Hopeless politics

Last night Kadizzle attended a dinner honoring Dorgan. Dorgan seems like he just gave up. You could just see somehow that he felt the mess in the Capital is hopeless. Basically he is a good man fighting for the common people. As Kadizzle sat there bored to death with the typical political nonsense he recalled once when he called Dorgan. Cannot even remember what the call was about. Kadizzle expected to get some secretary in an office that would give him the brush off. Instead Dorgan took Kadizzles call in the hallway of the Senate. Dorgan spoke as long as he could and said he had to leave for a vote. Kadizzle has always been amazed in North Dakota that when you want to get hold of a person in government you can. Years ago Kadizzle had a problem with a car dealer in Bismarck. Kadizzle called the attorney general. The AG took the call said he would take care of the problem, and he did. Kadizzle was new to North Dakota and never thought such a thing was possible.

Sadly our government has been brought to a standstill by Republicans that can only say no. Like little stubborn children they just say no. To get elected all they have to do is play one of their magic cards, guns, gays, abortion, or god. If a brick took the Republican stand on guns, gays, god, and abortion the brick could win office forever in North Dakota. Currently we have enough bricks in North Dakota to build a wall that will stop progress forever. Dorgan is right to feel hopeless.

Chaos in the Universe

Disorder drives some people nuts, Lord Kadizzle has a high tolerance for disorder. On the other hand The Commander demands things pretty orderly. Thinking about this Kadizzle remembered an old song he once heard. The exact words to the song will not come back, but the jest of the story was something like this. A neighbor lady came over to another woman who was in her yard and complained about the fact that the woman's husband was out in the yard every day acting like a chicken. The neighbor asked the old hill billy woman if it bothered her that every day her husband walked around in the yard flapped his arms like a chicken and cackled. The old hill billy lady said "No it don't bother me, and besides we can use the eggs". Life is what you make it. Look on the bright side.

God loved the Chiggers

Mark Twain was probably one of the best writers that ever lived. He hated flies. One book he wrote that never was published in his life time was "Letters from the Earth". Mark Twain was not religious in fact he was very anti religious. In order to sell his works his family tried to cloak this as best they could. In "Letters from the Earth" Twain had a lot of fun at the Bible's expense. One very entertaining story he wrote was about how Noah had to get everything on the arch. After Noah had been at sea for six weeks Noah realized he had no flies. Noah had to turn the ship around and get two flies. Twain was always infuriated with flies and could not understand why Noah brought them. Lately Kadizzle and other sailors have been the victims of chiggers. These little bugs are common to the south, but with global warming now seem to be making good homes in North Dakota. If you ever had them you know they are worse than flies. Like Mark Twain Kadizzle wonders what Noah was thinking when he herded two chiggers up the gang plank. Did Noah have any clue what he was doing. This is a picture of one of his crew members after they were bitten by the chiggers.

Kadizzle Threatened with death

As usual The Commander woke up like a nuclear power plant coming online. She said things were going to happen fast. It was going to be a hot day and The Commander wante the grass cut while it was cool. Kadizzle was disqualified for cutting the grass this year. Apparently his methods were lacking. However, Kadizzle is the clipping boy, and is allowed to refill the mower with gas. Things were looking good. Kadizzle went to the gas station got gas as instructed, did the dishes as instructed, placed the wheelbarrow in the proper position as instructed, put the pickup truck in the loading position as instructed. Things were going good until Kadizzle went to get the mail. Kadizzle got caught in a little BS session at City Hall. Sure enough his cell phone rang and the jig was up. In a furious voice The Commander informed Kadizzle the death penalty would be applied if he did not get home forthwith and empty the grass clippings from the wheelbarrow into the pickup. To cover his posterior when he got home Kadizzle made The Commander a nice glass of ice water. Apparently there will be a court marshall hearing later today. Hopefully Kadizzle can throw himself on the mercy of the court. According to The Commander death by stabbing is the normal punishment for failure to empty the wheelbarrow as scheduled. Hopefully it will be a long knife, if she uses the pearing knife it may take multiple blows to go through all this fat. To appease The Commander Kadizzle has purchased a new mower shown above.

The Fox is in the Hen House

Captain Kit runs the marina where poor old Kadizzle has to get the sewage pumped out of his boat. Lately Captain Kit has not been taking his medication as required. He fired the nice kid that worked at the dock and has been in a foul mood. Kadizzle and Kit have been in a kerfuffle over one of Kadizzles rants to the Bismarck Tribune. The mean old Captain has made it clear that Kadizzle's droppings are no longer welcome at his sewage pump. Last week Kadizzle let it be known among the fleet that the code phrase to indicate Kit is working the docks is "The Fox is in the Hen house". If a reasonable person is working the docks one should announce on the radio " The Chickens are laying eggs". Last week as luck would have it Kadizzle was first to the pump out station and announced "The Chickens are laying eggs". The Fox was in the Hen House yesterday, and things did not look good. As Kadizzle pulled in to get his sewage pumped a storm was brewing in the southeast. On the dock a storm was brewing between Kit's ears. The mere site of Kadizzle's ship was driving him wild. Kadizzle circled the good ship Sovereign in front of the docks while a power boat struggled to take on fuel. When it looked as if Kadizzle could leave Kit the best of all possible shipments, Kit emerged from the Hen house with a face bright red with anger and yelled to the Sovereign " The pump is broken, I can't pump you out". What a terrible stroke of luck for Kadizzle. The good ship "Gone with the Wind " had just pumped out, but mechanical devils struck. This luck has hit Kadizzle before. Kit has a pump unlike any most people have encountered. The pump heals itself. After Kadizzle leaves it is not unusual for the pump to heal and then next ship gets pumped out. Kadizzle has a hand pump that would allow him to pump the sewage into buckets. Captain Kadizzle thought about pumping the sewage into buckets and leaving it on Kit's dock. It would be fun to say to Kit "I'll just leave my sewage here, when you get the pump fixed pump it out, and I'll come back for the buckets". Of course on leaving it would be nice to flip him a fifty cent piece.

Sovereign successfully attacked several ships.

Sailing is certainly easier than cleaning the boat. After several harsh hours obeying The Commander as the boat was cleaned it was time to have some fun. As we cleaned the boat Jayden watched, questioned, and commented. Jayden is the grandson visiting his grandparents on the neighboring houseboat. Jayden has sailed with us before, and he began to hint it would be nice to go out for a sail. The wind was just right and it did not take a lot to push Kadizzle over the edge. Over the protest of The Commander Lord Kadizzle unleashed the good ship and we took off in search of treasure. Out in the big water we spotted two ships. One looked heavily laden with goods. Our maneuvers were ill considered and poorly timed and the the ship managed to make the Evil Capetian Kits port before we could unleash our cannons. However, the swashbuckling Jayden soon spotted a smaller prize. Jayden had been in the crows nest looking for booty when he spotted the other ship. The cannons were readied on the starboard side. Kadizzle had instructed Jayden to act friendly so as not to give away our evil intent. As the other ship neared Jayden waved and smiled. It worked the cannons were fired and the ship slowly sunk as we unloaded the booty. In retrospect now Kadizzle recalls how this adventure started. Jayden was playing with the winches on the boat. Kadizzle tried to explain to him how they worked, but realized it would be easier to show him under sail. Jayden picked it up pretty quickly once underway. More young people need to study the profession of piracy first hand, and spend less time in front of the computer. With piracy becoming more popular these days off the northwest coast of Africa it could be a good career.

The Lord Works in Strange Ways

Surely the Lord does work in strange ways. It took Lord Kadizzle three years with the help of many to build the Pocket Park on Main Street in Hazen. Tonight a local family gave an excellent musical performance there which was mainly Christian music. The crowd was overflowing into the ally and it brought great joy to Lord Kadizzle's heart to see the park so well used. Listening to the wonderful performance Kadizzle could not but wonder about the mischievousness of the Lord. At best Kadizzle is an agnostic, and at worst an orthodox atheist. Never would Kadizzle have dreamed he would build the biggest Christian music venue in Hazen. It is a dream come true to see so many people enjoy a summer evening in what was once an abandoned lot with weeds knee high. When I die I am sure someone will have my fat rendered into bio diesel for a church bus. Kadizzle will get to heaven even if it is through an exhaust pipe.

The Same Story

It would be nice if Kadizzle was not as guilty as everyone else, but the same stories get told over and over. As we get older the nice thing is we all lose our memories. So if we are lucky we forgot the last time Willy told us about the time he caught a fish that had swallowed a cigarette lighter and when he cut it open the lighter was still burning. Usually the lapse between when you tell the same person the same story is a couple of months or a year, but when you reach a certain age you may only be able to go an hour or two. Wives are the ones who really suffer in this story game. The poor commander has heard Kadizzles stories so many times she often puts a halt to them right out of the gate. This saves someone the tragedy of hearing the whole mess over. People tell stories because our society does not like issues of substance to be debated in public. If you take religion and politics off the table there is not much left but to tell the same stories over and over. People can talk about books, movies, or sports, but this can be hard on the illiterate like Kadizzle. One technique Kadizzle has adopted as a listener to a repeat tale is to see how well the current version matches last years. If you listen closely the location often changes and so do many of the key details. So you are not always listening to the same story, but often a new and improved version. The most fun is to listen to a story when you were one of the characters. Since you were there you have your own version of what happened. The fun part is comparing your reality with the story tellers reality. So if you are bored hearing the same story over test your memory while you listen to how Uncle Willy had an old dog that could sing.

Fight the Rats and save hundreds of dollars

For over an hour Kadizzle fought on the phone today against the health care rats at Blue Cross and finally won. Blue Cross refused to pay for a prescription because it was not prior approved. The prescription was for an emergency. Finally one of the dunderheads higher up the food chain at Blue Cross realized you cannot prior approve an emergency. One thing Kadizzle has realized in life is that when you deal with corporate American you have to just keep going up the food chain until you reach someone who can make an intelligent decision. Kadizzle has done this hundreds of times. The medical system in the United States is terrible and the most overpriced in the world. You will not understand this until you have to pay for it. I can get Benicar in Canada for $98. In Hazen it is $235. I hate Blue Cross, The crooked American drug companies and the right wing Hoopleheads that made sure we did not have the same health care most advanced countries do. For lack of health insurance my daughter just paid thousands for medications that would have been covered in any advanced country but this one. My daughter is not a welfare cheat. She works hard and has been trying to start her own business. In the United States we bankrupt young people so the rich don't have to pay taxes. It is wonderful. Drill baby drill.

Bear Den Bay on the Week Long Sail

Lake Sakakawea has to be the best sailing in the country.

The Good Ship Returns

After a ten day search we never found the Northwest passage, but we had fun trying.

"I said Hello God Damn it".

My old neighbor who recently passed away used to have little patience for the sour old goats that roam the streets of Hazen. Once Pat told me about how he said "Good morning" to one of the old goats, and the goat just ignored him. Pat said loudly to the old sour goat "I said Hellow god damn it". This morning Kadizzle got up early to go to the grocery store. One cashier there is always as sour and unfriendly as can be. When the old hag came over to unlock the door she was devoid of any kind of humanity. She had a scoul on her face like she regretted the sun coming up. Kadizzle thought of his old buddy Pat and could barely hold back the " I said Hello God Damn it" quote.

Sailing West to Seek Riches

Later today tall ships will depart one at a time to head west. Seeking adventure and riches the sailboats will search out new lands. For a week members of the fleet have been stocking the ships with wine, cheese, and all the other essentials for a long journey. For ten days six to ten boats will make their way west into a barely inhabited land of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and other tribes. Tonight the fleet will gather in Birthold Bay. The lake is so high the sacred fire pit is almost underwater. Around the fire offerings will be made to the gods of wind and rain for a safe journey. Rumor is the west holds vast quantities of riches. Since oil has been discovered in the Baken Shale formation on the far western end of the lake people have been seeking a sea route to Williston. There could be a Northwest Passage. The Indians along the route have devised a clever new way to defeat the white man coming by water. At Newtown the tribes have a trap. When the white man stops for supplies he will be lured into a casino. At the casino he will be plied with drink. This is a trick the Indians have reversed on the unsuspecting whites. Once the sailors are lubricated it is a simple matter to empty their pockets with the electronic thieves. These are the same Indians that confused Columbus they know what they are doing.

The Missouri River splits into the Little Missouri. No doubt the fleet will get confused and take the wrong branch. With the high water ships can sail for two days down the Little Missouri. Not a soul can be seen down that vast canyon. The fleet will have to rely on rudimentary instruments of navigation such as GPS, Laptop computers, and Cell phones. Always knowing were they are withing three feet and with complete maps of the bottom of the lake navigation will be difficult and treacherous. Like Columbus the fleet will be threatened with weather. Radar weather broadcast onto cell phones will only give them a marginal seven day advance notice of what the wind gods will do. The fleet will only be able to see storms sixty miles away. It will be easy to see what early explorers were up against.

Facing the loneliness of the long voyage sailors will be forced to watch a flat screen TV on rainy nights deep in the heart of Indian country. It will be a long difficult journey. If the ice gives out and the beer gets warm no doubt many will parish. If we make it back we can spread the news of the riches of the far west where wealth is pumped from the ground, where black gold has replaced yellow gold, and the land is overrun with those seeking riches.

Act Like Nothings Wrong

If you have not tried the internet music service Pandora, you should. It is free. Pandora allows you to pick the kind of music you like. Once you tell it a song you like it figures out what else you will like. Kadizzle found a song called "Act like nothing's wrong". The lyrics to the song are wonderful. There is some truth in the saying. Growing up as a kid Kadizzle became a good pool player because his grandfather had a nice old fashioned pool table in his attic. The pool balls started to get some wear and needed to be replaced. One day Kadizzle was in downtown Wheeling, West Virginia with one of the local hooligans. In a furniture store that happened to sell pool balls, and pool tables the kid decided to acquire a new set of pool balls for my grandfathers pool table. This was not going to be a cash transaction. The junior psychopath stuffed the box containing the pool balls under his jacket and proceeded to walk out the front door of the store. Kadizzle was unaware that nut case had undertaken this venture and was amazed when pool balls started dropping out of his jacket as he left the store. The pool balls rolled in every direction. Kadizzle stood in shocked amazement as this drama unfolded. Smitty casually started to walk around and pick up the pool balls. A store clerk saw what had happened and came over and helped Smitty pick up the pool balls and put them back in the box. It never occurred to the clerk that psycho had stolen the pool balls. After the balls were repackaged Smitty thanked the clerk and walked out the door with the package of pool balls in plain site. The moral of the story is "Act like nothing's wrong".

The Staff at the Mental Instituition

As most of you know poor old Lord Kadizzle has been confined to a mental health facility at the end of 7th Street in Hazen. The chances for recovery from terminal laziness are slim. It may be part of the treatment program, but all of the staff at Lazy Acres home for the Terminally Lazy is hyperactive. Perhaps the theory is that it will wear off. Do they come by it naturally or are they getting into the stimulants? All of the staff are bossy. The Commander is constantly barking out orders. Rumor among the inmates is that The Commander was once a Marine Drill Instructor. Jasper Little Bottom is not much better. Of course Shavanda is also curt and to the point. Winky is probably the nicest. Winky will sometimes ask nicely. Let me give you an example of this gang. If poor old Kadizzle gets up to go out the door Jasper Littlebottom in her calf high gardening boots will yell "Close the door!". Jasper will yell this before you have even half way opened the door. Shavanda will always ask you "What are you doing?". If Shavanda sees you taking a glass out of the cabinet she will quickly yell "What are you doing?". Most people would assume you were going to get a glass of water. Time at the nursing home runs at the speed of light. If all of a sudden the music comes up at a loud volume on the computer, Shavanda will yell "Turn that down", as if you did not notice the music was shaking the house. When they programed the staff at the nursing home they set the clock speed way to high. The Commander thinks you can walk form the bedroom and by the time you get to the kitchen the water for coffee will be boiling. Everything happens quickly in the world of Jasper Littlebottom. Ice melts at twice the speed it does anywhere else. Things in the world of the staff warm up and cool down much quicker than anywhere else on Earth. Disease is also rampant in the facility. If you ever touch a chicken Shavanda will make you wash your hands withing seconds. One nice thing about Jasper Littlebottom when she is on duty is that Jasper thinks she is the grounds keeper. This means that Jasper will spend hours fighting the weeds and talking to the green beans. However, when Jasper needs help out in the crops, you better be there quick. The way Jasper will order a glass of water, you would think it was the snappy Old Commander. Shavanda loves to burn your eyes out. You know how nice it is to just about be asleep and headed toward dream land. Shavanda somehow knows when you are close to this state. Shavanda first turns on the hall light, then she pops open the bedroom door and quickly turns on every light in the room. Your eyes pop out of your head, and what was a nice rest turns into a nuclear light show. This is the health facilities version of shock treatment. Got to go now. Jasper is out spraying weeds if Jasper comes in and finds Kadizzle has not done the dishes all hell will break loose, and Kadizzle will be reported to The Commander. This could result in an attack from Shavanda when nap time comes this afternoon.

End Turning, and Colored Underwear

The Kadizzles had a wonderful meal with our camping buddies last night. Ruth mentioned that they learned a few tips from the Kadizzles. One was using colored underwear for the men. Colored underwear stays cleaner longer, or at least it seems like it. Now the real secret with good underwear management is end turning. Kadizzle used to be an old surface coal miner. On the draglines that uncovered the coal you had to get the maximum use out of the cables that manipulated the bucket. To do so you periodically took the cables off and turned them around. It was like rotating tires on a car. With underwear the rotation is like this for maximum wear. You have four good days if you play your cards right. First rotation is inside out, and the second is front to back. Best only to use these procedures during a severe underwear shortage. Do not attempt this while dating. Stay tuned for more camping tips.

Jasper Littlebottom and the Rabbit wars

Yesterday Lord Kadizzle made the trek to the nursery in Beulah. There our coffers were emptied to pay for more plants. Jasper Littlebottom has the yard looking in a glorious state. However, Lord Kadizzle has had to move the date of his death up considerably because paying for the plants has depleted our retirement fund. The other day Jasper, A.K.A. Elmer Fudd borrowed the neighbors BB gun and went after the rabbit gang in our garden. Kadizzle found it cruel that Jasper would shoot a poor little rabbit in the head with a BB gun. The gun merely stunned the rabbit, and Jasper bonked him to death. It made Kadizzle realize what could happen if Kadizzle did not do the dishes.

This morning Jasper came in holding a flower from one of the expensive plants we bought yesterday. Bugs Bunny had chewed the stem and just let the luxurious flower drop to the ground. Kadizzle has changed his view on rabbits. Now they will be subjected to drone strikes, and surges, until these garden terrorist are wiped out. The Kadizzle clan will be searching the internet for rabbit recipes. If we find their stonghold we may have to invade a foreign yard to wipe out this threat to our well being. Hopefully the neighbors will not mind if we set their yard on fire to kill the rabbits. They should be able to understand our situation.

May Day, May Day

The other day Lord Kadizzle thought he would have to call the May Day alert on the good ship Sovereign. As the ship charged into the bay under a strong wind the Kadizzle's phone rang. Ruth said the boat Kadizzle had just passed had the captain fall overboard. Roger must have been at their cabin watching with his binoculars. The Sovereign spun about and headed back to Rocky's boat. As we approached Kadizzle thought it might be best to call some other boats if someone was in peril. After a minute or so it looked as though Rocky was at the helm of the boat. Kadizzle decided to get closer before he made a distress call on the VHF radio. When the good ship got along side Rocky it turned out the exercise was all about a dog that had fallen overboard. Apparently Rocky was leaning way over the side when Rodger saw him from the shore. His wife was holding his legs as he went for the dog. From Rodgers perspective it appeared worse than it was. All is well that ends well.

Summer is flying by

The good ship is in tip top shape with a new stove, and fancy new drawers, but getting out for an overnight sail has seemed impossible. With Erin and her family home the Kadizzles have been busy playing the grandparent game. Today they go back to the mountains and life will settle down.

Scottish Purple Bumble Bee

Sailing the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Most of the best people Lord Kadizzle ever met were sailors. A lot of people perceive sailors as people with money getting blown around at their leisure on massive yachts. The reality with most of the sailors Kadizzle has known is different, people with a passion struggling to make payments for what they enjoy. When you sail with people you get to know every aspect of them. You learn what they do in a crises, you learn how they relax, you learn every story they know. You cannot sail with another couple and not soon know how they relate. Every couple has their own style. Although the men may play the role, you soon find the real captain usually is the one with less testosterone. The women decide when the spinnaker goes up, the boat goes out, and if there will be any dinner.

In all the years Kadizzle has sailed he can honestly say he only met one sailor that never became a good friend. Kadizzle started his career as an underground coal miner. One of the first things you learned in coal mining was to get along. You never knew who the person would be that would save your ass when the chips were down. Sailing is the same way. When the day comes you are sinking, do you want to call your worst enemy to come back and save you? So sailing is about friendships, and friendships are about forgiveness. If you can excuse me for puking on your boat and telling the same story ten times, maybe I can forget how you rammed my new paint job and put a six foot scratch on the side of the boat. Usually it all works out, and there is nothing a campfire and a glass of wine cannot solve. Everyone does things they wish they had not. Everyone says things they wish they had not.

There is no perfect couple. No matter how hard you try, someday every sailor is going to blow up and say to his loved one " you blanking idiot, what in the hell are you doing", or some other quaint phrase of love. We are all human, and fools to think we can overcome it. Sailors that curse and vent are still sailing. The ones that bottled it all up exploded long ago.

One song Kadizzle always liked has the verse "Life is like a merry go round, sometimes your up and sometimes your down". Sailing mimics life. Sometimes the wind is perfect, sometimes there is no wind, and sometimes the wind will knock your socks off. A merry go round that did not go up and down would not be much fun.

Kadizzle's Hill Billy heritage

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Gardner Extrodinair Jasper Littelbottom

Who You Can Meet Sailing

Ruth sent us this picture of a rattle snake killed on Lake Sakakawea. Click on this picture to enlarge it. It looks like the biggest rattle snake ever seen. I would be more worried about it eating you than the venom.

God doesn't like nicknames

Lord Kadizzle is terrible for giving people nicknames. Today a cute little Jehovah's Witness girl showed up in my driveway. Being the terrible sinner I am she got the Kadizzle religion lecture. One thing that has struck Kadizzle as strange are some of the silly rules God has. The little lady told me you must call God by his correct name. She was amazed when I told her I knew it was Yahweh. God is just his nickname according to the Jehovah's gang. If you don't get it right, you don't get in. This was part of my lecture. Kadizzle cannot tolerate a petty God, Yahweh or whatever. It seems very contrite to send someone to hell because they call you by your nick name. People often call me Quinn, as if it were my first name. I don't mind a bit, but I would surely not say "You will go to hell for that". So if you do get to heaven be sure to say "Hello Yahweh". Now, it just occurred to me why the guy I saw in the parking lot in Page Arizona was so mad at me. He was dressed like Jesus, and for all intents and purposes that is who he looked like since he even had a beard. I said to him "How is every thing going today Jesus". He was pissed and just scowled at me. Now, if I had called him Yahweh he probably would have said "Fine my son, and welcome to Page Arizona, this is a close to heave as you will ever get".

Farting Through Silk

Lord Kadizzle had the good fortune to go to High School with some nice black kids. One expression Author Little taught Kadizzle was "Farting through silk". Apparently the black kids put a premium on a good pair of silk underwear. Today the underwear drawer gave out. The last pair was as near to silk as Kadizzle will ever get. My hunting buddy Spindly Riddle accidentally left a pair of premium undies on a hunting trip. Spindly ran a very high class clothing store, and of course catered to those who could afford to fart through silk. So tonight if the winds are favorable his Lordship will be enjoying a pleasure confined to a few.

No wind to power the boat but plenty for this

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The old saying is "God works in strange ways". On the way back from Heaven Bay we had very little wind to power the boat, but up above us the wind was being used.

Summer Sailstice

Sailboats all over the United States will be gathering tonight to celebrate Summer Sailstice. As the Earth leans as far to the south as it can, the boats will gather for a good time at Berthold Bay. Around the campfire songs will be sung, glasses will be emptied, and sailors will tell the same lies over and over. In the morning people will slowly crawl out of the ships moored side by side and greet the day. Pancakes will be flipped, coffee will be brewed, and another day of sailing will begin. Perhaps the fleet will go on to Heaven bay. Maybe someone will greet the first rattlesnake of the season. The lake is as high as it has been in many years. The boats can get back into secret places they have not been in a long time. The sailing will be good, and so will the company.

Garage Sale, or Garbage Sale?

Tax Bullshit

Remember the old days when a mother could stay home and raise kids if she wanted to? What happened? A man named Ronald Reagan thought the rich should not be taxed. The gipper got underway the current mess where the rich no longer pay their share of taxes. Reagan called it trickle down. He should have called it "Piss on the poor". From 1954 until 1978 the middle class got the biggest share of the pie they ever did in our country. Since the Republican pigs quit taxing the rich this has all changed. Now the rich get more of the national wealth than they ever have. The top one percent of our earners get 17% of the take. Real wages for working people have gone backwards. Most people don't take the time to find out what happened. Instead they prefer to listen to some propaganda machine like Fox News. For all the bitching you would think taxes have gone up. People are now paying the lowest tax rate since 1950. The biggest beneficiaries are the rich. George Bush had the first war in history where the rich got tax breaks. Click on this sentence and read the article that appears to see what really happened, or just continue to live in right wing fantasy land. Real wages for working people have gone backwards, meanwhile the pay for CEO's has gone from 147 times what a line worker makes to 500 times what a line worker gets. The taxes on the CEO have gone down, and the tax on the working person up, but that is not the picture the right wing paints.

Praise the Lord, Thank You Jeeeeesus

Lord Kadizzle's aspiring fashion designer called yesterday with good news. Megan has been struggling with her business for a long time. Starting a business in a downturn is tough. However, her work did not go unnoticed. Urban Outfitters was courting her, but did not act quick enough. Yesterday Macy's offered Megan a job assisting a designer that will create a new line of clothing for them. Megan and her boss will be the team that gets it done. For Kadizzle the economic security, and health care will be a blessing for Megan, and a burden off the Kadizzle treasury. With the job situation in this country in the worst mess since the depression finding any job is a miracle. Everyone go to Macy's and buy baby buy. Lord Kadizzle posses above in an outfit Megan designed just for him.

More Medical Adventures.

Kadizzle is turning old and falling apart quickly. After the recent episode with the gleet, Kadizzle thought life would be good for awhile. Wrong. Yesterday Kadizzle was convinced a tooth demon had infested one of his molars. The pain was unbearable so a trip to the dentist was in order. It looked like a root canal was staring the carcass in the face. The dentist could find nothing wrong, and suggested it might be a sinus problem. Awakening to unbearable pain his lordship had to get a CAT Scan. It turned out to be acute sinus infection. Kadizzle never thought the sinus could rival the old gleet for pain, but the sinus won. A needle jabbed in Kadizzles ass with some antibiotic did miracles. Now things are looking up and perhaps this body can survive a pain free weekend of sailing.

The Nature of the Universe

The Commander demanded that the alcohol stove be replaced on the boat. So Kadizzle set out to do it, thinking it was a simple inexpensive matter. Installing propane safely on a sailboat is neither simple, nor inexpensive. Now, hundreds of dollars later, with completion no where in sight, Kadizzle realizes installing the stove correctly may be impossible without major modification to the boat. To correctly install propane on a boat the propane cylinder must be in a container. The container must be air tight, and drain by gravity to outside atmosphere. This is where the dilemma starts. It turns out there is no where on the boat to store the propane tank high enough. In order to create such a propane locker a major fiberglass boat rebuilding would be necessary. As somewhat of an alternative Kadizzle has ordered a Propane detector. Hopefully shortly before the explosion there will be an alarm sound. The alarm will give all on board a chance to repent and exchange final words. This all proves Kadizzles theory involving the law of entanglement. Things will naturally turn out in a manner you did not expect. If you want to see how the law of entanglement works, take three pieces of anything like twine, rope, or extension cord and drop them in a bucket or drawer. Without human intervention they will come out hopelessly entangled. The law of entanglement dictates that anything that can turn out wrong generally will. Nature has taken advantage of this law. Seed pods are the classic case. Many seeds are spread by seed pods that get caught on everything. Everyone has come home from a hike in the fall full of burrs, or had it happen to the dog. It works flawlessly.

Simple mindedness permeats our little town.

As Kadizzle wrote about earlier fighting over what time it is in our little neck of the world is a major issue. Half the people here work on central time and half the people work on Mountain time. Total nonsense. Today an old goat told me about the woman who reported that her neighbor got up and it was dark. The woman was complaining that this could happen to anyone. Apparently the complaining woman lives on mountain time. According to the old lady her neighbor lives on Central Time. The neighbor got up to feed his cattle and it was dark outside. This tragedy could have been prevented if the neighbor had been living on Mountain Time. Another close call occurred further west. The Town of Dickinson was considering switching to Central Time. A local radio station was discussing the issue when they received a call from an old lady practically crying. The old lady said " We are in a drought, the crops are burning up, and you want to add another hour of daylight?". Sometimes Kadizzle wonders how Glenn Beck and Rush can fool anyone, but all you have to do is turn on the radio here and find out.

That's Just what you do.

Yesterday old Kadizzle went to a meeting with the local Democrats to see if we could elect someone with a pulse in our area. Unfortunately Kadizzle lives in the land of Guns, Gays, and God. The people here don't care if anything ever goes forward. You just vote for the same people over and over. Not because they do anything, not because they have a brain, but because that is just what you do. Currently our district is represented by the same brain dead, do nothing people that just say they are members of the NRA, they love Jesus, and hate gays. What a wonderfully simple way to live. So nothing ever happens here we just get the same old, same old.

A sinking feeling on the good ship

Yesterday the good ship Sovereign went in the water. After working hard all day Kadizzle finally sat down to rest in the boat. The sound of trickling water was coming from somewhere. At first it seemed like the normal sound of waves hitting the boat at dock, but something was not right. Kadizzle got up and quickly noticed water was up to one part of the floor. A quick look in the engine compartment revealed the boat was sinking. The fresh water strainer for the wash down hose had frozen and broken over the winter. After shutting of the through hull everything was under control. The bilge pump did the rest and back to nap time. However, had Kadizzle been caught away from the boat for a little bullshit session, it may have turned out different. The saving grace where our boat is docked is the water level. Under the keel is usually only six inches to a foot of water, so the boat can only sink about a foot or so. Good design for an idiot proof slip.

Military won't fight mosquitos

Kadizzle was struck by a headline in the Bismarck Fox Tribune today. "Military will not fight mosquitoes". Guess what, it is the Air Force that refused to join the fight. Now these guys got jets, drones, and aircraft carriers, yet they refuse to fight mosquitoes. What has the country come to? Perhaps the Air Force does not think mosquitoes are a national threat. With Obama in office this was bound to happen. Bush demanded the Air Force attack Iraq. So what if he was wrong. Now we have a president who will not attack mosquitoes in Williston. This is surely a sign Obama has forsaken our right wing state. Let me use the Glenn Beck Chalkboard on this one. North Dakota did not vote for Obama. North Dakota ask Air Force to attack Mosquitoes. Obama refuses. North Dakota gets eaten by mosquitoes. You think I am making this up? Yesterday on the way back from Denver The Commander and Lord Kadizzle were listening to Fox radio. Hanity was explaining how the liberals and Muslims are out to destroy our country. Obamas refusal to send the Air Force to Williston is a sure sign of this vicious attack. This summer when Kadizzle is bitten by a misquito he will know Al Qeada is behind it. I think the Qeada's live in Beulah. I never met Al, but his wife works at the Cenex.

Make Water Run Uphill

With a wonderful day and not in the mood to do anything productive Kadizzle decided to make a little fountain out by the hammock in Erin's and Fran's front yard. So up the hill with three pieces of hose and a funnel and one flower pot later here it is.

Fox News and God discuss merger

The wave of stupidity sweeping the country is like nothing Kadizzle has ever experienced. Last night Kadizzle watched Fox's premier clown, Glenn Beck. The man is totally insane, and now invoking God in all his commentary. Glenn was explaining how God does not help groups, just individuals. Glenn is trying to explain that God is against social justice. Traveling on a plane is dangerous, because you are in a group, and God doesn't help groups. You see all groups lead to socialism, and of course that leads to communism, and then worst of all liberalism.

The ability of this nit wit to take good and turn it into evil is beyond comprehension. We all know how he turned empathy into a bad thing. Now "social justice" is a bad thing. Somehow all good is now evil in the Fox mind set. Obama was evil because he tried to help the poor and disadvantaged as a community organizer. Remember people that organize are evil, can you say "Union". Fox and the clown have turned the world upside down. Now any attempt to help people leads to Nazi Germany. Don't ask me how, but Kadizzle will try to give you the Fox spin. You see if you help people you might decide to tax the rich in order to do it. This is the greatest evil of all, asking wealthy people to pay taxes. Of course this leads to Nazism.

Now Newt realizes Glenn has tapped a whole new vein of simple mindedness, so Newt is jumping on the Nazi wagon. Newt is openly calling Obama the worst thing since Nazi Germany. Glenn is mining the Fundy vein. Glenn gave the commencement speech at Liberty Baptist University. Here we go again the right wing is going to tap into the religious nuts again. Kadizzle used to wonder how people fell for McCathy, Hitler, and all the other crazies, but Glenn Beck shows there is still a big market for paranoid crazy talk. The simple minded love to be scared. The Hoopleheads are just like little kids, they love being scared. Tell a Hooplehead someone is going to take their gun, or elect a black president and they shake. The Hooples are totally confused by a black intelligent president. They can understand a white idiot, but a black man that speaks eloquently and talks in understandable English? What is this all about. For the Hooples it is like the confusion they experience at a magic show. They know something happened, but they just are baffled.

Conversation at Bubba's Beauty Salon

As Bubba cut Kadizzles hair she mentioned the inexperienced flight attendant that she flew into Denver with. The weather was terrible and tornadoes were in the area. The flight had to circle Denver for an hour before it could sneak in. As the plane bounced closer to the runway, the flight attendant announced "If there is an emergency landing don't take anything with you during the evacuation". Bubba said that really made her feel good. While Bubba trimmed up Kadizzle, he thought he had to out do her story, so he related the time he was in a rough landing. Kadizzle told Bubba how the flight attendant handed out magic markers and told everyone to label their body parts with their name. At this point Bubba said "Did they tell you to label your fingers, or did they say start with the biggest pieces first?". That blasted Bubba she can always get one up on you at her hair salon.

Terrorist Humming Bird attacks Bee Bumble Bee

Chichi was sitting in the hot tub yesterday with her neon pink swim suit when Humming Bird Alawi swooped right within inches of her. Although Chichi was terrified she regrouped and went out this morning with Sylvie to watch the little terrorist drink the nectar.

The little Princes

Kadizzle has always liked children. Sylvie the new granddaughter is providing endless entertainment as we babysit for Erin off for Paris in the Springtime with Fran. Sylvie's greatest talent is diverting The Commander. Kadizzle is free to browse magazines, surf the net, take a snore nap, and all the other pleasantries in life. Of course there is a downside. Every bright colored fribble for sale at the Dollar Store now has the potential to be part of the decoration in Sylvie's room. As if shopping were not a sufficient evil, adding one more little person who must have everything put the budget over the top. The Commander is getting the organic bug up her exhaust. This means that all food for Sylvie will now cost twice as much, and it looks like she must have organic grandparents to go with it.

Sara Palin says your not a real American

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Requiem for a gleet

This morning Kadizzle gave birth to a wonderful gleet. There is debate if passing a gleet is more painful than having a baby. Babies rarely take more than a day. This young gleet took almost a month. Kadizzle has decided to name him Sate, after his namesake Satan. Thank the lord Sate was a normal delivery and not a kidney cesarean. This is Kadizzles first gleet carried to term. In the past Kadizzle has had about three either busted up with lithotripsy or through the fishing technique.

Now speculation abounds as to if a gleet fairy exist. Since children can put a tooth under a pillow and get a quarter, Kadizzle figures the Gleet Fairy will leave at least $100 for a gleet.

Grandaughter Sylvie gives first Concert

After breakfast Sylvie asked Grandpa Kadizzle if he would like some music. Sylvie Suggested Beethoven's Fifth Symphony in E minor. Kadizzle thought it would be a nice interlude. Sylvie's rendition was definitely unique, and the crowd applauded until she played a encore. For the encore two guest were invited to sit on the piano.

Back in the Rockies

Jones E Bear (Erin) is going to Paris to meet up with Fran, so Kadizzle, The Commander, and Megan will hold down the fort in Evergreen. The mountain streams in front of the house are running full and making a pleasant sound. Seems like Kadizzle's gleet seems under control. Now, Kadizzle must be careful. In the Deadwood series a gleet was a kidney stone. However, when you look up a gleet there are a lot of references to syphilis. Kadizzle is not sure if the gleet has passed or is just resting on the way out the door. Now The Commander will be consumed with watching Sylvie. AAh what a blessing.

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Time for some sanity

Last night Kadizzle sat in a hearing for as long as he could take it. The local Hoopleheads have been fighting for years over what time it should be. Hoopleville is technically on Mountain Time, but about two thirds of the population lives and works on Central time. The net result in Hoopleville is you are never sure what time it is. In the old days when Kadizzle had a job the time line ran right down the middle of the bed. The Commander's side of the bed was on Mountain time, and on Kadizzles side of the bed it was central time. Each night stand had its own clock with the appropriate time. Around here we have about six types of time. We have fast time, slow time, plant time, my time, your time, Bismarck time, Hazen time, and of course anytime. If someone says come over for dinner at six you have to say, my time, your time, fast time, slow time. One would think after thirty years of this they would get it fixed, but this is a big issue. Remember how the South always referred to the Civil War as The War of Northern Aggression?". Well, around these parts the time issue is like The War of Eastern aggression. There are actually feuds that go on around here over the time issue. At the meeting last night an old goat got up and cried over his love for Mountian Time. Kadizzle knows when he is on his death bed and he looks up at his dearly beloved Commander and says "My time has come darling" The Commander will say "Fast time or slow time?". It is time to fix this nonsense, but the Hooples refuse to budge they love their time on this planet, and there is no way they are going to give up slow time. With slow time your time will come an hour later, and by God they want to live for that extra hour.

These People walk among us.

Hearing the racist remarks, and the crazy ideas implanted by Fox coming from the mouths of people in our wonderful town of Hazen makes one give pause. Everyone has had that experience where you thought someone seemed normal, and then they start telling you about the danger of the "One world order" or some other strange right wing lunacy. The other day Glenn Beck was touting how the NASA symbol, the one with the electron circling an atom, was actually the flag of Islam. No one in their right mind would believe this nonsense, but you start talking to some of the local dingers, and then you say "Oh no, there are people that believe that crap". Then you find our people in somewhat responsible positions believe the birther nonsense, and it scares you to think the supply of the paranoid insane is way higher than you ever imagined. When ever Kadizzle thinks about Nazi Germany he ask himself how did this happen? The answer seems to be there were a whole lot more simple minded susceptible Hoopleheads on the streets than anyone thought. If you ever doubt the supply of simple minded watch late night television and watch the infomercials. Someone is watching that stuff and buying all the get rich quick schemes. In the daytime they watch Fox News.

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Your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore (lyrics below)

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While digesting Reader's Digest
In the back of a dirty book store,
A plastic flag, with gum on the back,
Fell out on the floor.
Well, I picked it up and I ran outside
Slapped it on my window shield,
And if I could see old Betsy Ross
I'd tell her how good I feel.

Chorus:
But your flag decal won't get you
Into Heaven any more.
They're already overcrowded
From your dirty little war.
Now Jesus don't like killin'
No matter what the reason's for,
And your flag decal won't get you
Into Heaven any more.

Well, I went to the bank this morning
And the cashier he said to me,
"If you join the Christmas club
We'll give you ten of them flags for free."
Well, I didn't mess around a bit
I took him up on what he said.
And I stuck them stickers all over my car
And one on my wife's forehead.

Repeat Chorus:

Well, I got my window shield so filled
With flags I couldn't see.
So, I ran the car upside a curb
And right into a tree.
By the time they got a doctor down
I was already dead.
And I'll never understand why the man
Standing in the Pearly Gates said...

"But your flag decal won't get you
Into Heaven any more.
We're already overcrowded
From your dirty little war.
Now Jesus don't like killin'
No matter what the reason's for,
And your flag decal won't get you
Into Heaven any more."

Get ahead

Here is a little something someone sent me that is indisputable mathematical logic. It also made me Laugh Out Loud. This is a strictly mathematical viewpoint.....it goes like this:

What Makes 100%? What does it mean to give MORE than 100%? Ever wonder about those people who say they are giving more than 100%? We have all been to those meetings where someone wants you to give over 100%. How about achieving 103%? What makes up 100% in life?

Here's a little mathematical formula that might help you answer these questions:

If:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

is represented as:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26.

Then:

H-A-R-D-W-O-R-K
8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = 98%


and


K-N-O-W-L-E-D-G-E
11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5 = 96%

But,

A-T-T-I-T-U-D-E
1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100%

And,

B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T
2+21+12+12+19+8+9+20 = 103%

AND, look how far ass kissing will take you.

A-S-S-K-I-S-S-I-N-G
1+19+19+11+9+19+19+9+14+7 = 118%

So, one can conclude with mathematical certainty, that While Hard work and Knowledge will get you close, and Attitude will get you there, it's the Bullshit and Ass Kissing that will put you over the top.



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Reality Doesn't Matter

One thing Kadizzle loves about the right wing Hoopleheads is their ability to ignore reality. The tax rates are currently as low as they have been since 1950, yet the Tea Party bunch thinks they are being taxed too much. Just like the weapons of mass destruction lie Bush told, it was not what was true, but what you chose to believe. Fox News has made an industry out of telling people what they would like to believe. If you have a dream or a fantasy Fox can pump you up. Rush more than anyone is the king of fantasy salesman. Want to believe some silly right wing nonsense, Rush is there to help. In the old days when Kadizzle went to college you were supposed to back up what you said with something called research and facts. Those days are over.

The Gun Crazies come to Hazen

The big excitement in Hazen was the gunfight at the RV Corral. Out on the west end of town a poor fellow pulled a gun on his buddies when it looked like they might take his friend's pillow. In most places you get shot if you try to take someone's wife, but at the RV Corral pillow theft is not taken lightly. After a severe beating the gun toter was subdued and hauled to the hospital. Know one knows if the gun slinger took his pillow to the hospital or is now using it in jail. I know a lot of little kids who get attached to a blanket or pillow, but Kadizzle had no idea this could go on into adulthood. The RV Park is now considering two improvements, A gun range with targets made from pillows, and a vending machine to dispense bullets. Before Kadizzle left last year with The Commander there was some discussion about taking Kadizzle's shotgun. Now, that the danger of pillow theft is clear perhaps The Commander will let Kadizzle take the shotgun next year. However, Kadizzle knows who steals his pillow, and she is the same person who will not let him bear arms. The constitution protects everyone's right to defend their pillow, and it is plain why we need to strike down any laws that would put pillows in jeopardy. Kadizzle does have bumper stickers available that read "You will get this pillow whey you pry this gun from my cold dead hand". Although pillows are made from feathers, this is not something we should take lightly.

Kadizzle Converts Dishwasher to Stove

Kadizzle is as proud as can be. His attempt to convert a stainless steel dishwasher front into a stove top looks like a success. Even neighbor Bob admired the fine conversion. The Commander wanted to convert from alcohol to propane in the boat. The Commander said there was no reason to be burning what you could be drinking. Another major part of the project is figuring how to store propane safely on a sailboat. The propane must be kept in a special locker. Rumors on the lake are that no one will raft up with us for fear of an explosion. It is amazing that Kadizzle can create a bomb by accident when The Taliban cannot train someone in New York to do it on purpose. If the New York Bomber had let Kadizzle install a propane stove in his truck thing would have worked out for him, or at least he could have cooked a meal. The stove on the boat will look great, but now the dishwasher will look a little sad without the door on the front, but a piece of plastic and some duct tape should cure that little problem.

The Commander does the Census

To help support Kadizzle The Commander is doing the Census. The Commander ran into this woman in Pick City her current assignment.

Commander Granny

In today's paper there is a cartoon with two Goldman Sacks guys commenting on how nice it is to have the public's attention diverted to the oil spill in the gulf, and the bomb in times square. Kadizzle has been blessed with a granddaughter that serves the same function. Commander Granny now has Sylvie to keep her occupied with projects. Lately The Commander has been refurbishing the old toys our own kids had. Cabbage Patch what's her name got her stuffing washed. Bert and Ernie got to go to the dryer carnival and spin themselves. The living room is full of stuffed animals, and of course that means there is stuffed animal droppings everywhere. One problem with The Commander hunting new toys for Sylvie is that she often ends up keeping them for herself. All the birds and butterflys with moving wings now surround the garden. Another nice thing about the grandchild is the basement is getting bigger. After years of saving every old toy and little furniture for "our grand kids" the stuff is finally starting to migrate to Colorado. Erin will now see her house filled to the brim with more stuffed animals than a Chinese factory.

An Idiot I suppose

In 1976 Lord Kadizzle left Morgantown, West Virginia. Kadizzle needed a job, and The Commander said he better get one. With marriage looming Kadizzle started a new career in the coal fields of North Dakota. Stan Rodgers wrote this song about someone from Eastern Canada moving to Calgary, but Kadizzle likes the song and changed it a little to suite his circumstances. You can smell the stink of the DGC gas plant in Hazen when the wind is right. Things have worked out pretty well, but Kadizzle has always love the line in this song " and that makes me, and it is plain to see, an idiot I suppose".

I often take these late night walks when Cissie is not around
I turn my back on the house left black and make for open ground
Far out beyond the farmers fence where the highway makes no sound
I forget the stink and I always think back to that eastern town

/ D ABm G Bm / G D - A / 1st / G D DA D /

I remember back thirty six years ago, this western life I chose
And every day, the news would say some factory's going to close
Well, I could have stayed to take the dole, but I'm not one of those
I take nothing free, and that makes me an idiot, I suppose

So I bid farewell to the eastern town I never more will see
But work I must so I eat this dust and breathe refinery
Oh I miss the green and the woods and streams and I don't like cowboy clothes
But I like being free and that makes me an idiot I suppose

/ G D A D / G D Bm A / D ABm G Bm / G D DA D /

So come all you fine young fellows who've been beaten to the ground
This western life's no paradise, but it's better than lying down
Oh, the streets aren't clean, and there's nothing green, and the hills are dirty brown
But the government dole will rot your soul back there in your hometown

So bid farewell to the eastern town you never more will see
There's self-respect and a steady check in this refinery
You will miss the green and the woods and streams and the dust will fill your nose
But you'll be free, and just like me, an idiot, I suppose

Kidney stone fun with American health care

Kadizzle just read about a guy who was shot, burned, and had kidney stones. The feller said kidney stones were the worst. Kadizzle has, according to the last scan, four kidney stones. However with the wonderful health care we have in this country Kadizzle is just too cheap to have them broken up correctly. That is what the doctor recommended about four years ago. Kadizzle has health insurance, but it is Blue Cross, which has a deductible of about 2k. This is the Blue Cross that pays the executive 2 million dollar in North Dakota. I wish these stones on him. So the economical thing to do is die or pee the stones out. The last couple of days Kadizzle has been trying to give birth to some kidney stones. Women have an advantage with the equipment they use to deliver presents from inside. Although kidney stones are small, so is the delivery system. Jasper Littlebottom was skeptical that Kadizzle even had a problem until he did a demo of peeing blood. Fortunately the current episode has been fairly painless, the little boogers are just moving around cutting up the kidneys, the doctor said they were too big to come out. The episode seems to be subsiding. When Kadizzle gets motivated he will probably have to pay the six thousand dollars to have the stones broken up. In any other country it would cost about one quarter of this amount, but in our country those executives have to drive nice cars. The head of Wellpoint, one of the biggest health insurance companies in the country gets 14 million per year. Kadizzle could bust some stones with that cash. Hope that guy gets cancer of the bunghole.

Act Like Nothings Wrong, you got to listen

In a somewhat slower but undeniably similar vein is the album's ninth track. To induce a child-like innocence into this deeply jaded song, Kimbrough deploys a toy xylophone from the get-go. In the first verse, he sings about an Enron-esque corporate crook who gets caught but hopes for the best with this impossibly upbeat chorus:

"Act like nothing's wrong
Everything's just fine
Hold your head up high and act like
You don't really mind
If you're terrified like me
Of terrorists and crime
Please take my advice
And simply act like nothing's wrong."

Maybe Tom DeLay listened to this Kimbrough song before his beatific mug shot was snapped. You'll sing along, too, until you wince and realize this has been the unholy Bush scripture since 2000. But with the way the war polls are looking, the right wingers may not be atop the charts much longer. This song portrays Kimbrough's various musical and songwriting talents at their cheeky best.

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Super Scum

There are a few people who are such evil rats that they should have a special ranking. Newt Gingrich is certainly one. Rarely would Kadizzle cite The Bismarck Fox Tribune, but today Richard Cohen sums up Newt pretty well. In the class of top notch lying scoundrels with hearts of stone Newt is right there. Of course Karl Rove is on the Devil's first team, along with Glenn Beck. Take time to read Cohen's article he does such a good job of painting the whole picture of Newt and his unique ability to do the deeds of evil.

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Just sit there and you will get promoted.

Kadizzle has always wondered about the meek. The Bible says the Meek shall inherit the Earth. It could happen. For years Kadizzle has observed that those who just shut up and sit there do very well. Don't make waves has worked well for a lot of people. In the old days when Kadizzle had a job one thing was clear, ideas were not important. If you wanted to get ahead just sit and wait. Being quite and passive was a successful strategy. If you did nothing, you could do nothing wrong. One guy might have two bad ideas and one brilliant idea. The company saw him as a trouble maker. The guy who did nothing never caused a problem, he got the promotion.

In a society with free speech, it is amazing how people are afraid to say anything. All around us are frauds of every sort, but nobody says anything because the fear they may offend someone. The guys on Wall Street can rob the country blind, and have for years, but no one says anything because they don't want to seem anti social. Those who are not meek take advantage of the meek on a daily basis. The meek acquiesce to every kind of injustice because they so fear speaking up. When God said the meek shall inherit the Earth was that a compliment or an insult? I think he was saying "If that is all the better you can do, this is all you get". You have every right in the world to speak up for what you think is right, why don't you do it?

A Jihad with West River Telecommunications

Our local phone company is a hornet's nest of hypocrisy. The Republicans have taken it over and use it to promote their political candidates. This is incredible in and of itself when one considers that the phone company is a cooperative. Cooperatives by their very nature are Democratic, and socialist. What fries Kadizzle's ass is the same Republicans who insist there is a socialist behind every tree are running the most socialist organization in town. Now for the real clincher, the telephone coops support legislation that enables them to have a monopoly. Although it would save Lord Kadizzle a bundle if the local cable company provided Kadizzle with phone service, it aint going to happen. Why? Because those Republicans running the phone company refuse to permit the cable company to compete for telephone service. These are the same Republicans who are all for competition and free markets. The flames shoot out Kadizzles ears when he realizes these hypocrites are the same ones that cry foul when we try to have national health care. For some reason national phone service is just fine, but national health care smacks of socialism. So Kadizzle cannot use the telephones wired to his house for long distance calling. The socialist phone company with a monopoly in Hazen charges an outragous amount. The only way around it is with a cell phone. Now for the kicker. The cell phone franchise is run by the phone company. These unprincipled scoundrels promote the Republican cause using a telephone coop that was designed to defeat the very philosophy of greed they promote.

In The Land of the Crazy

One nice thing in a small town you know all the crazies, and many of them first hand. The other day Lord Kadizzle was down at city hall talking about the upcoming election. It never occurred to Kadizzle how serious it could be if no one ran. The city planner explained to me the danger of no one running. Hazen has had an eccentric quasi crazy man that has been around for years. The fellow has ridden a bike very similar to Pee Wee Herman's for years. When the gas station closes at night he shows up to get the hot dogs they are going to throw out. Once as judge Kadizzle had the fellow in court for a zoning violation. The first thing he told Judge Kadizzle was that Judge Kadizzle had no authority in Hazen because he was not born here. Kadizzle told him he could not get a building permit for what he wanted and was not to build it. Mr. Crazy then told Judge Kadizzle he would go to Beulah, the town ten miles west and get a permit. Crazy did not grasp the concept you cannot get a building permit in Beulah to construct a building in Hazen.

Now back to the voting. The city planner explained to Kadizzle that for almost every position in the city Mr. Crazy gets three or four write in votes. If no one runs for Mayor, that almost automatically means it will be Mr. Crazy. So it is essential someone run for every office.

Kadizzle and Coal

Coal practically runs in Lord Kadizzles veins. He worked his way through college as an underground coal miner, and work most of his life in the coal industry. However, none of this made him blind to the reality that the age of coal is over. Special interest would love Americans to believe you can clean coal and burn it. The laws of physics just simply will not let that happen. North Dakota could set off on a wave of prosperity by embracing nuclear power, but the coal lobby will not let it happen. There is no way out of the energy mess in the United States unless we embrace nuclear power. Nuclear power has it's problems, but they are small compared to suffocating from burning coal. The Bismarck Tribune which is the local arm of Fox news is such a lap dog to the coal industry that it will not even mention nuclear. Young people get so tired of the backward conservative thinking in North Dakota and they leave. This is the state that voted for Palin, and sadly would probably do it again.