Danger, Danger, political post

Just got back from Sam's Club. On each visit Kadizzle deliberately campaigns against Trump. Today Kadizzle had two good intense conversations with a black woman, and a black employee.  We discussed the Trump disaster at length.  The male employee was very sharp and had a lot of good observations. Kadizzle wanted to know from a minority person what went wrong.  Just like Kadizzle the employee said he went to bed thinking no way in hell would anyone with a brain vote for Trump.  He thought a landslide was assured for Hillary.  Kadizzle thought the same thing.  So will the minorities get out and rid us of this curse?  Well about half my contacts act like they don't give a damn, so it was very refreshing to talk to these two people.

Trump has reached a level  of insanity, stupidity, graft, and destruction even skeptics find hard to believe.  Trump's desire to destroy everything good is amazing, and there they are the idiots who still support him.  One thing that Kadizzle heard from a friend, and a person who has no use for Trump is " Well maybe he did a few good things".  Sure, but it is the old Hitler made the trains run on time routine.  Have you ever been to a timeshare presentation.  It sounds great, but you can sit there and see the fallacy, maybe.  A whole lot of people buy into the scam.  Trump is the ultimate con man.  Tell the dolts what they want to hear.  If they want to hear red today, and green tomorrow, just tell them what is popular at the moment.

It was very interesting getting a black mans perspective on politics. Kadizzle asked him to explain the black attitude.  Basically he said black people expect to suffer, and don't expect much to change.  Pretty sad when you think about it, but there must be a way to turn things around.

Trump's assault on the environment is beyond belief. The Kadizzles are on their way home from an incredibly scenic vacation.  Your typical American has no clue of the treasures in this country.  You will never know unless you get off your ass and look.  We, we own the land.  Two thirds of most Western states are publicly owned.  It is a treasure.  Trump and his rats want to steal our country and give it to their rich buddies.  You should at least go out and see what they want to steal.  At the Grand Canyon the haze often obstructs what was once a pristine view.  Trump is trying his best to make it worse.

Across the great divide

Here we are in Denver.  The American west is something every American should see.  The Kadizzles saw a truckload.  Utah still takes the prize.  No State has the scenery of Utah. We took an alternate route through some magnificent country. 

Taking a tent instead of our Earth Module was a mistake.  Too old to sleep on the ground and crawl out of a tent to pee at night.  There is something about the Grand Canyon that makes the wind come up every night.  Two people camping in neighboring sites had campfires.  Did not seem like a good idea and a ripe chance to start a forest fire.

Kadizzle was very lucky the Hudsons charged his ebike everyday, then when they took off the people on the North of us charged up the old ebike.  The North Rim is the place to go.  The view from the South Rim is better, but the slower pace and fewer people on the North Rim makes it a lot nicer.  The dispersed camping on the North Rim is wonderful, so many nice spots.  Perhaps we will take the Earth Module down there and do some serious exploring.  Saw a lot of great places to explore with the Yamaha.

On the way back.

Winky hiked across the Grand Canyon with Al, and Deb.  Kadizzle stayed on the North Rim and picked them up on the South Rim on Sunday.  The hikers experience 136 degree temperature at the bottom of the canyon.  That was in the sun.  Kadizzle did a lot of ebiking.  Deb, and Al are trying to complete the Arizona Trial in segments.  The AZ goes through the Grand Canyon.  The AZ is 800 miles long from Mexico to Utah.  Kadizzle has hiked and biked about fifty miles of it.   The biking on the AZ on the North Rim is wonderful. The trail is in amazing shape for bikes, and scenery is hard to beat.  One minor problem was a flat tire, but a park ranger gave Kadizzle a ride and solved the problem.  Met some wonderful people who let us share their great site overlooking the canyon.   We camped five miles off the main road.  Hike to a fire tower where  Edward Abby wrote some of his books.  That makes two fire towers we shared with him.  Here we sit in Greenriver.  This town looks like the depression never ended here.  Will give more details tomorrow.  Hope all Kadizzlites are doing well.

Over the mountain.

The wedding is over and Boulder Beer can return to business.  Some great food and some great toast to the new couple.  Funerals and weddings are not Kadizzle's favorite summer time pass time, but we got er done.  Took another amazing bike ride on the ebike about 15 miles around Boulder.  Such nice bike paths along creeks and through undeveloped land.

Today we are going to bust toward the Grand Canyon.  Mrs. Kadizzle is going to hike from one side to the other.  Old man Kadizzle will be the driver.  The water line at the Grand Canyon has broken and it may cause complications.

Have not been over the mountains in the summer in a long time.  Thank ya Jesus we are not pulling the RV. 

Absolutely amazing how the NRA has such a grip on the country.  The fact that school children can be shot up everyday and no one cares is amazing.  Trump and his worthless gang of lickspittles in North Dakota make puking seem pleasant.  How people can be so brain dead.  Seeing the pathetic Republicans on TV defending the 2nd amendment is another painful sight.  When a member of my family is shot you can count on Kadizzle to go full blown nuts, but why wait until it hits home.  That is what is not understandable.  Why do we fail so miserably to solve a problem before it hits home?

Taking Little Joey on a Bike Ride

Kadizzles in Boulder, Colorado.  Just had a fantastic bike adventure at the Boulder Bike Park.  What an amazing place.  Miles of every type of trail right in the city.  Some very challanging jumps, curves and so on.  The pros were jumping high in the air off of some jumps that would instantly kill this old man. Moving Little Joey about on trails with jumps over rocks, and some pretty interesting terrain has old Kadizzle worn down a little.

Why do just the people in Boulder have all this nice stuff?  Boulder probably went farther than any town with planning for bikes and green spaces.  The bike paths all over town are amazing, and people use them.  Back to the bike park.  When we buzzed around the bike park Kadizzle kept thinking this is not an expensive thing to make.  It is all just dirt, gravel, rocks.  Why can't our little town have some nice paths.  Kadizzle has had some great rides on the ebike since he purchased it in November of last year.  A few minutes ago Evan gave the ebike a try.  Everyone who tries it loves it.  Get one you will not have any regrets.  So far Kadizzle has gone about sixteen hundred miles on the ebike.  At some point it will save enough gas to pay for itself, but it already has paid for itself in enjoyment.  For getting around a city the ebike is hard to beat. 

Another big party tonight as we work toward the wedding of Jeb on Sunday.  The blasted ticklepinch just insisted Grandpa go downtown to the fribble shops with her.  Sylvie has a plan, Kadizzle knows it will be an attempt to get old Kadizzle to buy the blasted little lady some silly needless item.  Kadizzle will probably succumb.

We will never run out of room

Down through South Dakota, and Wyoming, and into Colorado we sailed in the Tundra.  There is an endless supply of empty land.  The old neighbor up the street once made this trip and came back. He declared we would never run out of space.  This is the same guy who said " Education just confuses people".   The Red Hats just don't get math, data, science, history, or reality.  The world is running out of everything including land that will support humans.  As the forest burn the simple minded have no idea that it is the forest that provide oxygen.  At one time there was no oxygen on the planet.  Oxygen was produced by plant life.  The plants take in CO2 and give off O2.  That is basic science.  When you produce CO2 faster than plants can take it out of the air you have a problem.  How could  you make this problem worse.  That is Trumps approach to everything. How can I make this worse?  You could deregulate methane which is 84 times worse than CO2 for heating the planet.  Yup, Trump wants to make it so we can put more methane into the air. 

The air conditioning is out of order so here we sit at Erin's house, but it is not a serious problem.  Sylvie is growing so fast.  She is just about as tall  as her  mom and her grandma.  That teenage nuclear bomb is approaching quickly. Sylvie is in the fifth grade.  As an only child she is living a good life.  Very little she wants or needs does not come to fruition.  All things considered she is surviving well.  Sylvie got another part in a play. They want to give all the kids a chance, so they did not give Sylvie the lead part. Of course we all know she is the best, but the other kids must be encouraged.  After all we are not Republicans where the winner takes all and the peasants starve.

Blast Off

Slightly after 6 A.M. and the ship is being readied for the trip to Colorado.  The amount of junk filling the pickup truck is a bit astonishing.  Two bikes are in the back and the back seat is jammed.  It will be a biking, hiking, trip.  Winkie has all sorts of stuff from the garden to give to the kids.  Old Jeb is getting married and that will be the main event.  Jeb has what might be considered a dream job. Jeb is a sales rep for a brewery.   Imagine going around suggesting to people they drink beer.

Trump's lying is amazing.  He actually lies about lying.  More amazing are his fans that are incapable of seeing his fraud.  Trump's assault on the environment, health care, education, science and decency just goes on and on.  If you are a worthless lickspittle and scoundrel Trump has a job for you. 

Recently a couple of his old buddies have turned on him.  Back stabbing 101 is a popular course at the White House.  Trump expects loyalty, but does not have an once of it himself.  Trump would push his grandmother down the stairs in a wheelchair if it would get him better poll numbers. 

The good old Hoopleheads are still with the Trumpster.   Recently Trump has turned on Fox News.  Yet most of that gang of idiots is still with him.  Over and over Trump has made it clear the supply of idiots is way higher than anyone ever predicted.

Trump's latest gambit to have the next G7 meeting at his place is beyond belief.  Such a conflict of interest and so blatant.  Of course the good old Hoopleheads just don't notice as Trump milks the public to support his own wallet.

Slow Start

Jeb is going to marry up and the Kadizzles are going to the soirée.  Today we were supposed to leave, but the process of packing is going slowly so the trip has been postponed for a day.  Now fearless leader is proposing one more delay.

Mrs. Kadizzle plans to hike from one side of the Grand Canyon to the other with some friends.  Kadizzle is supposed to drive to the North Side and pick them up.  Kadizzle will have to entertain himself while they do the hike.  The plan is to explore with the electric bike.

Kadizzle was shocked when he figured the milage for this gambit.  Should we take the car of the truck?  The car will get about 22 mpg and the truck 16.  Neither is very good, but on that distance six miles per gallon makes a big difference.  Well the hell with it just add some more CO2 to the air, no one cares, besides it is getting cold and we could use some warmth.

If you want to be depressed watch the video posted below.  Hard times come again no more.  As Kadizzle watched he could not help but think of the one percent pissing away money while so many suffer.  Of course it is all just a matter of degree.  The most disturbing thing in the video is a picture of a buzzard sitting before a starving child waiting for the child to die so the buzzard can eat the remains.  With this picture in your head think about Trump golfing. 

Hard Times, Come Again No More - Thomas Hampson

Gravity attacks

Gravity is a constant danger.  Remember it is gravity that brings you to the ground with a thud.  Also it is gravity that racks up those numbers on the bathroom scale.  Good cooks are part of gravities gang.  Yesterday Honest Omar and Mrs Honest prepared a great meal for the Kadizzles.  So today Kadizzle must fight back against gravity and resist the sideways pull of gravity.  Most people think gravity only pull one toward the center of the Earth.  There are other forms of gravity that pull people towards refrigerators, comfortable chairs, and even beds.

Kadizzle took a test in the New York Times today about climate change and did not do that well on ranking the biggest problems.  Try taking the test.  Our planet is in big trouble.  Humans are trying to cure a planet of fire with thoughts and prayers.  Just like the gun battle, thoughts and prayers will not save the planet.  As if that were not bad enough we have a president who is doing the work of Satan, the Russians, and doing his best to destroy any reasonable approach to the climate problem.  The mother of all rats, The Donald skipped the G7 meeting on climate.  Trump golfs while the Amazon burns, and the oceans rise. 

We might squeak out the door before the planet is toast, but not our children.  Republicans don't care about the next generation.  Money, money, money is all Republicans care about.  Try breathing money, try eating money, try patching your cancer with money. 

Look at the people with money who are in prison, abusing little children, and doing what Republicans do.  How much do the rich need before they will allow the rest of the human beings to live a decent life?

Dusty Springfield - Think it's going to rain today Kadizzle wants you to listen, you will like it.

Shaniki the railroad man

Shanik will be driving railroad crews around.  Old Shanik is addicted to driving, so it may be a perfect fit. When the trains stop someone has to go out and switch the crews. Maybe he will make his first run today.  Part of the job is being on hot standby waiting for a call.  The job is like Uber for the railroad.

Kadizzle has accidentally worked himself into the position of curtain repair man.  Now when the strings in the curtains break at home or the neighbors Kadizzle has to rethread and fix the damn things. The moral of the store is stay incompetent.

Fall is fast approaching.  Winkie has decided to hike the Grand Canyon rim to rim with some friends. Kadizzle has been down an back twice, but does not need to go from one side to the other.  It will be about a three day venture.  Kadizzle will be the Uber driver and pick up the gang on the other side.  This adventure should start next week.  Off to Denver then on to the Grand Canyon.

How about some politics?  Kadizzle will take a hit and a recession if it means getting rid of the idiot in chief.  Since Trump is known in legal circles as Individual 1 when he is child molesting or using prostitutes Kadizzle will need to name a friend Individual 2. 

Individual 2 is a good friend of Kadizzle.  Kadizzle tried his best to save Individual 2 from his misguided vote for Trump.  More than likely it all came down to abortion.  Now Individual 2 is amazed at what a hopeless childish mess Individual 1 is.  In fact Individual 2 was telling Kadizzle how Trump was bringing us fascism.  Individual 2 has seen the light but has such a hard time changing.  Years ago Kadizzle told Individual 2 that Toyotas were very reliable and good cars.  Individual 2 explained he could not buy a Toyota because his father would never buy a Japanese car.  Then one day Kadizzle walked down the street and saw a Toyota Camray parked in Individual 2's drivway.  It had an out of state license.  Kadizzle guessed it was the Dad who would not buy Japanese.  Then the Dad bought another Toyota.  Dad had changed, could Individual 2 change?  A few years went by and Individual 2 finally bought one Toyota, then another.  Now Individual 2 is happy with his cars.   Can Individual 2 break out of the Republican rut.  How many people vote Republican because Dad did.  Dad might be dead.  Did Dad ever know how bad Republicans could get.  If Dad was alive would he vote for an idiot like Trump. It would be an insult to think your Dad is or was that stupid.  So honor your Dad and show him you can change.  Your dad changed.

Old Men take third place

As the boat was tossed about Stroupini struggled to help Jan take off the ripped mainsail and replace it.  Changing a mainsail with the boat healed over at 35 degrees in a strong wind is not do da, but our crew managed.  It was like changing a flat tire without stopping the car, but we did it.  Jan,  Stoupini, and Kadizzle were racing Xanadu.  That was the first big boat Kadizzle owned.  Now the boat belonged to Jan.  A forty year old sail was bound to become toilet paper in a big wind.

The race course was over to Prairie Dog Island and back.  The wind was from the south and we had to go right into it.  Once around the island it was a downhill slide back to the finish line.  Xanadu had a photo finish with Point B another boat about our size.  Kadizzle  knew from the old days that we could have really made up some time on the last leg by putting up more sail, but Stroupini and Jan were too worn down from the sail replacement to put up more sail.  In the end it was a lot of fun and a great race, but Kadizzle is really feeling his age after being out in a howling wind, and rough seas all day. 

Lumpadiglitus

Lumpa-digli- itus:  A condition that results from failure to walk by ice cream, pie, cake, or food in general. Kadizzle has lumpadiglitus.  Symtoms:  pants may feel tight, going up and down steps seems harder,  seats sink lower, bed caves in, food taste so good.

Lumpadiglitus is also known as dunlaps disease.  That is when your belly dun laps over your belt.

There is no known treatment for lumpadiglitus.  People recommend easing they symptoms by staying away from the refrigerator, the cupboards, the wine storage, and the grill.  All of them can cause the infection that make the mid section swell. 

People suffering are often afraid of scales, being seen naked,  and asked to walk up steps.

The lumpadiglitus society recommends a twelve step program.  First take twelve steps away from food, then take twelve steps in any direction, and continue taking twelve steps until you actually get some exercise.

The society has weekly meetings where rotten food is served, and all dishes are meant to be disgusting.  Often we invite a terrible cook to make a meal.  The room is surrounded by mirrors and 25 pound sacks of potatoes so we can figure how many sacks we weigh.

There is a handout for your spouse which has remarks they can make like " That shirt used to fit you" or " Do you want me to buy you a new belt?".

Lumpadiglitus is fatal.  No person with lumpadiglitus has ever lived beyond 110 years old.

Lumpers are what we call each other.  Now if you like to watch birds that is fine, but you can go to Walmart and watch lumpers.  How do you spot a lumper.  First look for the shadow.  A lumper will cast a large shadow.  In fact many lumpers have part time jobs providing shade at weddings.  Next look at the lumpers shopping cart. A good lumper will make a ring of sugar drinks around the top of the cart.  This makes it possible to stack the Cheetos higher.  Most lumpers wear comfortable clothes like pajamas and sweat pants.  A good lumper will drive an electric cart around the store. 

So Kadizzle will sign off with a cup of coffee in front of him.  This is the second or third cup and each cup has some Agave in it.  The agave is like glue for the fat cells that stick to Kadizzle. 

Didn't notice you were mentally ill.

Stroupini and Kadizzle went to the Subway hall to have lunch.  Sitting there was an old guy famous in Hazen for being a few bubbles off.  The old fellow told us how on their farm they used to bury rocks to provide nitrogen to the soil.  Politely we listened to the nonsense, but we knew the fellow was not running with a full tank. 

This brings us to our president.  Trump is simply mentally ill.  The amazing thing are the people who just don't notice.  Trump often speaks incoherently.  No problem.  Trump thinks he might be sent by God.  Of course.  Trump believes he is the greatest everything.  OK.  The Trumpster is nuts, yet you have adults who just don't notice.  Within minutes Trump will reverse himself and lie like a dog, but his followers and supporters just don't notice.

Fall is coming like a freight train.  Kadizzle has been asked to race his old sailboat Xanadu.  It will be fun to race the boat like we did in the old days.  Now for a little bragging.  If we manage to win it will be the third or fourth time the Kadizzle crew wins the race.  In fact the only time anyone else has won was last year when we did not participate.  The race committee at the last race we were in told us that if we won we would be awarded the second place prize.  This begged the question, what if we came in second would we get first place?  That would be a strange race where you had to come in second to win.  Strangely coming in second in a sailboat race would be very difficult.  Sailboat races are handicapped so you don't actually know how well you are doing until the race is over.  A timed handicap means the winning boat must beat the next boat by a certain amount of time.   On the water . you have no real idea of how much time the boat behind you is.  Now, for a little honesty.  Most of the racers are inexperienced.  Then there is one more factor there are not that many boats.  Very few may show up for the race. In fact it could be down to three, so getting third place will not be hard.

Money trickles uphill

Government has one main function and that is to distribute things.  Government decides how much money goes where.  Does it go to health care or does it got to the military? Does it go to education or to sugar subsidies? Government is simply a giant distribution scheme.  It is not a one way street.  Not only does government decide how the money goes out, but it also decides how it comes in.  Republicans realize that when you control government you can have the money come in from the working class and go out to the rich.  So Republicans simply take control of the government.  How do they do that?  The main tools are fear, ignorance, and just plain lying.  Who provides the fear ignorance, and lying?  Donald Trump, Fox News, and a population engaged in sports as theater do the trick.  Republicans know facts and reality are their worst enemy, so why not do away with both?  This explains the invention of " fake news".   Now we have all kinds of truth and facts. If you believe it, it is true, and that is the new standard.

How will this all unfold?  People never pay attention until they are uncomfortable.  If you have enough to eat, a warm place to let your bowels loose, and a flat screen TV you don't care if you are being robbed blind.  As long as people are comfortable no need to get upset about how things are distributed. 

There is a problem.  Even though you are sitting in your living room watching TV and eating a pizza if the water starts coming in under your door you got a problem.  The subtle destruction of the environment cannot be ignored once your house starts to go under water.  Tornados will interrupt Jeapordy.  Then of course there is the fundamental problem of breathing.  Sometimes the air gets so bad it kills people.

Now back to the beginning.  What if you take everything?  As a country we have taken everything.  That could result in the people you took it from coming to get it back.  These people are called immigrants.  Once you rob the world and the world is a miserable place the people you robbed may want to come to your house.

Republican believe in the " Hell with everyone, I got mine".   In all of history this has never worked.  Once a small group of people take it all the revolution begins, and the greedy bastards we call Republican sometimes loose their heads, then it starts all over.

Well back to the depression.  What was the depression all about?  The depression was all about the people on top taking it all.  It got to the point that either they gave some back or lost their heads.  They did give some back, but only enough to start the cycle one more time.

Here we are once more where all the money has tricked to the top and we are approaching the time when the Hoopleheads may wake up.  What will wake up the Hoopleheads?  Time has a way of making us all older.  There is an abundance of people nearing retirement age, but they will not be able to retire, not enough money.  When the people now in their late forties, and early fifties start to realize they just will never be able to retire they will ask the question " How come mom and dad got to retire, but we have to work until we die?  The people will see that the Republicans enabled a few rich people to steal everything.  The take back cycle will start over. 

Who cares?  I got mine, and it looks like I can make it to the finish line, but pity our children, we robbed them blind with the help of The Donald, The Kevin Cramer, and Kelly Armstrong.  Hopefully their heads will be the first to roll if and when the revolution comes.

Religion is a business

Churches are nothing but a mildly disguised business.  The church is similar to a casino.  You put money in and get nothing back but hope. Both churches and casinos prey on delusional people.  Yes you can get to heaven with the right amount of money in the plate, or in the slot machine.  Look at churches and what they do with the money.  In Phoenix you see where the Mormons spent millions upon millions on buildings, same is true with the casinos.  When you want to impress the people you are about to rob always do it in a giant building with all the trimmings. 

An old friend of Kadizzle's went into the insane cathedral in Richardton, North Dakota.  Ray, who called himself and orthodox atheist said " I'll bet a lot of farmers went broke building this place".

This all brings us to the time when Kadizzle asked Pat Robertson to help a family in Pick City, North Dakota.  Kadizzle called up the 800 number and asked for help for a family in need.  The rotten bastards said they cannot just send money out on the word of Kadizzle.  Well they sure as hell don't check when the money comes in.  Pat's gang of thieves never checks to see if the people he is robbing can afford to be robbed, but Pat has to investigate before he helps a family.  In the end the poor guy Kadizzle was trying to help committed suicide and left a two year old baby.    That is American religion in action.  Pat Robertson has 600 million he bilked from old ladies.

Religion is a game where you can steal tax free.  Back in the home town of Wheeling, West Virginia the good old Bishop was stealing millions from the Catholic Church.  Bishop Bilkmore lived in a four million dollar home, had one hundred dollar flower arrangements sent every day, gave some gay priest tens of thousands, and lived well on the 250 million endowment an oil heir left the church.  Go to Las Vegas or Rome and you will see where the money of fools goes.

Now think about this, if you invested in the stock market instead of gods thieves on Earth how would it have turned out?  Every month if you invested what you put in the church what would you have?

More than likely you would have a considerable sum.  You could use this money to truly help people, not build megalithic churches.  What could be more wasteful than a huge building used once a week for a few hours.  Why not build a pyramid?

Stroupini's Shed

Old Stroupini decided to move into town.  On his new lot at his in town house is a shed.  Stroupini wants to reside the shed with lumber reclaimed from his bank.  Kadizzle has been the assistant carpenter on the project. We have two sides done and the cedar siding looks pretty nice. To old duffers putting along slowly, but so far it has turned out well.  With a sunny day in front of us we may make some good progress today.

The one percent is doing just fine.  Yesterday we had to go to the lake to get some lumber.  Up on the lake the one percent is striking gold.  Multi million dollar homes are springing up.  Meanwhile the slummers are working for 7 bucks an hour.  Of course the poor got themselves in the fix.  Just like Jesus got himself in a fix for opening up his mouth and asking people to share.  Now we have the new messiah Donald Trump.  The Donald will bring guns to everyone along with some nice tax breaks for the rich.  Can Donald raise Epstein from the dead?  If the Donald could then Epstein could tell everyone it was the Clintons that killed him.

Imagine the insanity of The Donald claiming the Clintons murdered the child sex ring service leader.  The Red Hats will buy any insanity the Donald puts out. 

Taking a brick for a ride

Well old Kadizzle took the city official for a tour of the slum warriors yesterday in Hazen.  Did not get much reaction.  When are you going to do something? " Well we need to work on it".  Let's see it has been six years and he old junked truck still sits in the driveway up the street.  " Well the police are busy with other stuff".  Yup the town of Hazen is crawling with drug dealers and gangs.   Yup that sure looks like a yard full of junk.  Hmmm well you know we are working on it. 

Good old Kevin Cramer the worst lickspittle ever to breathe air answered my letter.  Kadizzle asked the honorable suck up what he was going to do to raise the cap on social security so the rich would have to pay in.  Back comes a computer generated letter that sings the praises of Trump and never mentions the subject Kadizzle asked about. 

Just ignore the complainers seems to be what works in this country.  Kadizzle and the Mrs. Kadizzle just saw a short segment about how Trump won man of the year in Michigan.  There is no such award, and no record Trump ever won it, but who cares the Hoopleheads will believe anything the liar in chief says.

The Jihad

Sadly Hazen is afflicted with blind public servants.  The city commissioners cannot see the cars parked on the sidewalk or the junk piling up in yards.  This morning Kadizzle is going to take one of the city commissioners on a tour of Hazen and let him use his cane to find the junk.  One stop on the junk tour will be over by the little old ladies house.  The little old lady has a yard neatly kept and takes pride in the area. A slum warrior moved into the house in front of her and peppered the yard with junk.  Little old lady confronted the city commissioners about the junk infestation. The simple minded commissioners suggested she build a fence so she does not have to see the collection. 

Yesterday Kadizzle was riding his ebike past some a slum warrior nest.  The slummers dog must have smelled Kadizzle. Kadizzle smells like a bacon cheeseburger to a dog.  The dog ran out and bit Kadizzle on the shoe.  No harm done, but Kadizzle thought the dog would be a real danger to little children riding by.   Fortunately Kadizzle had a hand saw with him.  Stroupini had given Kadizzle the saw.   With the saw as a sword Kadizzle fought off the dog.  Kadizzle asked the police to come by and do something about the dog.  The policeman mentioned that the slummers had been told they could not have chickens under their front porch.  A slum infestation is something that gradually takes over and our commissioners don't seem to notice.

So at 9:30 Kadizzle will saddle up the wagon and take the blind commissioner on tour.  One thing Stevie Wonder will get to see is the school bus that has been parked on the city boulevard for 25 years, and some of the other yard art.

Stroupini who always has a brilliant mind for dealing with the city commission suggested to Kadizzle that Kadizzle publish a Hazen calendar with monthly pictures of the rat nest.

How's that slavery workin for you?

If only everyone would read the New York Times.  Today there is an article that explains how American capitalism is based on the plantation model.  Slavery never went away, it just morphed into wage slavery.  It is the same game.  A few people take all the goodies, and everyone else works until they die.  Quality of life means nothing in this country.  Read how closely slave owners monitored production, then look at how UPS monitors it's slaves.

Your typical redneck has no conception of how the economy works.  All the productivity gains since 1978 have gone to the top one percent.  Who cares?  As long as you have a good fairly new pickup truck, a nice fishing boat, some gas, and a six pack the world just does not get any better, until you try to retire, or you get hurt.  The roads fall apart, teachers starve, and cancer kills us, but the truck runs great.

Still Amazed

The Kadizzled brain is still spinning from encountering a Trumpster at the bank last year.  Just the thought that such idiots are in responsible positions is a scary proposition.  This morning Kadizzle read Paul Krugman.  Do idiots every pick up some real news or real commentary?   It is just hard to come to grips with the shear number of dolts wandering about.  What does Trump have to do to alienate the dolts?  So many people who once were his buddies have said he is  " Off the rails".    When you are at a magic show and the guy next to you insist the lady was sawed in half, you know you have a problem.

Wow

Kadizzle just went in the local bank for some insurance business.  Kadizzle thought he saw a ND legislator working there.  Kadizzle is so pissed about Republicans support for gun violence he decided to have a talk with what he thought was his ND rep.   It turned out the fellow was no longer in the legislature.  However, we had a little talk about gun violence.  After the ex rep told Kadizzle he was for concealed carry, and would vote for Trump again the fellow asked Kadizzle if Kadizzle thought he was a redneck.  Kadizzle answered yes.  The scary thing is this guy is like so many walking around in the fog.  If only he had been one of the current dolts in the legislature.

Gloomy days are piling up

So much rain in North Dakota is unusual, especially in August.  Never has the grass been this green so late in the year. Kadizzle poured the fertilizer to the yard and we are raising hay.

The Trump dolts are amazing.  Anyone with a sense of smell knows the Donald is a predator.  The Donald and his gang have so many indications they were abusing young girls.  Yet in spite of this you still have the simple minded with the Red Hats glued to their heads. 

The level of sanity is incomprehensible.  Blame it on the Clintons.  The Clintons can control the weather.  Greedy Republicans are innocent.

You know stupidity is rampant in North Dakota when KFYR radio can sell magic pillows to the Hoopleheads.  The Hoopleheads go to church and Jesus tells them to pray for tax breaks.  Kadizzle may strike it rich selling tin foil hats on KFYR radio.

What do you do on a rainy day?  One endless job is trying to put the workshop in the basement in order.  What do you throw out and what do you keep?  Someday I may need that, even though I haven't for twenty years. 

The Kadizzles have been trying to sell the homestead for over a year.  The real estate market in Hazen is worse than bad.  The coal industry is dying a slow death.  Of course no one wants to admit the game is over.  There is no plan for the future in North Dakota. Republicans want to go backwards.  The good old days when the your could hunt Indians and own a few slaves.  Those were the days when white was right.  Trump can get us back there.

Walking Among Zombies

The planet is melting, the rich are fornicating with children, and the zombies just don't notice.  As a plane flies into a mountain everyone on the plane is comfortable, warm, and enjoying their book.  This is America.   I am not in pain, I have plenty to eat, so why do you talk to me about tomorrow? Nothing changes, on it goes.  The last time the country actually had enough cold hungry people to awaken was the depression.  People noticed the rich stole the cheese.  Slowly the rich got the cheese back, but until we are cold, hungry, and our cable TV is taken away we just don't care.

The wall is out there it is just a matter of time until we hit it.  The gauge will go to empty as those following behind us move into the future.

It is a gloomy day here in the Dakotas.  So why not some downbeat news.  The Kadizzles went to the big house last night.  The master put on a feed for the slaves. The slaves were all very grateful. It is the master who gives us jobs, and we owe him a lot.  We were back in the homeland minding our own business  when the master's gang showed up and promised us a better life picking cotton and planting rice.  After we raise the crops it sure is nice of the old master to give us some to eat.  Of course the master gives us a little better houses than the huts we used to have, but still not sure this was a good trade.  Apparently God wanted it this way.  The master lets us go to church and assures us his God meant us to do all the work and for him to have all the goodies.  The master said if we were good and worked hard some day we could have our own slaves and a nice mansion.  It sounds like the deal the Mormons offered us.  If we give them ten percent when we die we can be God of our own planet.  I want to be a Mormon, picking cotton is getting old.

Down the river

Debbie, Al, and Winky may go from the dam down to Stanton today on the Missouri.  Debbie and Al may go on a standing paddle board.  Could be some wet cold people before the day is over.

Trump has brought the country to it's knees with his total abdication of sanity.  Kadizzle is absolutely amazed when he meets anyone who still stands by the racist in chief.  The dolts are like weeds they just keep growing. 

Hearing the pathetic spinners trying to justify the idiocy of Trump is a difficult mission. Kadizzle may turn on KFYR radio to get the tractor version of Trump is Jesus.  Walking among the Trump supporters is just plain scary.  These people resemble normal people, but you know if you opened their heads you would find mold and rot.  Don't pick up a real newspaper because it will be frightening.  The world is melting and so is the IQ of America.

Kadizzle wins 10 million

Last month Kadizzle won 4 million dollars while he was at the top of the ladder painting the house.  It was a real nuisance.  Yesterday Kadizzle won the Publisher Clearing House 10 million dollar prize.  Again it was a nuisance.  Kadizzle just doesn't need anymore millions.  Only Republicans need more, more, more.  Well, John Tyler the representative from Publisher Clearing house explained to Kadizzle how he would collect his ten million.  First John told Kadizzle to write down the secret number, and his badge number.  John wanted to know if Kadizzle was home.  John even asked Kadizzle his age and former occupation. Kadizzle told John he formerly worked for the FBI.   John wanted to know what color Mercedes Kadizzle wanted and what interior.  Kadizzle chose leather, and a black paint.  Of course Kadizzle had to pay some cost to cover the taxes for the IRS.  John asked Kadizzle how far the bank was from his house.  Kadizzle told him it was less than a mile.  John wanted to know if Kadizzle was dressed to go to the bank.  Kadizzle already told John he had a credit card and a debit card.

The day was sunny and after all John had interrupted Kadizzle on a nice ebike ride around Harmony Lake. It was time to tell poor old John his whole thing was a scam.  Kadizzle told John he was an FBI agent and electronically tracking him.  John said " fuck you".  This did not seem like a nice thing for a Publisher Clearing House employee to say.  Kadizzle told John he had been on the line long enough to track him.  John told Kadizzle " You will never catch me" and then John started angrily saying to Kadizzle " Fuck your bum, fuck your bum".   Apparently John was British or Irish.  Forgot to say John used some sort of computer device to disguise his voice.  Well there goes another ten million that would have come in handy. 

Maybe the tide is turning

Kadizzle has a sense people may be coming out of the fog.  That is the Trump fog.  Just cannot put the finger on it, but seem to notice people who were or are of the Republican bent are beginning to become conscious about just how hopeless and immoral Trump is.  Kadizzle has known a couple of people who were mum about the Trump nonsense who are now tapping around the edges of admitting we have a problem.

Paul Krugman who writes for the New York Times has a good article today.  Krugman has exactly the view Kadizzle does about Trump.  If Kadizzle had to chose two go to people Krugman and Bill Maher would be the ones.  On a North Dakota level we have Tony Bender. 

We can only hope. 

In a sense Kadizzle had the mother of all victories last night.  The Hazen City Commission finally passed a new ordinance dealing with the deplorables.   It will be a false victory because just like the old ordinance they will not have the courage to actually implement it.  This has been a six year battle.

Yesterday Kadizzle had a talk with a little old lady who lives nearby.  She is a firecracker.  Some deplorables bought the house in front of her house and immediately made the yard into a hoarder yard.  She called the mayor and gave him the chew.  I think she may have pushed the mayor over the top.  There is something magic about angry little old ladies.  You cannot yell at them, you cannot beat them, and they seem too much like grandma to ignore.  When a little old lady tells you something you feel like you better do it and listen.  Maybe if a little old lady would confront Trump and tell him what an A - hole he is it would work.  Would Trump tell a little old lady to go back to the nursing home?  Would he make up a nick name for her?  It would all blow up in his face. 

My good friend Dina Butcher started the Bad Ass Grandma program and it worked.  Grandmas have power and we just need to activate the Grandma power in the country.

Sunday Morning

Winkie and Kadizzle are up watching the recorded version of Bill Maher.  No one hits it on the head better.  Maher is toxic to Republicans and can fillet them better than anyone.  If you want the highest quality most funny political information he is your guy.

New York Times has an article about the permafrost melting.  The world is melting and people just keep singing zippity do da. 

Well our new multi million dollar bathroom is complete and Kadizzle may go wash the body of sins. There is an idea in the head to take the electric bike and go to the lake today.  To make it up there and back on one battery will take some serious peddling.  Removing the chicken fat from this lumbering lard filled body is a necessity.  Stay tuned.

Range war may break out

Monday the City Commission will address a new ordinance that will have the deplorables enraged.  A local junk collector chose the name deplorables for their group, not Kadizzle, but it is fitting.  The deplorables feel it is their right to collect as much junk in their yards as they wish.  The deplorable on our street has three junked pickup trucks, four boats, a fifth wheel, a junked car and miscellaneous other crap.  Zoning laws mean nothing to the deplorables.   The father of one of the deplorables calls their junk inventory.  The deplorables are hoarders.   Their mental illness takes place in their yards.

For over five years Kadizzle has been at war with the deplorables.  The City Commission in Hazen is a gutless bunch that don't want to offend good old Joe the deplorable.  One deplorable has had an old school bus full of junk on the city boulevard for ten years. 

Monday there more than likely will be a room full of deplorables at city hall explaining how it is their right to own junked cars and keep them in their yard.  There must be an amendment in the constitution that protects the junk dealers, just like it does the gun dealers.

More than likely the City Commission will cave to the deplorables.   Every deplorable has a junker that " I am going to fix up".  It never gets fixed up, it is there when the deplorable dies.

Hazen has a process for violating zoning laws.  Old Joe the deplorable comes to the city commission.  Old Joe wants to violate an ordinance.  The city commissioners know everyone loves old Joe so they make an exception.  Next Good old Willy comes in and wants to violate.  Willy says " You let Joe do it, how about me".  OK and the next thing you know there is pandemonium.  Now you can drive around Hazen and see buildings that look like hell in the wrong place, junked cars, no sidewalks, and on it goes.  Well the range war starts Monday come on down.

Praise be unto Jeeesus, it rained

The rain did what Kadizzle could not, watered the yard.  Years ago Kadizzle installed his own Rube Goldberg lawn sprinkler system.  Mrs. Kadizzle hated it, but it did deliver six thousand gallons an hour to the yard.  The system fell into disuse and Kaddizle tried to revive it, but apparently some wildlife moved into the pipes.

With the setback Kadizzle set out to install the used pump Rodger gave him.  Kadizzle began to pour money into the new mess.  A little at a time the water got closer to the yard from the creek.  As things started to look good Kadizzle turned on the pump and realized the power cord could not handle the needed electricity.  The only solution was more money for a bigger cord.  Well the hell with it.  Today Kadizzle will sadly junk the whole project. 

Kadizzle puts little time into his diatribes that get sent to the Bismarck Tribune.  However, Tony Bender often had the same theme and does a much better job.  Like Kadizzle Bender noticed what a terrible sad case our new representative Kelly Armstrong is.   Bender wrote a good article about Armstong's attack on Mueller during the hearings. 

Living in North Dakota has the feeling of living in Nazi Germany.  When you live here you know there are Hoopleheads all around you who would vote for Satan if it got them a tax break.  The phony Christianity that permeates the state only makes it worse.  We love children until they are born.  Here we sit in a state with a pile of money and we will not spend it unless it keeps Republicans in office.

About the post below

Kadizzle posted the video below about some men working in what we call in West Virginia " Low Coal".  Years ago Kadizzle worked in southern West Virginia in the coal industry.  Jim Jones, my boss offered to take me into a low coal mine.  I had worked in high coal, but never been in low coal.  Low coal is about 28 inches high.   Kadizzle had worked in some 4ft coal in the Ohio Valley.   As you will see in the video you crawl in low coal, you cannot stand up.  You never appreciate a puddle until you have to crawl through one.

The reason my boss took me in the low coal was because it had a long wall mining system.  That is a whole different story and if you want you can look it up.  In the coarse of being in the low coal a miner went by pulling a child's wagon with a strap over his shoulder. The wagon was loaded with dynamite.  That should have been a clue they were about to blast.  Kadizzle was not expecting the blast when they shot the coal.  It startled him and he quickly raised up, only to hit his back and head on the roof of the mine. 

Miners who work in low coal get used to it and would prefer it to high coal. This is strange, but there is an explanation.  In high coal you can have what are called rib rolls.  That is where the side wall just caves in on you.  In low coal the sides are so small it is not a problem. 

The reason low coal is mined is because it is so valuable.  It is metallurgical coal that sells for a premium.

Coal mining in America's heartland | DW Documentary

Down the Missouri

We made it from the dam to Stanton and then some.  Our crew launched the two kayaks and one canoe.  Kadizzle took the canoe down in the garage at Ray's place.  Ray has passed on, but his canoe lives.  It seemed like one should not use such a piece of art as the canoe Ray built.  Such a canoe is a piece of art, but it went with us down the Missouri.

With the flood gates partially open the Missouri was carrying about as much water as it could without flooding.  Having spent so many winters in the desert it seemed strange to see so much water headed toward the gulf.  Every sandbar was under water.  An old song talks about the wide Missouri.  It is wide and about an inch deep in many places.

The 2011 flood changed the course of the river in many places.  The Knife River used to leave Stanton and go south, but now most of it seems to go north for a short distance.  Since the water in the River comes from the bottom of the lake it is very cold, but the fish like it.

Another day, lets see who Trump will trash today.

Summer days

The gang is gathered around the kitchen.  What will we do today?  If we get organized it may be down a trip down the Missouri on kayaks.  The way this group moves we may never get going. 

Kadizzle was happy the Bismarck Tribune published his letter criticizing representative Kelly Armstrong.  Armstrong has become another hopeless lickspittle for Trump.  North Dakota is cursed with elected officials happy to exploit the uninformed poorly educated deplorables  in North Dakota.

Now to the local deplorables.  Kadizzle has had a jihad against the collectors of junk cars in Hazen.  Unfortunately one of these deplorables lives up the street.  On a typical day they have three boats, two junked pick up trucks, a junked car, a camper, and other miscellaneous trash in their yard.  Another neighbor argued to the city commission that in a small town one should be able to do as they wish in regard to collecting junk.  Sadly the city commission seemed receptive to the idea that your yard is your kingdom and the hell with the zoning laws.

Pitch him in the lake

Yesterday we pitched Bill Butcher in the lake for the last time. Old Sailors gathered at the marina in Garrison to sing, eat, tell stories, and put Captain Bill's ashes in the lake.  Rick pointed out that since the lake ultimately drains into the ocean Bill may have a long voyage.

Kadizzle's little granddaughter is visiting and as usual Kadizzle is captivated by her demands.  Omar if you read this Kadizzle must point out that Sylvie now knows the song we sang with your grandsons.  That is the song with the chorus " And that make me and it's plain to see an idiot I suppose".   Now, like your grandsons Sylvie is reminding me I am an idiot I suppose.

Seeing all the old sailors was fun, but we are all old and shot up.  Seemed a bit strange to gather in the old room where so many races were planned and argued about.  With some luck a new generation of sailors will emerge on the lake.

Summer is buzzing by and we have done little in the way of travel.  With the mother of all bathroom projects almost complete it may be time to head out for some fun.

Rich once more

The lease man called yesterday.  Pizza well number two is another fizzler.  Kadizzle sold his entire interest which was one eight of one 32 of a circle about 500 ft in diameter.  The lease man wanted to pay 100 dollars, but Kadizzle got him up to two hundred.   So Pizza well number 2 was really just a candy bar well. 

The oil and gas situation in West Virginia is insane.  After generations mineral rights get divided into such tiny fractions they are worthless.  The land man said Kadizzle owned one 256 of less than an acre. 

Now to Trump. Total insanity.  When you think Kevin Cramer is about as bad as it gets up pops his little buddy Kelly Armstrong.  Kelly took Cramer's place as our congressman.   Kelly is a knight for Trump.  Instead of having an once of morality Armstrong stands by the bully and chants the cult song.  North Dakota could not have a worse delegation of Trump lickspittles. 

Kadizzle watched the Mueller hearing for awhile yesterday.  No sane person could help but conclude Trump obstructed justice, but his cult members said everyone was just picking on the honorable orange man.

Summer of change

It is a different summer with no sailboat.  One big change is bringing the house up to par.  The mother of all bathroom projects is near completion and soon we will have to pay for the work.  One thing that happens when you get old is the cost of everything is astounding.  As a kid we could fish a big 7 UP bottle out of the hedge and get a nickel.  Ten cents would buy a nice Hersey bar.  Movies were fifty cents,  swimming was thirty five cents.  Yesterday Kadizzle took Sylvie swimming and it was five dollars per person. Now this all works if wages and inflation work together, but the rich stole everything and wages have not kept up with inflation.

Besides the bathroom the house painting is also eating our lunch.  One more day of painting may do it.  With cedar siding we are approaching the last time we can paint and not replace the aging wood.

Now for the puzzle.  Kadizzle sits here with periodic stabbing pains in his head.  Yesterday Kadizzle went to the doctor who could find nothing wrong.  Kadizzle and the doctor suspect some sort of muscle problem where the skull connects to the the shoulders.  Actually the pain is behind the left ear.  This morning Kadizzle wondered if it might be something from a tick bite.  The pain comes and goes, but it is a sharp pain.  Thought maybe some morning coffee would help, but not making much difference.

Too much time has been spent trying to solve some of the mysteries around Kadizzles vast oil and gas holdings.  Hoping for another pizza well Kadizzle has delved into county court house records.  Now the historical search of records has become fascinating.  You can dig up a lot of information once you understand how to search court house records.  Since you can do it from your computer that changes everything.  Kadizzle looked up his own birth certificate.  It seem to imply that Kadizzle was born a month later than he was actually born, but it was a month later when the birth was verified.  With such an important birth surely it would take at least a month to verify.

Sylvie is here

Kadizzle gets to see his first grandchild today, the amazing Sylvie.  She is excited to come to North Dakota to go to Triangle Y Camp.   We get to see her for a day before she goes to camp.  She is a ball of fire in every sense so listen up Grandpa is going to brag.  She is an excellent athlete, scholar, and artist.  She is my partner in crime.  We have a lot of fun together.

The house is about 80% painted.  With the ladder fully extended Kadizzle stood at the top in a precarious position trying to reach a difficult place.  The damn phone rings.  After taking off my gloves full of paint and fishing the phone from my pocket I manage to answer.  Good news I won several million dollars.  With fake glee I respond.  Now the caller that has some sort of device disguising his voice tells me I do have to pay a delivery fee.  I had no clue it cost $391 to deliver two million dollars.  It must be heavier than I thought. The man asked if I was home and I assured him I was.  The next question was " Do you have 391 dollars to pay the fee.  I answered " Yes, I have it right here in my pocket".   The scammer then said " You are fooling with me" and hung up.  What an odd comment from a con man.  This is the second time in a few weeks I have won millions.  The next time they call I am going to ask if I can just come get the money to avoid the delivery charge.

Now I am sure there are Trump supporters out there who think Kadizzle is a fool because he will not pay $391 to have two million delivered.  Remember Trump gang how Donald is putting your tax breaks on the national debt credit card.  I love your Trumpers, but you need to do some math review and watch a few movies about con men. You might also study some Hitler history.

Kadizzle becomes a land man

Somehow or other my father became a land man.  This story emanates from things my father did.  We called my father " Old Gold" because you could rely on him to do strange things.  One of his bizarre sports was buying up odds and ends of property at tax auctions.  Since Old Gold has been dead for over thirty years one would think is estate would be settled.  Not the case.  A few years back Kadizzle found out he had inherited mineral rights he never knew he had.  The gusher came in and as the man promised we get a pizza a month so far.  Kadizzle's interest in the property is so small that the man who leased it said we could probably get a pizza or a salad every month from the proceeds.  Unfortunately he was right. 

A couple days ago Kadizzle was contacted by another land leaser.  Again we want to strike it rich.  This time we apparently have an interest in an existing well.  Old Gold was very good at investing in dry holes.

Kadizzle set out to find out how he could have an interest in a well.  This meant that Kadizzle had to search the records of Ritchie County West Virginia.  Now you can do this on line.  Figuring out who owns what is no easy job at a county court house.  Gradually Kadizzle thinks he figured out how he ended up owning an interest in a well.  It is a long convoluted story, but Kadizzle will give it a quick try.

Back on the brush farm where we spent the summers there was an old school house at one time.  One day a sudden insight came to Old Gold.  Old Gold realized that after so many years if a school was abandoned the property went back to the original owner.  Old Gold had about 400 acres of worthless timberland on Cains Run.  He owned none of the mineral rights, but aha, the school meant he did own the mineral rights for one acre.  Since he was indirectly in the Oil and Gas business he finagled an oil company to drill a gas well on that one acre.  It was a mediocre well, but it did provide him with some income.

Old Gold had attended two years of law school so he did know something about leases, land titles and so on. 

Researching the records in Ritchie County Kadizzle discovered that the original lease of the one acre only allowed the drillers to go down so far.  Everything below that was kept by Old Gold. 

So here we are in 2019 and modern fracking wants to go down to the Marsalis Shale.  Putting it all together it seems probably that some Oil and Gas company wants to drill that well farther down.  Now if this all works out Kadizzle may have another pizza well.  Since Kadizzle's first experience drilling for pizza Kadizzle has learned to be a better negotiator.  Before we sign a lease this time Kadizzle will demand a soft drink to be included with the pizza.  As things usually turn out a well will be drilled and be a gusher on the day Kadizzle dies.

Once upon a Time

An incident just occurred to me that reminded me of something long ago and far away.  I was speaking to the carpenter working on out bathroom.  I wanted to tell him some private instructions Mrs. Kadizzle was not to know about. In the process Kadizzle realized Mrs. had silently walked up behind me. I did not know she was listening.

This could be a long story.  Years ago when I worked at the Glenharold mine I was driving down the haul road.  I looked over and saw an eagle hanging upside down from a leg trap. It was not on mine property, but on the adjacent land.  It was a very dramatic picture. I contacted a newspaper reporter friend of mine, and she took a picture and did a story. The picture eventually made it to Audubon Magazine.

The whole thing turned into a great kerfuffle.  The public service commission got involved and claimed it was the duty of the mine to report to them anything that happened withing three miles of the mine.  This was absurd the mine had nothing to do with it.  It turned out a coyote trapper had illegally set traps near a dead cow carcass. The fine was $25,000.

The reclamation engineer at the mine was all upset by the attack of the public service commission.  So good old John who was all for John and no one else went to the man in the top position at the mine and tried to get Kadizzle fired for making the incident public. None of this made any sense. Kadizzle thought he was fighting for the environment.

As circumstance would have it Kadizzle quietly walked into the mine superintendents office as John was suggesting Kadizzle be fired.  John had no idea Kadizzle was behind him as he made his ridiculous case.  Eventually he turned around very embarrassed.

John had a reputation for being a self centered asshole. This nailed it. His job was to restore the mine and protect the environment. Most of the time he was supposed to be doing his job he was managing his farmland over the phone and being paid for it by the coal company.  Strangely Kadizzle has dreampt for years about his feud with John.  It was common knowledge that John was a back stabber.

Well live and learn.

Russian Numbers back up.

Checked the Kadizzle Blog stats today.  Glad to see the Russians back.  I want to personally thank each of the 262 Russians checking in on the Kadizzle Blog.  I hope it give you some ideas to help Trump.  If you send Kadizzle your name and address Kadizzle will send you a tin foil lined Trump hat. The Russian version says " Make American Great Again with Putin's help".  No other country comes close to our support from Russia.  The Ukraine only has 42 people getting up to date with Kadizzle.  Sad to see so many other countries in single digits.  I know I accused the Russians of being hackers, but apparently you have forgiven me, and of course I forgave you just like Trump did. 

Calm

Old Kadizzle got up with his new old body.  Moving the lumbering beast out of bed one realizes the balance is not what it used to be.  It is 5:30 A. M. and the thought of coffee is enticing.  This time of day is remarkably peaceful.  Just the quiet hum of the refrigerator, the sun struggling to get airborne.

Gradually the traffic noise will increase.  The simple dingers with loud vehichles will wake up and pollute the air with their advertisement they are idiots.  Trumpster will wake up and tell everyone to go back to their own country.  He better hope the Indians don't enforce his rule.

So this is about the first time in 35 years Kadizzle is not on the week long cruise.  The spell checker must be asleep.  I spelled week, and it says I spelled it wrong.  The google says I am right.  Back to the sail.  Every year about ten boats head down the lake for a week.  So by now they should be at least past Indian hills.

Waking up on the lake is peaceful.  Each sailor pops out of their hatch like a prairie dog in the morning. Some of the prairie dogs take longer than others.  The amount of drink the nigh before may have something to do with it.

Unfortunately the house did not finish painting itself last night.  The odds are poor Kadizzle will grab a paint brush and advance the line of new paint around the house.  Omar is over in Europe somewhere trying to undo the harm Trump has done.  Omar is surely showing the Europeans all Americans are not idiots. Of course we do send a lot of idiots abroad.  We have a special plane and a special idiot we demo worldwide.

Kadizzle spread all his free fertilizer on the yard and guess what happened?  Yup, the damn grass grew.  Now one more task.  Somehow it seems insane. Get the fertilizer with nitrogen.  Put it on the yard, cut the yard, haul the nitrogen to the dump, then get some more nitrogen to put on the grass.

This reminds Kadizzle of an old girlfriend that lived with some horses.  Her family had a horse manure business. They put hay in the front of the horse and sold the manure that came out the back.  It was very labor intensive because you had to care so much for the manure machines, but it gave them all something to do.

Free at Last

Nice to see a Kadizzle fan at the gas station.  Hope you had a good pontoon ride at the lake.  Never saw so many boats at the State Park.  Fishing boat trailers crammed everywhere.,

Well we got the Jeannie Rose launched.  That was the old name on the good ship.  I want to change to the Tricky Nickey,  since Nick is the new owner.  Kadizzle worked harder on that boat than on his own. We sanded so much toxic paint, and lead that more than likely we will die in a week or two.

Launching a sailboat is no simple matter.  You need a forty foot extension to get it out in the water far enough to come off the trailer.  Nick's dad Joe drove the truck that backed the boat in.  Apparently Joe did not get the game plan.  The idea was to back in just far enough for the engine to get water, start the engine, then proceed.  Joe backed in too far too fast and there went poor Nick alone and clueless with an engine that would not start.  After some fiddling he got it started.  Kadizzle had told Nick stories about launching boats that immediately started to sink.  Nick went below and came back up reporting indeed water was coming in.  Kadizzle went below to solve the mystery.  It was a small amount and Kadizzle correctly figured it was water that had been in the boat already just moving about now that the boat was really level. No problem.  Nick and Kadizzle had a nice little sail and it looks like Nick will be the happy owner of a half decent boat.  It was a lot of fun and hard work getting a young guy sailing. 

Long ago Kadizzle reached the point where it is more fun to make a new pheasant hunter than be one, and the same holds with making a new sailor.  Hopefully Kadizzle can teach Nick some of the finer points of sailing.

Trump Fatigue

Winkie just insisted Kadizzle read a NYT article about trump and his media summit.  Trump just wears you out.  Trump kind of reminds me of watching the monkeys at Wheeling Park as a kid.  Watching them jumping around non stop just seemed too much.  Trump's monkey show is non stop.  One minute he is molesting 14 year old girls, then a few lies, then a love letter from a dictator.  It is like being in a room that is on fire and nobody notices.

Well this gets Kadizzle to a related story.  Kadizzle once saw a person on fire, and the person did not know it.  Somehow this relates to Trump.  Once upon a time long ago and far away Kadizzle was at a party.  For some strange reason there were a lot of people in a large bathroom in the house having some kind of chat.  The woman host was using the toilet as a seat.  On the back of the commode was a candle.  Mrs Host had fairly long blond hair witch she managed to set on fire by leaning back into the candle.  Kadizzle was sitting close to the burning woman.  Strangely she was not aware her hair was on fire, but Kadizzle was.   As a good safety person Kadizzle immediately slapped the fire out on the back of her head.  At times there must have been a lot of people who would have enjoyed slapping this woman.  Very surprised about Kadizzle slapping her it took her what seemed a long time to figure out Kadizzle was putting out a fire.  All ended well, but there most be some lesson in this story.  Somehow it relates to Trump.  Our country is on fire with stupidity, no one seems to realize it.  Someone needs a good slap to put the fire out.

Well soon it will be up to the lake and with some luck the damn boat will get painted and put in the water.  Everyone has heard the expression " like watching paint dry".  The paint we are going to put on the boat is like magic. It drys instantly, and totally changes that expression.  Since the paint drys so fast it makes painting a whole different game.  The paint is very expensive, about one hundred dollars per gallon.  Kadizzle used to use the paint on his boat.  The adds for the paint said it would make your boat go 20% faster.  This seemed hard to believe, but after many years Kadizzle did come to believe in the paint which contains teflon.  Now put this in perspective.  Top speed on most sailboats is something like six or seven miles per hour.  So a 20% increase would not throw you out of your seat.  If you actually went one mile per hour faster if would be a miracle, but sailboat racing is like snail racing. The snails enjoy it and are proud to win.

Old Farts forget

Somewhere in the back of the mind Kadizzle thinks he may have written about this before, but the beauty of being senile is it does not matter.

One day Kadizzle wondered how is it that the same side of the moon always faces the Earth.  With unbounded curiosity Kadizzle looked into the matter. It turns out the science that Republicans don't believe in includes gravity.  Gravity always works a lot of dead people can attest to this.  Omar could be a witness he is a pilot and the first lesson at pilot school is gravity always works. This also is mentioned strongly in the part of the class about having enough fuel.

Now back to the moon.  The center of gravity on the moon is not in the center.  What?  The center of gravity for the moon is determined by the Earth.  As a fat guy Kadizzle can attest to this.  With the Earth tugging on the moon the center of gravity is pulled toward the Earth. Do to the laws of physic the Earth is pulled toward the moon, which means the center of gravity for the Earth is slightly off on the side the moon is on.  Now to the amazing part, it aint over til the fat lady  sings.  The moon's spinning slowed down because of the Earth's tug and finally synced with the Earth.  What next? Well the Earth is still adjusting the moon.  Slowly the Earth will put the moon into a geostationary orbit.  For those not keeping up that means the moon will stay in the same spot above the Earth.  Now the fun part. When this happens millions of years from now you will only be able to see the moon from one side of the Earth.  Of course this can all only happen if Republicans acknowledge the effect of gravity.  Children in the future who survive climate change will say  " Dad I want to go to the other side of the planet and see the moon".  Dad will say, " Son we don't have any gas, the Republicans pissed it away back in the old days when they put their red hats on".   Johnny might grow up and never get to see the moon. 

This lesson has been brought to you by the people who still believe in science, gravity, and reality.  If you are a Republican reading this just put it down as fake news.

Busting through cults

It is hopeless. Getting through to a cult member is like busting concrete with rebar.  The Trump Cult is a perfect example. The cult members don't care if he lies, rapes ten year olds, or steals from old ladies, they love him just the same.  Religion works in the same vein.  Even though you never saw anyone walk on water, split open a sea, or rise from the dead, you believe.  Why?  Well it makes you feel good is the only explanation.  Well you can feel good getting robbed by a time share salesman, buying something useless on a TV add, or putting your money in a slot machine to get robbed.

Everyone live in their own special world.  Science seems to indicate our planet is in peril. So what the coffee is good and it looks like lunch will be good.  One of the best things about being 70 is the finish line cannot be that far off.  The oceans can only rise so much before Kadizzle is drawn up to the lord. However, it is distressing to think of the mess left for the children and grandchildren. 

Most likely no close relatives read this crap so we can launch into a tale of woe.  A close relative inherited a large sum of money.  In a relatively short time the money went up in flames and now that gang is living on the finical edge.  What does this have to do with anything?  Here we go.  The planet Earth is our inheritance. The planet has plenty of water, air, and damn near everything you need to make June Berry Pie.   What do humans do with this abundance.  Of course we squander it.  Republicans believe we are entitled to get and waste as much as humanly possible.   How's that workin for you?  There are more cars than grains of sand, everything comes in a plastic bottle,  we have coal fired slot machines. 

Pet peeve time.   Rumblers, Godamn rumblers.  This grouchy old man hates rumblers.  What in the hell are rumblers?  Once your mind turns to fudge you have several choices.  First, you can vote Republican, but if your so simple you don't even vote what is the second choice?  That brings us to rumblers.  You can get a car, a truck, a motorcycle, or maybe just a boom box and make noise.  There is something about low IQ and noise that goes together.  Simple minded people like to make noise.  The simple minded like to drive nowhere and make a lot of noise getting there.  Hot weather brings out the rumblers.  Kadizzle was down at Rita's sewing shop the other day and another category of rumbler was there.  It was a dolt with a noisy boat. Boat rumblers are some of the worst.  You are on the lake and all is well with the world. Peacefully you sail along, and then a mentally challenged rumbler with some goofy boat makes noise you can hear for miles on the lake. The rumbler bragged his noise machine used 250 gallons of gas a weekend.  Imagine that much gas turned into noise. 

Perhaps Kadizzle has mentioned it in the past, but he has always wanted to sell a CD to rumblers.  The CD would have a nice selection of noises.  The silly rumbler could put on headphones and listen to any kind of stupid noise he wanted without disturbing the universe.   Imagine a rumbler going down the highway on is big Harley with headphones on listening to motorcycle noises.  Somehow rumblers equate masculinity to making a loud noise.  God bless the rumblers and may they all become deaf.

Like every scrounge

What would you do if you caught one?  What would you do if Colonel Klink offered to give you a couple nice pieces of marble?  Of course you could not resist.  So now what do you do with some junk marble?  Kadizzle made an apron for the facet in front of the house.  Winky was not too impressed.  Still there are several pieces of marble left.  Perhaps with the old copula we can make a miniature Buddhist temple.

So another day spun around and the sun is heading down.  The mother of all bathroom projects is well into the third week and my wallet.

Stroupini is working away on his old man refuge.  The burn for a motorcycle has gone on.  Stroupini suggested Kadizzle buy one in Canada.  For a little bit that seemed like a great idea.  It seem one can be purchased there considerably cheaper.  Wait, it don't work.  Getting it across the border is harder than crossing the Rio Grande.  So forget it.

Brother in law Ned weighted in on buying the KTM 1090.  Ned suggested updating the will and having someone video Kadizzle mounting the beast.

Summer is slipping by and we are getting sores on our butts from sitting around.  Winky is in the final stages of healing hopefully.

The dingers up the street are going to the slumming Olympics.  After five years with the junk truck in their driveway they came up with the ingenious idea to move it across the street.  So there the piece of junk sits with no license.  It will test the new abandoned vehicle ordinance the city should soon pass. 

Sometimes when someone gives you something it is more of a curse than a blessing.  Since we are tying to sell the old homestead it would be nice to have green grass. This can be accomplished by pumping out of the creek. Rodger gave Kadizzle a pump. So now getting the old sprinkler system going will be an engineering feat. Winky of course is opposed to the whole idea.  That means every move will face server criticism. God willing we may work on that tomorrow.

Sore Crotch from fence sitting

On again, off again, Kadizzle just cannot pull the trigger.  Kadizzle has been dreaming of buying an adventure motorcycle for some time.  As usual a good deal may have come along, but, but, but, so it goes.  Where will we keep the damn thing?  Will it really get used?  Will Kadizzle get seriously killed? So here we go one more time.  A guy in Fargo has a KTM for sale and he said if Kadizzle shows up with 9.5 k cash he can have it.   Brother in law is a cycle expert and Kadizzle is waiting for the opinion.   The biggest problem is all these bikes sit too high for a fat old chubby guy.  The KTM gets wonderful reviews and Kadizzle wants nothing but the best to fall on top of him on some remote mountain location.

Shanika, Stroupini, and Kadizzle took a long cycle ride on back roads and section lines yesterday.  At one point we came across a dirt bike race track.  It was fake locked so we got on the course and did a couple rounds.  As a bunch of old flummpers we did not get air borne.   The track showed how really incompetent we are.   The trip was like a bit of tick collecting,  and poison ivy rubbing.  Some sore butts resulted from the foray. 

 I saw this man showing his son a man with a Trump Make American Great hat on.   Kadizzle believes we have a hard core of 28% idiots in the country.  For some strange reason this figure keeps popping up.  The bad news is the figure may be higher.  The hard core idiots cannot figure out Trump lies, cheats, steals.  The hard core idiots keep Fox in business. 

Asia comes to the back deck

Morning painting the house, then to Stroupini's house to put up a light fixture, then work on Stroupini's old windows.  Stroupini is fixing up a house in town so he can be an old goat in town.  Shanika showed up and helped paint at Stroupini's house.  The big dicision came to use Shanika's great invention the Wokinator.  The Wokinator is a propan fired Wok in a stainless steel table.  Kadizzle took old Shanika to the grocery store and bought him all the ingredients for a great meal. Shanik loves to cook, so for hours he diced and sliced.  To go with the food a nice variety of drinks were purchased.  Finally the Wok was set aflame and the sizzling sound of shrimp, fried rice, and vegetables came to life.  Ah, it was delicious, and a good time with old friends. Shanik made sure Kadizzle bought some desert.  Kadizzle bought vanilla ice cream to make the Mrs. happy.  Shanik sent Stroupini off on his motorcycle to get some Heath Bars at the gas station.  The bars were broken into small pieces and sprinkled on the ice cream for a perfect grand finally.

Now Kadizzle sits here a shameless balloon shaped man contemplating how he might shrink down.  Last night a dream came where Kadizzle had trouble getting through a door.  The dream fairy is telling Kadizzle something.  Hopefully the gang will take a nice motorcycle ride somewhere today.  Such aerobic behavior will surely erase the ice cream.

We are the greatest

Kadizzle made a trip with Stroupini to Bismarck yesterday to buy a light fixture for his garage.  As circumstance would have it Kadizzle ran into a clerk he had met the last time he was at Lowes.  The last time in the flower shop Kadizzle engaged the woman from Cameroon in a brief conversation about our pathetic president.  Seeing the woman again Kadizzle asked her how she liked living in the United States.  As a prejudiced American Kadizzle expected the woman to say she loved it.  Nope, she said she hated it.  Why? Kadizzle asked.  Too many rules and too many people in jail.

This brings us to your simple minded typical Republican dolt.  American is always the best, the greatest and we have a president that is wonderful biggly.  That all works fine unless you actually do some research.  If you dig into the facts things don't look so good.  Sure if you are rich in America, or any country for that matter things are pretty good.  However, the statistics put us behind in just about everything.  You name it, life expectancy, health care, education, happiness, and on it goes.  We live in a delusional country.  We believe a whole lot of stuff that just plain aint true.  What better to symbolize our delusion than the Donald?

So here we sit with the rich walking off with everything, the roads crumbling, the bridges falling, kids failing, and we are as happy as can be.  We have Fox News, and even local right wing cheerleaders.  They tell us we are the best.  Cheerleaders for a losing team.  When the lady from Cameroon tells you your country sucks, maybe it is time to listen to something other than Fox.

Can he be that stupid?

As usual Kadizzle started the morning update.  Sitting there with coffee Kadizzle read Trump said Revolutionary War soldiers took over the airports.  Giving Trump the benefit of the doubt, maybe he meant seaports. However, when you look at the big picture maybe Trump is that stupid.  He brags about nice letters from dictators, he lies constantly as if no one would notice.  Trump seems to be totally unaware that in the modern world people record what you say.  When the rest of us see the obvious evidence that the journalist was murdered Trump doesn't.  So we live with a president who goes in and out of reality. 

Watching the simple minded is always amusing.  Perhaps the audience watching Trump was as ignorant of history as the old Trumpster.  Maybe half the people in the crowd with the red dunce hats on thought there were airports in the time of the countries birth.  In Trumps world if he says it, it is true, and that is good enough for the Red Hats.  Of course the fake news would say there were no airports in George Washington's time just to make Trump look bad. 

Just think about it.  Think of the silly religious people who believe they will be god of their own planet when they die.  Religion clearly demonstrates massive numbers of people can believe incredible lies.  Trump has show how effective lying can be.  Trump knows the basic principle of lying, tell people what they want to hear. This car was driven by a little old lady only to church.  We are the best, and everything is working out biggly.

Although Kadizzle has told this story many times, it sums up Trump and his gang.  A woman back in the hills in West Virginia had a husband that went out in the front yard every morning and flapped his arms and made noises like a chicken.  The neighbor lady complained to the odd man's wife about his strange antics.  The chicken man's wife said " He aint hurtin no one, and besides we could use the eggs".  This is the classic answer of a Trump supporter.  Besides we could use the tax breaks his supporters say when Trump crows.

Today's word is Bufadora

Long ago Kadizzle was listening to a song he liked. The song had the word bufadora.  It took a long time to figure out what the singer was saying, but finally the riddle was cracked. If you want to see a bufadora watch the video below.

La Bufadora Ensenada, Baja California Mexico

3:30 A.M.

Kadizzle awakened at an early hour.  The mind was active even though defective.  Some very strange dreams buzzed through the organ on top of the shoulders.  Kadizzle has been assisting a friend with some plumbing.  The plumbing problem is in a very strange house.  Someone built the house many years ago.  The original people thought they were embracing modern times and decided to put the house on a concrete slab, no basement.  All the plumbing would run through the slab including the hot water heating system in the pipes encased in concrete.  Then some magic happened.  The concrete slab with all the pipes cracked when it settled.  All the pipes broke.  Now how do you you get water to the bathroom, the kitchen, and all over the house?  This is where the nightmare starts.  Some genius decided to run all the plumbing up into the attic and down to where it was needed.  The net result is a house with plastic lines running in the most unusual places.  Pipes in closets,  and pipes coming down from the attic everywhere.  This is North Dakota and pipes in the attic could get mighty cold.  Now with the heating system in the floor destroyed the house still had to be heated.  Someone installed radiant electric heaters all over the place up on the top of the walls all over the house.  These heaters must not have worked very well or more heat was needed, or they were just too damn expensive.  So the last people in the house kept a wood fire in a decretive fire place burning all the time.  The radiant  heaters drew the smoke up in the rooms and coated the ceiling with soot.  There must have been another wood fireplace in the garage that also helped coat everything with soot.

For some strange reason the thought came to Kadizzle in the middle of the night that a one time owner of the nightmare house was the man in charge of maintenance at the mine where Kadizzle had worked.  Now the puzzle began.  The man who Kadizzle knew well was an electrician and certainly knew how to do all kinds of maintenance.  It was very puzzling that a well qualified person in all areas of mechanical things would live in a Rube Goldberg set up.  So this will be the topic for an investigation today.  Was that actually the house where ex maintenance person lived?

Just burning up time waiting for the sun to rise, so how about a little rant?  Insanity is rampant in this country.  We are rotting from the top down.  Trump and his parade shows the rot.  Trump features himself as a dictator.  Dictators love big military shows of might.  Trump is going to embarrass the entire country putting on a Nazi display of marching soldiers.  Everything the United States stands for will be upturned when The Donald gives his speech in front of tanks, planes, and guns.   This is not the country we want to live in.  The flag wavers, the thoughts and prayers people, and the fundamentalist along with the NRA guys will love it.  We have fallen prey to idiocy, Fox News, and the Republican Party.  God bless America, and remember God chose Trump for president, so God can make big mistakes.

Whistlin' Bungholes

Someone had this on facebook. Kadizzle never knew there was a fire works called a whistlin bunghole. Apparently it was produced to honor Trump.  It was great that China made a special fire cracker for Trump to celebrate the 4th. 

Bohunks

The mind wandered back to the days when Kadizzle was a kid.  Our grade school had a mix of kids from the well off neighbor hoods and from Gregsville.  Greggsville was a poorer section of town.  Looking back we were mean.  Kadizzle lived in the nice area, and often the kids from Greggsville were referred to as bohunks.  Kadizzle never really knew what a bohunk was so this morning Kadizzle looked it up.  There is such a word.  A bohunk was a low class laborer from southern Europe.  In retrospect Kadizzle feels bad about how those kids were treated.  They were nice kids.  Kadizzle remembers Mary, Mary Ellen, Henry, Arthur, and the Yees.  The Yees were Chinese.  The Yees drank chicken blood and ran a laundry.  Pretty little Mary had polio which crippled one of her legs.  Henry and Arthur were brothers and grew up to be grave diggers.  They like to say " we throw dirt in the faces of the best people in town".  Their sister Mary Ellen had some mental problems.  The social safety net in those days was pretty poor.  In the fifth grade Kadizzle remembers having Mary Ellen, and another mentally disturbed girl from the children's home in class.  It seems no special attention was provided to these kids with serious problems.  They were just put in school as a place to keep them.  The story was Margie had seen her parents burnt to death in a fire.  All of this comes to mind as we see how Trump has no regard for the poor and underprivileged.  As a young person maybe it is forgivable to be an unsympathetic person.  But we have a child for president and we should not tolerate what he does.

Rolling Along

Our first summer without a sailboat is slowly progressing.  The Kadizzle's are enjoying the back yard. Mrs. Kadizzle is obsessed with the yard and gardening.  The yard is pruned, and the weeds are in retreat in the garden.  Mrs Kadizzle constantly complains about how much work the garden is, but will not give it up.

The little berg of Hazen seems peaceful.  The city commissioners have finally acted on a request Kadizzle made five years ago.  The impossible has reached the point of almost being possible. Kadizzle asked the city to enforce the junked car ordinance.  After five . years the city has revised the ordinance and may actually enforce the new ordinance.

This brings to mind the slow races Kadizzle used to have in the back yard.  When the little Kadizzles were growing up there was a bunch of neighborhood kids that had to be entertained.  Kadizzle had to constantly challenge them with races and games.  One day the brilliant idea of a slow race came to mind.  Here is how a slow race works.  You line up the kids and explain to them they have to race around the garden.  The last one to make it around the garden is the winner.  A slow race is fun to watch.  The only rule is you have to make some visible movement.  The whole thing throws the kids minds into a tizzy.  The concept of being last and going slow they just cannot grasp.  Kadizzle gets to play the part of the announcer by declaring who is doing the best job of going nowhere.  The real beauty of a slow race is it take so long.  In fact most slow races never end and have to be declared over before the first furlong.

Politicians seem to be excellent slow racers.  What county can be last to have decent health care?  What county can be last to quit endless wars?  When it comes to slow racing Republicans are the winners. They cheat by actually going backwards.   Strange non of the kids ever thought of the Republican strategy.   It is actually a good strategy.  If you slow race backwards you are getting to the finish line quicker.  Since the start is the finish maybe Trump and his gang are on to something.  You back up slowly, then move forward slowly and you win.  Hmm, this all makes sense now.  Of course appointing hopeless people to every position helps immensely with backing up.  North Dakota seems to be adopting the slow race technique.  Measure one moves us forward, and the Republican move it backwards.

Honoring History

Kadizzle started in the coal industry as an underground miner.  Somewhere around the age of 18 or 19 Kadizzle was employed as an underground coal miner in West Virginia.  At some point Kadizzle had a job shooting the bottom.  On midnight shift Kadizzle would drill holes all night with a jackhammer.  The idea was to blast about three feet of rock under the coal seam to provide more height for the mainline underground.  The locomotives ran on the mainline and hauled the coal out of the mine.  Kadizzle can remember the first time he heard the call " fire in the hole".   Before a blast was set off the mining custom was to yell as loud as you could  " fire in the hole".   This was to warn anyone nearby a blast was about to occur. 

So this morning as Kadizzle sat on the thrown for the morning constitutional he decided to honor the old mining tradition and yelled " fire in the hole "  at the appropriate time.  No one was hurt.

Let the game begin

The game is on.  Last night the insurance companies ran an add with the evening news denouncing one payer health care.  Ya, sure, ya betcha.  The Republican game will be to call all Democrats socialist.  Kadizzle wants to fight back, call the Republicans what they are fascist. Republicans know how to manipulate the simple minded.  Main thing is to scare the simple mined.  The simple minded cannot distinguish between various ideas.  Anything that is not pure bred capitalism for the one percent is communism in the world of the simple.  The simple have no clue they participate in socialism every day.  Look how many cooperatives thrive in North Dakota.  Cenex, is a socialist organization, so are the not for profit hospitals, insurance companies, credit unions, Basin Electric, and West River Telecommunications.  Socialism is everywhere.  What about the post office and the police department, the fire department.  Sadly fascism is also widespread by the Republicans.  We need some dictionaries put in hotels with the Bibles. 

Fascism (/ˈfæʃɪzəm/) is a form of radical right-wing, authoritarian ultranationalism characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition and strong regimentation of society and of the economy which came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe.