June 8th. The owner of the storage lot, and marina where my boat is stored explained to me there are two months between May 15, and June 3, the date I put my boat in the water. So instead of paying one month's late fee the man of infinite integrity with a cross in his front yard wants me to pay him for the Mayan month of Cashaflowa which runs from May 15 to the end of May, and the Julian Calander of June, which in his infinite Christian magnanamous way he refuses to prorate. Perhaps I was wrong about the cross in his yard and it was a left over remnant from a Klan barbeque.

Grandpa Ticklepinch

Old Grandpa Ticklepinch got his boat in the water yesterday. Took a brief sail to the other side of the lake. Summer has finally dawned in the great northwest.

The Good Life

Lord Kadizzle and her ladyship the Commander attended our nephew's reception dinner at The Country Club of Virginia last night. Kadizzle engaged one of the fine gentleman serving cigars in a conversation about the economy. He pointed out things were not that bad. The cigarilio suggested Lord Kadizzle cast his gaze upon the new twelve million dollar swimming complex just provided for the comfort of the members. There were a total of five full size pools for every need. It was indeed a marvelous complex. In our little town of Kadizzleville we struggle to fund a small wellness center. It brings Kadizzle comfort to know the lord is just, and none of his children needs are ignored.

The Ticklepinch

Somehow everyone ends up with a nickname. The families newest addition has been christened Ticklepinch. Nick names have always proliferated with Lord Kadizzle. Molly up the street has always been Doodlebug. Her brother is J for Johnson, or just J For. His name comes from an old commercial. My name is Johnson, J for Johnson, not j for jelly, not j for Jones, but J for Johnson. Charlie was always forced to repeat this name under the threat of being tickled when he was little. Charly's cousin ended up with the name Him. Him is a her, but became Him because she always called everyone Him. She would say "What is Him doing" or "Does Him want to play?". Now the big brother and little brother up the street are Biscuit and Gravy. Gravy has been a little sick lately, and his little brother always reports on Gravy's health. The wild Mannies lived behind us. There were four boys. It was too combersome to give each a nickname, so they were all just wild Mannies. The little boy behind us was adopted from Chile, so he became the Chile Bean. His sister was Natilie Jean, so she became Natilie Jean the dancing Queen. Danny Donovan became Donavichi. Of course Lord Kadizzles own kids have a host of nicknames that goes on for ever depending on the stage of life. Megan has been The Pie Monkey, Bumsker, Bumskidini, Chi Chi, and Cheech. Erin has been Jones, The Snoocher Bear, and just plane snooch.

Fun things to read today

Wow, read the NYT editorials today. If you are an old hard core right winger you can make coffee with the steam that will shoot out your ears. Between Rumsfield and Cheney it is hard to decide who out does the other for being the ultimate evil scum. Of course those on the right will have some kind of self delusional spin. If you have some spin to explain how all the crap Rummy and Darth Vader pulled, please share it.

Our spoiled children

Every time Lord Kadizzle meets a young person from abroad the thought hits him "How can American kids compete". Compared to foreign students our children are so lazy and far behind it is amazing the U.S. still has a place in the world. Most of the young American kids I know are off on a lark. They have graduated from high school and are going to spend a couple years surfing or learning to play the guitar while they work as a waiter. When you ask so many American kids what they are going to do the first reply is be a star athlete. We had five boys that lived next to us and everyone of them was going to be a champion hocky player. I know at least five kids who had athletic careers fizzle out on them quickly. While they are learning to be champions they study sports massage in college or some other useless skill. Meanwhile the foriegn students are studing engineering, science, and math. Our school system is hopelessly behind, and our kids have no concept of what it is to study and concentrate. I was a terrible student. Somehow I made it, but I was not competing for a job with someone from India, Turkey, or some other country where people study and learn, thank god or I would have starved. Without exception every foreign student I meet speaks at least two languages. Most of them speak and write better English than the kids in our local high school.

I want to hug and kiss this woman

The Family that surfs together stays together

Wanda Sykes cooks Limbaugh Hanity You will pee your pants

Rush and Hanity go down in flames at National Press Club, check out this link and watch the video, be prepared to pee your pants laughing.

What a piece of work, The North Dakota Legislature

This morning Kadizzle read through the laws the legislature passed this year. Unbelievable. Now, you can home school your kids with no supervision or education requirements. Kadizzle has seen first hand how fundamentalist abuse the home schooling system to exploit their children, this is a crime against children committed by our elected representatives. Next on the agenda is a law that limits a young pregnant girls access to healthcare for her unborn. You figure that one out. The best is the law that people seeking an abortion must be shown an ultrasound and told that it is a real person inside them. What did they think it was a watermellon? Of course these idiots have to pander to the gun lobby by making sure more people can carry guns in more places. Why not do the full monty like Utah and make it so you can carry a gun to church? What better way to fight the devil. As usual they had to put in some special breaks for farmers, and big donors to the Republican party. They rejected and help for young childrens health care because it might lead to socialism. These old goats are the cancer that is killing our state and the paranoid Limbaughlites who vote for them are leading to the demise of any hope for our state.

The Kadizzelette sufffers from Hiccupps.

The Parting Glass

Lord Kadizzle found the most wonderful instrumental by Alisa Jones, called The Parting Glass. Kadizzle judges music by what he wants played at his funeral. The plan is to cremate Kadizzle and put him in a coffee can. The Commander will make a decision at the end of Kadizzles life if the coffee can will be plastic or steel, depending on what The Commander thinks Kadizzle deserves. Kadizzle would like some nice music and singing while everyone stands around the coffee can and gets drunk. Picking out the music is one of Kadizzles favorite pass times. Kadizzle would like to have a few ashes shot out of a shotgun at a pheasant, a few scattered on the lake, and of course capsules will be available for those who wish to put a suitable end to Kadizzle. If you watch this video listen to the words, but remember the instrumental is far better if you can find it.

Grandpa and the Snoocher

A tribute to those who want to go backwards

Today's Project

Lord Kadizzle is an old man, sixty years old now. Add to the age of Kadizzle 8500ft of altitude and work becomes very difficult. In fact work is difficult for Kadizzle at sea level. Today's project is phase two of bridge replacement. The old bridge had to be removed. It was no easy task since it was made from logs and heavy timbers.

Phase two is putting in the culvert. With nothing but a shovel, pick, and a wheelbarrow this is a lot of work. Hopefully a gravel fairy will come tonight and dump a load on the culvert, but for now Kadizzle needs some medication from the distillation of corn.

Living the High Life

Erin's house is at 8500 feet. Kadizzle notices the altitude. The poor little Sylvie just entered the domain of the air breathers, and to start out at this altitude seems like a chore. Small plane pilots are supposed to use oxygen at 10,000 feet. Kadizzle could take a hike and be pretty close to that altitude. Among other problems is the coffee. At this level the water boils too soon and the coffee does not get hot enough to work properly. In summary the high life is not all it is cracked up to be.

Commander Instructs new recruit

The Big Bad Wolf

Today in the New York Times there is a lengthy article about Dutch socialism. Republicans use the term socialism like the "F" word. Take the time to read the article and you will quickly see why the Dutch are very happy with their system, and why it scares the right wingers here so badly. The idea of sharing is quite contrary to the right wing. Very strange that in a so called "Christian" country people would be so opposed to sharing. One of the most interesting things about the Dutch system is how it came about. The Dutch had to cooperate to deal with the fact that they all live below sea level. Cooperation became a way of life. Wow what a terrible thing. Imagine Bill O the clown on Fox or Rush reading the article, steam would emit from their ears and they would be stuttering trying to bash the Dutch system.

Who would Jesus torture?

Strange reality, but your average Christian likes torture better than your average atheist. Check it out in this Washington Post article

A new Kadizzled Generation

After a very long trip, a very long day, and a very long pregnancy a little Kadizllette girl was brought into the kingdom.

Shooting up the Republican cult.

Between Matt Taibbi, and Robert Thomas of the NYT the Republicans have been shot up pretty bad today. Matt Taibbi will make you laugh out loud with his article in Rolling Stone, April 30. THE REPUBLICANS' BANKRUPTCY OF IDEAS. Robert Thomas goes along the same lines, be sure to read both.

Al Swerengen from Deadwood gets Kadizzled in trouble

It might have been Kadizzle, but I think it was Al from Deadwood who got the blog in trouble. Got a report the Kadizzle Blog has been blocked at the Columbus, New Mexico library. They have more murders and drug dealers per ca pita than anywhere on earth, but they will not tolerate Al swearing. It is nice to know they have some standards. Kadizzle is sure when they gun down someone in Polomas right across the border from Columbus they just say "Jee Wiz, they just shot the kindly gentleman".

Fooling the Hoopleheads in coal country

Yesterday Lord Kadizzle took a tour through coal country and visited two of the construction sites where major scrubbers are being built to clean the exhaust from the coal fired plants. When the switch is flipped on to make these scrubbers work, a lot of power from the plant will go into running the scrubber. The nature of the universe dictates that it takes energy to remove pollutants from the exhaust stream of a coal fired plant. This was well known from the start. Clean coal energy may not be possible, and if it is , it may not be affordable. No one likes to admit the reality, but it is a failed technoloby at this point. Nuclear power for better or worse is the only thing that comes close to a solution. The people who have so much tied up in coal leases, and coal fired power plants do not want to admit the end for coal has arrived, so a massive fool the hoopleheads campaing is on right here in river city. The big rumor now circulating is that the scrubbers will be completed, but not turned on, because the energy input cost are unworkable. The deciples of the coal barons are being sent about with messages of doom and gloom. The hoopleheads will soon be all a twitter, and of course if all this can be linked to Obama so much the better. Sit back and watch the play unfold.

Who sent the comment?

Below is a comment sent in by some anonymous person. A lot of it sounds like it was taken right out of the Kadizzle playbook. I wonder if someone is spoofing me or really agrees with a lot of what I believe? I would like to know some of the sources for the figures quoted. Fundamentally who ever wrote it believes as I do. You cannot allow one percent of the population to accumulate some outrageous percent of the wealth and expect the economy to survive. That is it in a nut shell. It is also interesting that no one talks about this problem. Just like "the person" says. It is a forbidden topic. The favorite game today is to call anyone who proposes that the rich share with the rest of us a "socialist". Socialism is just a fancy term for sharing, and we all know that is bad. Sharing encourages laziness. So don't give your kids anything, it will just make them worthless. Do you really belive that? Most amazing of all is that this is a "Christian" country. What a strange religion that promotes such greed and says it is what the lord wants?

A Bonus for wrecking the economy

When will the country wake up and stop paying the greedy bastards that are at the top of our food chain? Read Herbert's article in the NYT today. In the old days these thieves used to be taxed severly for their greed. Now, all they have is a sense of entitlement, and no obligation.

The audacity of the greedy

Two good articles appeared today. In the NYT Paul Krugman writes about how the big bankers still think they deserve outrageous salaries even after they have literally destroyed the economy and sent millions of retirements into obscutity. Over at the Washington Post there is a good article about how the little greed dogs with small businesses don't want to be taxed. A woman who makes over 500k per year from her day care chain doesn't want to have to pay 23k more in taxes. She just can't get by on 500k. Oh my times are tough.

Kadizzle childhood home nominated for award

Someone has taken the time to properly restore the childhood home of Lord Kadizzle and the family has been nominated for a local historical preservation award. Surely this will someday be a national monument. Kadizzle's sister Kate sent him the pictures and a history of the man who built the house. Of course the original owner was in the brewery business.

The porch swing on the left side of the porch played the most critical role of anything in my life. Sleeping on that swing one day Kadizzle was awakened by a friend. The friend asked Kadizzle to ride along to a job application process. It is a long story, but it was that swing that started Kadizzle's career in the coal industry and lead to every major event in his life. If that nap had not taken place the entire history of world events would be different.

Dick Cheney does musical for Republicans

Dick Cheney the ultimate scum

Dick Cheney walked away from Haliburton with a nice 600 million dollar bonus. That alone should tell the story. However, the man never can get enough. His little company made a fortune as the prime contractor for the Iraq war. After being the puppeteer for Bush all these years and completely destroying so many aspects of our country, that is not enough. The worse than senseless dogmeat scum wants to stick around Washington and throw stones at Obama. Obama is trying to patch up world relations Cheney and Bush worked so hard to destroy, and what does old Mr. Cheney do? Like so many on the right he has nothing constructive to add, but is certianly there to hinder. Keep in mind Mr. Cheney's company is the one that was selling the Army a case of Coke for 45$. The man is a real patriot. Now Mr. Cheney is saying "Well just look at the good information we got from torturing". However, don't look at how it destroyed our place in the world. Bush and Cheney have been the biggest disgraces ever to this country. At least Bush had the decency to crawl in a hole and let the world recover. Would someone put some dirt on Cheney and let weeds grow on him? Take ten minutes and do some homework. Cheney is the one who went to the CIA and insisted there were weapons of mass distruction in Iraq, even thouth all the evidence the CIA had said there were not. Cheney was the number one cheer leader for the lie about Iraq, now we are supposed to believe what he tells us?

Jasper Littlebottom, A.K. A. The Commander has spring fever

Jasper Little bottom has spring fever. As a result of her fever she has been slave driving poor Kadizzle to clean up the yard. The yard is now to the point you could do surgery anywhere. However to day we are going to dig up all the earth worms and wash them. Once Littlebottom gets into her garden it will be a blessing. She will be in another world and Kadizzle will be able to concentrate on doing nothing. Boating season is fast approaching so perhaps Kadizzle can run up to the lake and start the ardurous task of getting the good ship ready.

Fleas threaten to leave dog

A large herd of hoopleheads in Texas is considering leaving the United States. Why would any state that gets back more from the federal government than it puts in leave? This would be like Rush Limbaugh threatening to go to Canada if we don't let him have his Oxycontin. North Dakota is another prime example. Our local hoopleheads are in hog heaven because North Dakota has a surplus. Take away federal farm subsidies, and we will all be wandering around like the people in New Orleans after Katrina hit. As a friend on face book said to Texas " When you leave, don't let the door hit ya, where the lord split ya".

Ruler of the Universe about to emerge

This morning Lord Kadizzle got up early. Sinus problems make sleep impossible. Kadizzle has been up for about an hour. The Supreme Commander is stirring in the back of the house. If Kadizzle was smart he would turn into Hoppy the servant and make some coffee for The Commander. The shower is running so there is yet time to get the coffee going. Whups, The Commander just shouted from the bedroom for coffee. Kadizzlel will take The Commander the newspaper with the coffee. Good move Kadizzle. Of course it will be fresh ground coffee with half and half.

If one wants peace and quite one should do what one can to keep The Commander happy in the bedroom. In this case it means coffee and the newspaper. Once The Commander emerges orders will be barked and the ship of state will be underway. Lately The Commander has been threatening we are going to swab the decks. Lord Kadizzle is going for a job interview on Monday. Last year they asked "Why do you want to work for us?". Kadizzle answered "Its easier than working for the commander". If Kadizzle can fool The Commander by claiming he must dust up his resume today, perhaps he can avoid the humiliation of putting on his scrub woman outfit and bowing to the commands of The Commander. Wish me luck.

Update: As Hoppy delivered the coffee he was chastised because the cream was insufficient. Hoppy quickly ran to the kitchen and returned with the proper mixture. At 7:23 the house is quite and The Commander is distracted with the paper. Praise the Lord.

Magic by Bruce Springstien

Bruce wrote this and dedicated it to the Republican Party. It is so appropriate as they struggle to fool the hoopleheads. You need to hear it to music.


I got a coin in my palm
I can make it disappear
I got a card up my sleeve
Name it and I’ll pull it out your ear
I got a rabbit in my hat
If you wanna come and see
This is what we’ll be
This is what we’ll be


I got shackles on my wrists
Soon I’ll slip and I’ll be gone
Chain me in a box in the river
And Rising in the Sun
Trust none of what you hear
And less of what you see
This is what we’ll be
This is what we’ll be


I got a shiny saw blade
All I need’s a volunteer
I’ll cut you in half
While your smilin’ at me
And the freedom that your songs
Drifting like a ghost amongst the trees
This is what we’ll be
This is what we’ll be


Now there’s a fire down below
But it’s coming up here
So leave everything you know
Carry only what you feel
On the road the sun is sinkin’ low
Sombody’s hanging in the trees
This is what we’ll be
This is what we’ll be

Give McCain Credit

Regardless of party affiliation you have to admire someone who can admit they made a mistake. John McCain has disassociated himself with Sarah Palin. Rather than make any attempt to keep up the illusion that Palin is anything but an airhead, McCain has made it pretty clear he accepts the fact that he made a terrible mistake picking Palin as a running mate. Asked on a talk show who he would endorse for president for 2012 McCain gave a long list of Republican canidates that did not include Palin. McCain even pointed out the fact he left Palin out. If McCain can admit a mistake why can't the rest of them admit the Bush failure and embrace change?

North Dakota's future legislators, Biscuit and Gravy

As Lord Kadizzle walked outside for an evening stroll he noticed the remnants of a terrible crash. On the street was a shoe, a bicycle with rope entangled in the spokes and the chariot Biscuit was being towed in. Gravy came wandering down the street with one shoe, and Biscuit was not far behind. With great amusement his lordship noticed Biscuit had his cowboy shoes on the wrong feet. Surely this resulted from a confusion of left and right. Biscuit could walk right in the North Dakota legislature today and fit right in. All he has to remember is to go the direction his shoes point. This will only lead him in circles. A good legislator in North Dakota just goes around in circles interpreting God's will which remarkably resembles the wishes of the right wingers and the fundamentalist.

How do Artist celebrate Easter? Megan's Easter Eggs

"That's were the money is"

Apparently Willy Sutton the famous bank robber did not really say that, but the legend is that when asked why he robbed banks Willy answered "because that is where the money is". A lot of right wingers love to bitch about how much tax the people on top pay. They always cite half the story. You have to tax the rich heavily because as Willy said "because that is where the money is". The part the Rush Limbaugh gang always distorts is this: The Rushites legitimately say the rich pay a much higher proportion of the taxes than their numbers would justify, but they always leave out the part about how much of the GDP they get. What a deal! You pay forty or fifty percent of the tax, but you get 90% of the income. Rush and his gang always tell you one side of the equation, but always leave out the other. Who in their right mind would not line up to get ninety percent of the income, if you ONLY had to pay 40 percent of the taxes. Of course the pigs still bitch about the best deal on the planet, and the truth is if you understand the tax system (which is carefully constructed so you can't) you would know the rich really don't pay the taxes they whine about. If you doubt me read Warren Buffet's letter to the Washington Post. (Warren Buffet is the second richist man in the U.S. He spill the beans and explains how he pays less tax on a percentage basis than his secretary.) If we want to prosper as a country we have to revise the tax laws so ordinary Americans stand a chance. Of course your typical American is going to win the lottery next week, and he doesn't want to pay taxes on his winnings.

May you live in interesting times

It does not seem like a curse, but the phrase "May you live in interesting times " is an ancient Chinese curse. We are in the midst of those times, and that curse. The chickens are coming home to roost. Our economy is in shambles because we are about to pay the price for the McMansion mentality encouraged by a philosophy of greed. The whole notion that one group of people can prosper at the expense of many is about to be challenged in a way that will change the world. A writer recently pointed out that if the whole world lived like the United States, it would take seventy Earths to support our needs. The greed is good, consumption is good, and I deserve it philosophy promoted by the right wing likes of Rush Limbaugh is now going to assure that we live in interesting times.

Some say this could be good for us. It may be like the guy who ate too much and had a heart attack (could be me). Now the guy sets off on a health kick, eats right and starts to excercise. That would be the best outcome for our country.

Reality is going to come crashing down on our heads. The spoiled little brats we have raised are going to have to endure a different life style. The days of playing video games and having mom and dad hand you money are coming to a quick end. Our country may have to go back to being a place where people make things, and work consist of more than shuffling morgages, CDs and other illusary poker chips. The pied piper is out there. Glen Beck, Bill O the Fox News Clown, and of course Rush are all trying to blow air back into the right wing illusion that there is no global warming, if you just give tax breaks to the rich, and we are the greatest. Meanwhile there are no jobs, our credit card with the Chinese is about to be cancelled, and our kids are all finding out they cannot make a living playing video games or being hocky stars. What is the world coming to? Lets just go to church and pray.

Glaciers begin to receed in North Dakota

To this day you can walk in any field around here and see rocks glaciers left during the last ice age. The 2009 ice age is slowly coming to an end. Without question this has been one of the worst winters in a long time, unless you are one of the polar bears in our yard. The damage to trees, wildlife and just about everything is amazing. Our poor little town will have to clean up the parks and try to revive the trees.

There is a flip side. The lake is filling up and the sailing should be very good. Many of the old favorite places will now be accessible. Hopefully the good ship will be able to get all the way back into Berthold Bay and enjoy the old spot where the kids used to play. Another great area will be the Little Missouri. With ten more feet of water the fleet will be able to access many of the nice bays on the Little Missouri.

The Gun Nuts, Drive Kadizzle Nuts

Lord Kadizzle has always been around guns, and has owned a shotgun for over thirty years. Kadizzle hunts pheasants. However, Lord Kadizzle has a short temper for the crazy paranoid gun nuts that think you should be able to carry a handgun to churh. Utah actually made sure you were allowed to carry a gun to church. How much faith would you have if you had to be armed in church? Most of the gun nuts come from poor little nerds that were assualted on the playground.

One of the saddest things about the gun nuts is the effect they have on normal politics. In North Dakota you cannot get elected unless you swear alligiance to the NRA. If you are not an NRA member in North Dakota you are unelectable. What a sad state of affairs. There is a lot of this on the national level. The net result is our political system is held hostage by the guns, gays, and God bunch. In North Dakota nothing gets done because the legislators are all trying to prove they are more to the right than the next goof.

Kadizzle has seen too many hand guns in the hands of people that should not have them. This winter a neighbor in an RV park setting came over to visit with his revolver. He thought the thing was safe and was waving it around. Kadizzle asked to check the gun and found he had a live round in the chamber with the hammer on it. Mr. Gun nut thought there was a spent shell in the chamber. On questioning this old gumple it turned out he had a whole RV full of guns. It scares me that these nuts are all over the place and it is amazing more people are not shot.

The gun nuts have to shoot their guns in order to keep their testostrone running. If you go to the southwest, you can see where these people have shot up the country side. The Commander and Lord Kadizzle made a trip north of Phoeniz looking for Indian sites. When we got there it was amazing how many home shooting ranges were littered with gun nut pariphanalia. Between gun nuts, and ATV nuts the amount of destruction to the environment is unbelievable. All gun nuts seem to have a fear of roadside signs. If you travel in the west you will see some gun nut has taken the time to shoot up just about every speed limit sign or stop sign in the west. The danger of people shooting at signs shouldl be obvious. I don't want to see guns outlawed, but I don't think anyone in their right mind needs an assault rifle, and very few people could justify a hand gun. I would feel much safer if they got the guns away from the nut cases, and they are plentiful.

How they screwed us, and themselves

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

Megan sent this to me this morning. It is a very good explanation of how Wall Street, and your local banker ruined the economy. Take the time to watch it, very well done. While our old buddy George Bush was cutting brush, this is what was going on, he didn't notice

Famous Designer takes a break on Kadizzles Boat

Jasper Littlebottom rescues stranded moutain home

Once again the strange elf appears from nowhere with her shovel to rescue the inept mountain people.

E.B Farnum is struck with diarria at a bad time

Jasper Littlebottom prepares hot tub for Lord Kadizzle

Stranded high in the mountians food began to run short at the Snoocher Bears House. Jasper Littlebottom put the hot tub on the highest setting and suggested Lord Kadizzle get in. The soak was great, but it did seem strange when Littlebottom started putting onions, and carrots in with his Lordship. The seasoning was the clue that something was amiss. With the dinner hour approaching Kadizzle thought best to remove him self from the stew he was in.

Addicted to Deadwood

Lord Kadizzle was never much of a western fan, but Deadwood is a western like none you have seen. As Erin points out, it is done in a Shakespearean fashion. The life lessons are too many to count. Never have good and evil been juxtaposed in such a fashion.

How do you deal with your parents when they land. Erin and Fran have found the perfect solution. Give them a good HBO series and set them in front of the TV. Just as it works for little peanuts, it also works for adult hoopleheads. Last year Erin sat us down to watch Dexter for about six hours. This year it is Deadwood. If you don't enjoy this series you are hopeless. Make sure you give it a little time to get you hooked.

Pithcforks and Pistols

Read Pitchforks and Pistols in the NYT today to get some idea of the disintegration of the Republican party. If Rush Limbaugh had a twin brother that was also mentally ill, it would be Glen Beck. It is pathetic that the same people who wrecked the economy and brought us bubba Bush are doing everything to defeat the cure. The Republicans are like arsonist criticizing the fire department.

Stump a Genius takes a new spin.

Bored one day on the sailboat Lord Kadizzle and daughter Megan invented a game called "Stump a Genius" . You try to ask the other person a question they cannot answer. Today The Commander rolled out her version. She took the genius out back and said "Lets see you get those stumps out genius. So the commander and Lord Kadizzle attacked three stumps and won. There was plenty of cussing, and barking of commands, but when the dust settled the stumps lost. Only ten more to go.

The Most Amazing Rock in the World

The Kadizzles did not get to spend much time in Utah this year, but if you ever get there you must see The Wave.

A little Philosophy from Deadwood for the depressed

The Weather Window

Sunday or Monday, the little Kadizzle band will head for Hazen. It will be a trip back to the frozen North in a land heavily populated with people who voted for McCain. The trick to the trip is making it on good clear roads. A couple years ago The Commander and his Lordship had a terrifying trip home when the truck and trailer went off the interstate at over 50 mph. Ice was the culprit. By some miracle the truck went a couple hundred yards through a field and Kadizzle managed to steer it back on the road unharmed. However, Kadizzle learned a lesson. Never, ever pull a trailer on snow or ice if you can avoid it. So we will sit until the right moment, and then bust home to the arctic circle. Another favorite part of the trip is wind. This time of year insane winds come off the Rockies. When you get in the Cheyenne area it is not unusual to see tractor trailer trucks laying on their side. Last year we had to go an extra hundred miles east to avoid the wind. Interstate 25 was closed do to wind.

Our Last camping spot in Utah

Sailing on Lake Sakakawea 2009

With the lake coming up here is a little video to stir your blood

This generation's Vietnam

The current generation has been robbed blind by right wing policies that have distorted income distribution and led to the current mess. Since 1978 the working class has gone backwards by 12% in real income. Meanwhile CEO pay has gone from 147 times the line worker pay to 350 times what a working person gets. The net result is all the increase in productivity in the last thirty years has gone to the top five percent of the population. Now the economy has collapsed. This is exactly what happen during the depression of 1929.

Lord Kadizzle is amazed that most of today's young people seem to have no clue what has been done to them. For our children to dig out of the mess those with the Bush mentality have created, will be next to impossible. There is only one solution, take the money back. Until we come to grips with recovering the money that has been stolen by a select few at the top of the pyramid, the economy will never recover. The average person has to share in prosperity for the economy to work. It is that simple. Until the young get fired up like my generation did about the Vietnam War, it is hard to imagine the change coming. The right wing will continue to promote the usual scare tactics. Socialism will be the great scare word, as usual the rich will point to the poor and claim they are the problem. The usual propaganda machines will be rolled out, you can already see them. Two classics, already the health insurance lobby is out to defeat effective health care reform, and of course the coal industry, along with the oil industry are both fighting any attempt to use energy efficiently.

Meanwhile the young don't keep up with the scam that is going on. Sports, and celebraties keep the young thinking in la la land. The economy is going to hit the young soon. Those living on the larges of their parents will soon hit the brick wall of reality. College graduates will find there are no good jobs. The awakening cannot be that far off. One piece of good news is the support Obama had from the young, however it is very disturbing to see the number of young who have caught the right wing fever from their parents. As the young see it is next to impossible for them to get ahead under the right wing trickle down mantra, they will awaken, and when they do let the revolution begin.

How you get cheated

This salary chart for Blue Cross clearly shows how the middle class gets cheated. Look at the raises these guys get. While inflation bubbles along at 3 percent, these hoopleheads always get raises that outstrip inflation. Meanwhile working people just get inflation raises if they are lucky. CEO's in 1978 got about 147 times what the working man did. Now, they average 350 times what the average worker gets. Real wages for people in the middle class have declined by twelve percent since 1978. The chart says it all. How is it that they are becoming so much more productive while you are making no real improvements? The simple answer is they are taking more and more, that is why we are in the current economic mess. Now some Republican will tell you this is all for your own good, but are you really that stupid. It is just like giving some televangelist money, and thinking it is the right thing to do. How could any young person support the philosophy of a party that engineers this kind of greed for the people on the top and ignores the person in the middle doing all the work?