Around it spins

 It has happened once more, the sun came up.  The house looks like it has been hit by a tornado on the inside.  The moving out process chugs along.  Kadizzle is not attached to things, but Winky has treasures.  The treasures are a pain.  Somehow getting things out of the house we have lived in for so long means it is real.  We have some of the best neighbors in the world.  Dallas and Marilyn invited over for dinner the other night.  When you eat at the old grocer's house and he is married to a good cook lookout.   When Dallas cooks steak you know it will be a belly buster, and Marilyn made some special peaches baked with blue cheese.  Umm, umm, umm.  Of course there was slap your granny pie. 

Bob lives up the street.  Bob has a collection of tools, nails, and you name it in his basement.  Over the years Kadizzle has transferred all his excess to Bob's basement. Bob puts it in an orderly fashion. Now when you need something you just call Bob's hardware.  The Kadizzle's were original settlers in this neighborhood. Some great people came and went. In fact we are the only original settlers when you think about it. 

This morning Kadizzle is thinking about how he could get back to New Zealand.  They will not let you in. New Zealand is virus free.  Winky would love it, but we cannot get in. 

The biggest headache in this moving process is the wall hangings.  For some strange reason the Kadizzles are incapable of packaging the blasted art work.  So Cheech insisted on hiring packers.  The professionals will be paid an outrages sum to stuff pictures in a box that we could do for free, but it will create some kind of strange comfort for Winky.  

On the side Winky is hankering for a new fifth wheel camper.  That is a read undertaking.  If we get one we will have to travel to Idaho, or Arizona.  Dealing with those guys over the phone is a treat as they try to explain to you that you need to just give them the Earth Module on trade.  Going broke the old fashioned way is fun. 

Trickle Up

Some friends took the Kadizzles out on a boat yesterday to tour the land of the prosperous.  Along the lake people are paying one million to tear down and existing lake home and build one for a few million.  These are the people who refuse to pay their share of taxes and hire Kelly Armstrong, and Kevin Cramer to protect them from the welfare cheats.  Income inequality is on full display at the lake.  One classic case is the poor fellow who built an 11,000 square foot home and cannot find a buyer.  Some little oil orphan will buy it given enough time.  As many lose their homes the Republicans rejoice in the new banana Republic . The Republican tax system makes sure all the bananas go to the top. 

AMERICA WAKE UP - George Carlin - American Dream 2020

Another Day

 Kadizzle slept so hard he had a hard time coming back to life.  What a life to come back to.  The insane clown is still in his circus tent.  Insanity is raining down on our moving project.  The Kadizzle family has never moved since 1976.  Our last move from West Virginia to North Dakota was a joke.  Kadizzle worked for Conoco at the time.  Money was no object for the big oil company and they had a special division that moved people.  Conoco paid about three thousand dollars to move about ten dollars worth of trash.  We had nothing.  The result was a full sized moving van with a pile of cinder blocks, and the most amazing thine a pile of firewood.  Kadizzle did not know Winky was bringing the firewood when the truck pulled into the farmyard in North Dakota.  Also on the truck was a five by five piece of marble we used for a table top.  Now when we need that truck, we are trying to move with a wheelbarrow.   The house is strewn with boxes and fribble frable.  We have rented a storage shed.  

Storage sheds are the bain of the country and say so much about what we have become.  There is almost one storage locker for every home in Hazen.  Storing crap is the new American dream.   The curse of the countryside is steel buildings.  We import giant shiploads of recycled trash from China and store it in metal sheds.  We live by the motto " Someday I am going to need that "  .   Then you die and your kids say" What in the hell did he save that for?"  Sitting over there on the kitchen island is a set of carving knives, a very expensive set we got for our wedding two hundred years ago.  Maybe once we used those knives.  There is so much that was purchased to feel like we were prosperous, but never used.  

Back in the hills

Stroupini and Kadizzle have been learning, and studying hillbilly life. Kadizzle grew up there, so he has some background.  The video posted below has some good hillbilly language.  It is a good primer for what the old hillbillies were like.  Fun to watch if you are bored. 

This is the Last Dam Run of Likker I'll Ever Make (full movie)

Out the door

Moving, what an experience.  Giving away stuff, selling stuff, throwing stuff out.  The real hassle is giving crap to the kids.  Figuring out what they want and how to get it to them is the worst part of the game.  Megan lives in Philadelphia, and Erin is in Denver.  One of the worst things to deal with is a piece of furniture that is somewhat of an art piece.  It is a custom made bar that will be very expensive to get to Philadelphia.  Today Kadizzle will break down and rent a storage shed.  Hate the damn things. They are the curse of our country. When you have so much detris you have to rent an extra garage you and your country have a problem.  We are a nation of accumulators.  Winky and Kadizzle never thought they were bad in that category, but once you start carrying the junk you haven't used for thirty years out the door you understand how much waste there really is in this country.  Kadizzle watched a youtube video on one of those giant container ships.  It carried 18,000 containers.  Imagine how much junk that is in one ship.  That many truckloads of junk headed to our landfills from China. 

The Faithful

Right in front of you Trump says we need to get rid of the post office.  Right in front of you Trump says we need to postpone the election.  You just don't notice.  The faithful are amazing.  In the midst of reality they chose to follow the delusion.  If you want to see it you can.  If you want to see blood coming from the eyes of a statue someone can arrange it.  If you want to see the all time con man of history as a saint, no problem.  Believe, just believe, that is all it takes. 

The placebo effect is amazing.  It reminds old Kadizzle so much of the day he walked out of a Whole Foods grocery story with a friend.  There was a case of water for sale by the door.  The water said it had natural hydrogen in it. Kadizzle asked out loud " Who would buy that stuff".  The friend said " I do". Imagine natural hydrogen, as opposed to artificial hydrogen.  Once you say natural hydrogen, then by implication that means there must be artificial hydrogen.  That is how Trump operates.  Trump tells the cult there are groups out to defeat him and sure enough there are people who fight the idiot everyday.  So those must be the secret groups he has told us about.  Kadizzle is going to go down on main street and say something stupid,  someone will call him an idiot.  No he is a profit.  Kadizzle predicted someone would call him an idiot.  How easy is it to start a nonsensical cult. 

The Gods are angry.  If you give me some money I can talk to the Gods and have them be happier and make it rain.  It didn't work.  You didn't give me enough money.  Just be patient.  See after you gave me more money it finally did rain.  The deep state caused the virus.  Help me fight the deep state.  Send in money so we can get more judges to help make the Deep State illegal.  

Chaos

The decision to sell the homestead has resulted in a swirl of chaos.  Getting rid of over forty years of junk accumulation is a task. The kids will be delighted we pre died.  You know when you die your kids have to get rid of all the crap. Pre dying can solve that problem.  Winky is under a lot of strain getting rid of all the keepsakes.  We are whittling down the stuff.  Sold the push mower, the freezer, and some rummage junk. However, it is never ending. 

Add to this chaos a country that is swamped in ignorance, an insane president leading a cult, and a virus.  That's not enough, how about an economy on the brink of a cliff.  Head spinning.  The Kadizzles forgot how old they are.   Taking on this insanity in the 70s is too much.  Our brains don't know they are living in bodies with high mileage. 

Crumbling, that is the way Kadizzle like to think of it.  Like those old buildings you see sitting on the prairie we are crumbling.  One shingle, one board, at a time the place falls down. 

Well to prove some of this wrong we will get on the electric bikes and buzz through the country in a few minutes.  The bikes will give us the impression we are stronger than we are.   Illusions are what keep us alive.  The Trump cultist have mastered the illusion that Trump is a saint sent by god.   If we all could reach the state of delusion the red hats have we could march in unison over the cliff with a smile. 

John Prine - Summer's End Official Video

Mean Mary on fast banjo - Iron Horse

Mind Boggling

Kadizzle perpetually wonders how people can sit in church and not notice what the preacher is saying.  In the little hamlet of Hazen Kadizzle has found several of the long time preachers to be very liberal in their views, and totally against Trump.  The amazing thing is the people in their churches remain firmly entrenched in the Trump cult.  Kadizzle gets to see both sides of this.  Kadizzle has close friends who are preachers, and Kadizzle is friends with the people they preached to.  Christianity has something for everyone.  If you want slaves Christianity can accommodate you.  Who do you want to hate?  Somehow you can go to church and hate whomever you want.  On the other hand good old Jesus told people to share and love.  A close study of Jesus would seem to indicate he was a socialist.  Let's look at the Bible. There is the Old Testament, The new Testament, and The very new Republican Bible.  Now, you can be greedy, a crook, molest women, and hate everybody and still go to church and feel good about it.  All of this is mind boggling. 

Morning in America

Kadizzle awakened only to realize he is alive for one more day.  The house is scattered with junk as we try to get ready for the final exit.  In the executive suite Kadizzle read the FFR paper Honest Omar sent. Thanks Honest. So the day starts.  Appears to be a nice day with the country in chaos.  Uncle Ben has been giving us disturbing reports from Winky's hometown Richmond, Va.  Meanwhile stupidity rains supreme.  Ignorance and Republican thoughts have the country in the grip of a massive cloud of thoughtlessness.  Kadizzle thinks the train is coming down the tracks.  Ahead may be an incredible economic disruption.  Laying in bed last night it occurred to Kadizzle that the underlying cause of riots in our cities is income inequality.  Look back in history.  When the peasants are driven to the fence they rebel.  What happens when you take a bunch of young people and put them out of work?  They have time on their hands, and no money.  When a country deliberately makes massive numbers of people poor by giving all the money to the rich it is bound to backfire.  That is what history has shown too many times.  Of course we learn nothing.  The greedy rich learn nothing.  In the end the heads of the rich usually come off.  Blinded by their greed they let themselves be killed.

All this makes Kadizzle think of a house up by the lake.  A guy, Honest Omar probably knows must have made a fortune with his aviation business in Bismarck.  With cash burning in his pocket the man built a $3.4 million dollar house.  Now that is a whopper of a lake home in North Dakota.  Kadizzle went o zillow to see the add for the house.  When you look at the rooms of the house you can see the person went insane trying to spend money.  The house has three laundry rooms an indoor pool and indoor hot tub by the pool.  The garage is bigger than the house with three side by side stainless steel sinks to clean the fish.  Although the garage has a big expensive motor home the guy never finished filling it with toys.  Here is  a man obsessed with pissing away money that could have done so much good elsewhere.  The house is 11,000 square feet.  Now the house is on the market for 2.3 million.  For some strange reason the home was built down in a gully and the hill beside the home has caved in a couple times costing hundreds of thousands to correct.  Multiply this idiot by tens of thousands and you see what is wrong with out greed driven society.  Me, me, me, is the new mantra while people are out of work and kids live in rat homes.   Now for a disclaimer.  Kadizzle is probably also guilty by degree.  We live well and have had some nice toys, so we are not unguilty.  What is the job of the government?  A major function of government should be to keep the rich from robbing the poor to too great of an extent.  Slavery was an extreme example of the rich robbing the poor.  Our economic system encourages robbing the poor and exploiting the stupid.  Naturally this leads to a leader like Trump.

Brain Weevils

Kadizzle just returned from a trip to the credit union.  On the way back he ran into an acquaintance.  We had a nice conversation about several topics.  Of course one topic was the virus.  The gentleman prefaced his remark that he was leary of a conspiracy theory, but thought it might have merit. The theory is the Chinese started the virus to destroy our economy.  Our country has reached an unprecedented level of stupidity.  You see it everywhere.  Now, for Kadizzle's own conspiracy theory.

Brain weevils, yup brain weevils.  Brain weevils enter the body through the ear.  The weevils love to feed on the brains of the simple minded. Scientist think the brains of the stupid are easier to chew and digest, and that is why the brain weevils prefer Republicans.  In fact it seems most people who are not Republican do not get brain weevils.  How do they spread? First the brain has to  be weakened.  Fox News and Rush Limbaugh can weaken a brain to the point brain weevils can infest.  Religion also helps.  Now what if you are a fundamentalist and a Republican? You are like horseshit to a fly. The brain weevils can sense you a mile away.  The weevil will lay its eggs in your ear.  Once the larva hatch they head toward your brain.  If they start to chew and find your brain is solid from reading real information, and watching intelligent media, the weevil will either starve of leave to find the juicy fruit of a Trump Republican. Like so many insects brain weevils are attracted to bright colors.  The red hat of an idiot gives the weevil a clue there may be a juicy soft brain under that hat.  People infected with brain weevils appear to be normal. They can shop and drive and do most normal activities, but they are incapable of knowing the truth from fiction and immune to science.  What are the symptoms? A serious infection can be diagnosed simply by asking the person if they voted for Trump. Even gargling Clorox will not cure them.  Infected people are likely to have NRA stickers, or Trump stickers on their car.  A Trump flag in front of a home means a raging infection.  Your best protection is to read real information, and do a lot of logical thinking.  Weevils love a lazy brain. If you think you might have brain weevils take two copper wires and put one wire on each side of your testicles.  Put the other end of the wire in the electrical outlet controlled by the light switch.  Either turn on the light switch yourself, or ask your wife to.  You will be enlightened.  If the cure works you will have a strong desire never to vote for a Republican.

Kelly Armstrong, Kevin Cramer, John Hoeven, come quick, I need more matches.

The Art of Crumbling

Let's start with good news.  Praise be unto Jeeeesus the Earth Module does fit on the new truck.  Bless neighbor Bob.  Bod spent about four hours helping Kadizzle adjust the truck and camper so the two could mate. Maybe they will mate and produce some tiny little campers. 

We are crumbling. Winky and Kadizzle beside each other in bed discussed crumbling.  Like it or not old people crumble and eventually turn into dust or something else.  Our minds don't realize they are living in old bodies that are falling apart. Walk through the forest and you will see old trees crumbling down.  They don't fall apart all at once, but none escape the collapse. 

Some poet said " Go gently into the night".  Hope all this is not too depressing, but such is life.  At some point one has to realize it is time to park the car.  That is just one of the revelations of old age. 

How do you crumble? Maybe you find a nice spot and just sit there watching television.  Occasionally you might visit other crumblers.  These two old crumblers are going to find themselves living in the Earth Module with no home for the foreseeable future? This would not be so bad if the country were not in the grips of a simple minded mentally ill president, and a pandemic.  Perhaps the world is crumbling also. The dinosaurs were wiped out by a comet. A stupidity asteroid has impacted our planet and the dust of ignorance is making it hard to breath. 

Getting rid of all our junk is a major problem.  If you need more fribbles, maybe a dozen coffee cups, or a brand new bottle of wall paper remover call right away and we will throw in endless other junk free.  All that magic stuff that has sat around forever has got to go.  This brings Kadizzle to yesterday.  About thirty five years ago Kadizzle bought a magic telescoping stick with a magnet on the end.  Kadizzle thought someday this will come in handy.  The day was yesterday.  A nut fell into a place on the Earth Module we could not reach.  Kadizzle rushed to the basement to get tool just made to solve the problem.  Too bad, when he got back Bob had already got his magic magnet and solved the problem.  So the tool that had sat idle for thirty five years never got used.  That is the story of so much of the crap in our house.  Someday it was going to serve some purpose.   That day never came, now it serves the purpose of giving two people exercise carrying it to the thrift store, or the junkyard. 

One of Kadizzle's favorite sayings of all time is " A man is rich in accordance with what he can afford to do without".  Not being burdened by junk makes you rich.  Once you actually assess all your junk you realize how much you could have done with out.  Maybe two coffee cups would have been enough, so the twenty in the cabinet were really not needed. 

Rampant Insanity

It is sad when the brain dies.  Kadizzle's brain is dying.  Arriving home we squeezed the new truck in the garage.  With only inches to spare it fit. That is good news. Now, what may turn out to be incredibly bad news.  The new truck my sit so high the Earth Module will not be able to hook up to it properly.  Like all our recent decisions this is part of the cascade decision process. One bad mistake leads to the next.  At this point the conclusion is we never should have sold our home.  Selling the house lead to buying a bigger truck.  If the truck is too big we will now have to buy a bigger camper.  That will severely eat into the money from the home and change the budget if we buy a new home. If the economy crashes like Trump would wish we will be living under a bridge with a new camper or maybe in a tent.  Winky has been at her wit's end with this mess and Kadizzle is about to join her in the need for medication.  Like putting off an execution Kadizzle is sitting here typing when he should be out seeing if the truck will haul the camper. 

Kadizzle got the notion to try to figure out the numbers concerning what we actually paid for the new truck.  Going through the cost of the new truck and what we actually paid was like watching a card trick done with numbers.  You add some here take off some there, call some numbers one thing, then call them something else add them in here and take them off there.  At the dealer they keep you confused, and frazzled and dazzled.  In the end it turns out to be the same old traditional tricks dressed up in new cloths.  The most magic number for any dealer is your trade in.  That number can be massaged to make it anything they want.  Kadizzle figures they are going to make two or three thousand out of your trade.  That is something you did to yourself.  You could have sold the thing outright, but it was too much hassle.  You pay dearly for that convince. Next they hit you for tinted windows, and some other mystery stuff, probably spraying a protective layer in the bed.  When the dust settles you can convince yourself you paid a choice of about three figures.  It is like getting an arm of leg amputated.  In the end you lost an arm or leg.  If they cut it off in pieces or all at once you still lost and arm or leg.  Now Kadizzle is going to get dressed and get the courage to see if this truck can fit under this trailer.  If you hear a loud gunshot that will mean it did not fit.  If Kadizzle does not have the courage to pull the trigger Trump and his gang will need to get a big stimulus check here quick.  The last time the first checks went out to the dead.  Please Mr Trump, Mr Stable genius send out the next checks to the stupid or crazy first.

Oh, a quick story.  Kadizzle talked to his older brother in hillbilly land.  Tom told Kadizzle he went ot a fourth of July celebration with some Trump hillbillies.  The Trump stump jumpers bought two pickup loads of fireworks which took two hours to ignite.  Tom asked the bubba boys why they spent so much on fireworks.  The answer was " We got them stimulus checks ".   Brilliant.

We have bin to the mountain

We have been to the mountain and are on the way back with our new insane truck.  The Kadizzle's bought a one ton truck to haul the Earth Module.  It took a 1600 mile drive to get it because the one we wanted was in Idaho.  The truck was purchased from the mother of all Dodge dealers.  They employ 600 people in Kellogg , Idaho.  They have truck selling down to a science and the place operates like a factory removing money from peoples pockets.  Will the damn thing fit in the garage.  That will be today's great mystery.  The original plan was to camp on the way out and back, but after driving six or seven hundred miles a day we went for hotel luxury.  Our good friends in Spokane let us spend the night and wined us and dined us. Blasting off from Billings to home today. 

Here we go

The truck is packed and we are blasting off for Idaho.  Money will shoot out our bunghole like a volcano.  Twelve hours to get there. Tonight may be in a tent.  Winky did not sleep well so she might be crabby.  Long time since we tented.  With the virus and Winky's spin on it the tent seems like a reasonable retreat.  Idaho is full of right wing white supremacist that love ignoring common sense so that should be fun. This is vegetable season so Winky has to pick fresh vegetables for Rita.  Older brother is supposed to get out of the hospital today. They are going to cut a nerve on his heart and let the pacemaker do all the decisions. Hope that all works out. Little sister is getting an ebike, so that should be fun to ride ebike with her down in Cottonwood.  Everyone be good and fight Trump with your last dying breath, maybe we can take the country back from the evil empire.

Very interesting

Below is an interview with a southern man that fought in the civil war.  Seems very strange to hear first hand what it was like. Listen to the whole thing.  The brother in law is an expert of the Civil War and has lived in many of the areas this man talks about.  The Kadizzles have visited some of these area.  Uncle Ben, Winky's brother lived in a house in Petersburg that had a cannon shot in the wall. The strange attitude toward black people is interesting. The guy being interviewed had no white children to play with so he played with the slave children.  Never, heard before the General Lee had a plan to free the slaves.  Absolutely amazing to hear someone talk who was in the Civil War.

1947 Interview with Corporal Julius Franklin "General" Howell (1846-1948)

Is the tide turning

Sometimes you can just sense something.  This morning it is rain.  On the political front Kadizzle thinks he is sensing the demise of Trump.  It just seems more people are actively admitting what a failure he is.  Hope springs eternal. 

Looks like we will have to drive to Kellogg, Idaho this week to get our new truck.  The Kadizzles went nuts and bought a one ton truck with all the bells and whistles.  Now we can pull a circus wagon with all the elephants we need.  Since we may be homeless vagabonds we will need to have everything we own in our camper.  If only Trump and his gang can send us a big stimulus check.

The flush continues.  Cleaning out our house is a chore.  Yesterday it was like picking fruit.  We had to pick all the pictures out of those frames that hold about ten family pictures each.  It was a review of our children growing up.  Interesting to look back in the past and see the yard evolve, along with the belly and the scalp. 

Over at Stroupini's we played with the prism Kadizzle gave him.  Kadizzle gave him a ship's prism.  In the old days they used to implant big cast glass prisms in the deck.  These prisms brought light down into the ship.  Out in the backyard at Stroupini's the prism makes light dance all over the place.

Sitting here in the engine room Kadizzle has the window open.  A simple minded dinger just went by on the highway.  Why do the simple minded have engines that are as obnoxious as possible?  Being stupid is bad enough, but the need to advertise your stupidity seems strange.  The dingers on motorcycles with loud exhaust have to declare to the world " Look at me, I am an idiot with no respect for anyone".   Reminds Kadizzle of the Red Hats and the Trump flag flyers.  Make sure everyone knows you are mentally challenged.  Some plants and animals let others know they are dangerous with loud growls or bright colors.  It is a public service letting the world know you are an idiot. Sometime you hear someone declare " Look at that idiot".  Often it is a warning.  Trump has tried to explain to everyone he is a dangerous idiot, but some just have to cross the railroad crossing in front of the train.

There is no problem so simple

There is no problem so simple it cannot be made more difficult. That is the mantra we live by.   When Kadizzle ask Winky a simple question that could be answered with a yes or no, it turns into a lecture.  For example if Kadizzle said to Winky " What day is it?"  .  Winky would not say Tuesday.  No, Winky would say " Don't you know yesterday was Monday, and Tuesday always comes after Monday.  On Wednesday you may look at the calendar and you will realize today is Tuesday.  Why did you ask me? Why didn't you just look at the calendar?".   So a simple answer that could have just been " It is Tuesday" becomes a half hour lecture on Tuesdays. This principle of making everything complicated drives Kadizzle nuts.  Once upon a time Kadizzle went to neighbor Bob and asked him to cut a piece of wood in the shape of a triangle.  Kadizzle gave Bob a square piece of wood and told him it made no difference what angle the resulting triangle turned out.  Simple, put the wood on the table saw push it through, and zip you are done. Nope, not an engineer.  Bob got out a builders square, a straight edge and made a simple job into a complex one.  That is the nature of humans.  Take the simplest task and figure out a way to make it complicated.  That often is the purpose of government. Look around you and see how many things have been needlessly complicated. So many times things are complicated with choices.  Back to Winky.  If Winky buys something she orders one of each kind. So if you want one shirt she order five.  You sort through the shirts and send back the ones you don't want.

Kadizzle is trying to go into a super who cares phase. Once you just don't care it is such a freeing feeling.  Ask yourself a simple question " What difference does it make".  Most decisions in life make very little difference.  However, people can ponder forever on if they should have cheese on their hamburger or not. People have such a tendency to get caught up on such nonsensical things that just don't matter.  Another major problem in life is getting attached to things. As we clean out our house it becomes apparent all the things we have been keeping for absolutely no reason.  Things haunt people.  Like snowflakes things pile up.  How does that happen. Kadizzle had a nice 55 gallon blue plastic drum that sat beside the shed.  It sat there for 15 or twenty years.  Always Kadizzle had a plan for that barrel.  Finally Kadizzle got rid of the barrel.  It was just a nuisance.  We all have all those things that someday we will need or fix. It never happens.  You wake up dead one day and someone has to give away all  your crap. Then there is the illusion that your crap is worth something. Nope, you can crap just like yours at any garage sale. There is a magic freedom in being free of junk. People are natural hoarders, and so are squirrels. 

Let the Bulgine Run

The Kadizzle household is in a kerfuffle.  Winky is losing her mind because we are selling our house. For years this is what she wanted to do.  Winky wanted to sell the house and move to Payson, Arizona.  Now, the house is sold and Winky wants to keep it and die and rot here.  Winky is actually trying to get out of the contract.  Add to this the hassle of getting rid of all our junk, buying a new expensive truck to pull the fifth wheel we will be living in and you have insane turmoil.  Winky has been having difficulty sleeping.  Some decisions you cannot take back.  Well what can Kadizzle do? The song let the Bulgine run sums it up.  Once you light the fuse you have no choice. So, let the Bullgine run.  It is an old sailing song.  Apparently an old steam engine was called a bulgine.  Well, clear the track and let the bulgine run.  The fuse is lit, the house is going to go, we are going into the wild unknown.  Kadizzle was in charge of blasting and has worked with explosives many times in his life.  One thing Kadizzle can assure you is that when you set off an explosion you never know the exact results.  Winky has set off an explosion.  We may run up to the face after the explosion and find a thick vein of gold, or maybe just a pile of rocks.  Kadizzle has seen a good shot produce wonderful results and also extreme disappointment.  So hey, rig, a jig, clear the tracks and let the bulgine run.

Clear the Track, Let the Bulgine Run

Strange experiment

Yesterday Winky and Kadizzle had a conversation with some good friends.  We talked about the mess in the country.  Marnie brought up an interesting point. When we were talking about our experiences with black people she said we had no idea of their perception.  She was right. Kadizzle went to school with a few black kids.  Today he decided to try to find one of the black kids he went to school with. If Kadizzle finds him, he will say " Tell me honestly, and in your words, what was high school like for you, and what did you think of the racism at that time".  Who knows if I can find him, but it may be interesting.

The Bubble

Kadizzle lives in Hazen, North Dakota, everyone here lives in the bubble.  There are really two bubbles here, the Trump bubble, and the the coal bubble.  In the post below there is a very good discussion about nuclear power.  Kadizzle has been trying to wake up the cult here that they need to embrace some new ideas.  If the local cult does not come to grip with reality this town will die on the vine.  This morning Kadizzle has a notion to send the video to our city commission to see if it is possible to penetrate the wall of stupidity that keeps them in a daze.

Small Modular Reactors. Are they now unavoidable?

The Names

The world is not stranger than you think, it is stranger than you can think.  Yep, Einstein was right. Through the magic of the internet old Kadizzle has got into communicating with all the old people he grew up with in Wheeling, West Virginia.   Never did Kadizzle dream so many people he went to school with would become Trump dolts, Fox News simple minded Republicans.  As Kadizzle wondered to them, how did you a good education and waste it?  The school system that raised Kadizzle was a good system all things considered, but it turned out some sad people who bought into the Trump insanity.  The strange thing is to read names from the past.  Vague memories of people Kadizzle went to grade school with.  A lot of these former classmates were privileged kids. How did they fall into the trap of Trumpism.  Lazy is the only think Kadizzle can think of.  Mentally lazy.  Too lazy to read anything real, just turn on Fox and go for the fantasy.  Omar if you are reading this, religion is the poinsen.  Religion teaches people to give up rational thought, and just believe, no matter how absurd.  It works, Trump rode the back of the religious to victory. Trump knew if they believed that nonsense then his was just an inch away. 

I am rich, so I must be smart.

A hundred years ago Kadizzle remembers talking with a teenage friend.  Edward Bippus was his name. The poor guy was a good friend of my little brother.  Bippus went on to the great beyond, but I remember a conversation with Bippus.  At some point Bippus said " If  you're so smart, why aren't you rich?".  Kadizzle has learned in his 71 years that there is no relationship between rich and smart. A lot of dumb people are poor, and a lot of simple minded people are rich.  No example shines better than Donald Trump. Trump is a man who has money from inheritance, crooked dealing, and the public's thirst to watch an idiot.  Too many people have a pile of cheese, because Daddy left them a pile of cheese.  They would be hopeless bums except for the fact that Dad left enough food in their bowl to last a long time.  The worship of wealth, and the rich has led the country to the dumb down state we are in.  Symbols of wealth have wasted so many resources. People live in oversized houses, with oversized cars, eating oversized meals. He must be smart because he is rich, so the simple dingers dress their bodies with bling.  The rich impoverish the poor.  Money that should go into schools goes into yachts, and jets.  " It's their money, they earned it", that is the Republican mantra.  Perhaps they should say " It's their money, they stole it".  Walmart enslaved a bunch of almost unemployable people and paid them a welfare wage.  Genius, pure genius.  Walmart sells stuffed animals, and shiploads of stuff people just don't need.  Walmart's  motto should be " Making poverty affordable".

Two Bubbas

The Kadizzles are in a crazy state of mind.  Winky wants to sell the house and move, but she wants to keep the house and stay here.  Everything is green and the yard is fantastic.  The house is in good shape and the living is easy.  If we are going to sell the joint we need to rid ourselves of the junk.  Kadizzle loaded a trailer with crap from the garden shed and took it up to the parking lot by the main road.   Kadizzle only had two customers, and an old friend stop by, but he managed to get rid of a lot of stuff.  First a strange guy pulled up who was a coyote hunter.  Kadizzle talked him into buying more junk than he intended.  A long conversation ensued.   The fellow said he was a retired railroad mechanic.  He live out of his truck and fished and hunted coyotes.  He sort of bragged he only saw his wife two days last year.  His wife is mining gold in Quartzite, Arizona.  Next two guys in overalls that appeared to be Bubba twins came by.  The chiseled Kadizzle down on everything, but they bought the junk.  The grand finally was an old guy Kadizzle used to work with at the mine.  He bought something, and Kadizzle just gave him a lot of stuff.  In the end the trailer was fairly empty with stuff that may get thrown out.  Meeting the strange people was fun.  Perhaps tomorrow Kadizzle will restock the trailer with fresh garbage and give it another try.

Dog gone

The Denver family has gone berserk over a new dog.  Old Snoocher Bear was never a dog person, but she has caught the fever.  Sylvie has totally lost her mind, and Fran grew up with a dad who always had to have a dog.  Danny is the puppies name.  Poor Danny is in demand every minute of the day. The batteries are going to wear out.  Kadizzle has always like dogs.  Dogs are just a different kind of people.  Give a dog a chance and a dog will always be better than a person.  The bad dogs you find were made bad by people.  Hopefully Sylvie will learn a lot by caring for a dog.  Since Sylvie is an only child she needs to realize what caring for another helpless person is like.  Little brothers and sisters teach us something and if  your little brother happens to have fur all over him so what.

The Best Sign Ever

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Waiting to die

Last night Kadizzle talked to a good friend.  The poor guy has a bad case of Lutheranism.  The man has plenty of cheese, but is afraid of the future.  Every day he goes to a job he cannot stand.  The reason is he is insecure.  He feels he needs more cheese.  He is trading his life for cheese.  As you get old you realize time is worth more than cheese.  You will run out of time.  You may not run out of cheese.  Each year you are able to do less. Each year your knees are weaker, you endurance is less.  Then you have the ultimate problem.  You may get cancer. Your heart may give out.  So live. Live now.  Kadizzle has seen too many people drop dead before they every got to put the cheese on the cracker.  People love routine.  You get up have the coffee and later go to bed just to do it all over.  There is more to life than that.  Pursuing the cheese has wrecked a lot of lives.  People have sat behind a desk as the world passed them by.  What for? 

All this reminds Kadizzle of the old days when he was a kid.  The parents gave each of us ten dollars to go to the carnival.   Now you had ten bucks to spend.  Where you going to see the " Alligator woman"?  She walks, she talks, she slithers on her belly, or where you going to win big on one of the rigged gambling sites?  You had ten dollars, that was it.  Well that is life you have so much time.  Are you going to spend it sitting in a church pew or sailing on the lake?  Are you going to spend it in some damn coal mine or on the top of a mountain?  Kadizzle was a lucky man he retired when he was fifty, and does not regret it a bit.  The Kadizzles have some good friends who did the same thing. They biked from Spokane to Alaska, turned around and biked down the Rocky Mountains through Colorado. They spent 12 years in the back country of Glacier Park.  Some other friends sailed the Pacific for 12 years.  What about you?  Did you sit and stare at a clock waiting for Friday?  We have nothing to fear, but fear itself. 

What inspired Kadizzle?  My brother dropped dead at 49,  a couple weeks later the guy Kadizzle rode to work with dropped dead at the same age on the kitchen floor one Saturday morning.  The hell with that Kadizzle said and he retired.  Haven't dropped dead yet, but have sure done a lot in the twenty one years. Kadizzle's last job was boiling water in a power plant.  A power plant is just a giant tea kettle.  There is a lot more to life than boiling water.  My buddy who is still trying to stack the cheese is a water boiler.  Boiling water around here is big business.  It is a boring business. Imagine maintaining a clock, but the clock always runs.  You just sit there and the clock ticks.  That clock is ticking away your life. Kadizzle sees sadness in the clock watchers. 

Awakened

The body awakened at about three A.M.  Unfortunately it appears Kadizzle is in the same world he was yesterday.  A world taken over by insanity.  Maybe it has always been this way.  Excuse me folks, but religion was the first mass insanity.  People believing some nonsense without an once of proof.  That is what we have with Trump today.  Trump is just a religion.  Trump makes stuff up, and the Trump religious believe it.  In the old days a church could sell you indulgences.  Trump still does the same thing but it is more the mafia style of indulgence.  An easy sell is tax breaks.  You believe in me and I will reduce your taxes.  In the old days it was water into wine, now it is deficit into money for the rich.  Same magic tricks just different sales pitch.  In the old days the church always won.  The Republicans always win.  Once you get the believers to believe it is game on.  The Catholic Church raped South American and most of whatever else they could get their hands on including little boys.  Trump is not much different he rapes little girls and steals from us all.  Tell them what they want to hear. That is religion, and that is the Republican party.  Promise salvation as you steal.  The modern version is trickle down.  Wait for heaven, and wait for the rich to piss on you.  So Kadizzle woke up in the same world he went to sleep in.

The Real Virus

Mental illness is the real virus sweeping the country.  We have a leader that is a psychopath, his followers are delusional, and the country is crumbling around us.  Science has been relegated to the place religion should be.  Facts, reasoning, and logic have been turned into evils indulged in by overeducated people confused by reality. " I got mine " has replaced any sense of community.  The government has turned into the mafia.  The Don has himself surrounded by lickspittles helping him pump the swamp to the point it has become a lake of dishonesty.  No institution is too sacred to abuse.  Trump has defecated on the military, the supreme court, and his cohort Mitch McConnell has helped Trump grab the genitals of the legislative body.  Meanwhile we walk among the Trump zombies and act like life is normal.

Morning Outrage

Winky awakened Kadizzle with her insane need to open all the windows early in the morning.  This means Kadizzle is in the mood to be outraged.  For good outrage you need something to set you off.  Being so sound asleep Kadizzle was near death and then to have Winky zip the window blind up caused a nuclear reaction in the brain. Best to send this rage somewhere else.  Rob Port, what a piece of work.  This large lumbering hulk of Crisco is the excuse The Fargo Forum uses for not paying a real journalist. 

Port wrote in the Forum that the Bad Ass Grandma group is a front for billionaires.  Guess what the billionaires are trying to do? The evil billionaires are trying to overthrow the kind Republicans in North Dakota. You know those nice guys who support the gentle Trump. Amazing billionaires banning together to bring democracy to North Dakota.  God help us.  God did help himself with the help of the Supreme Court.  Now those silly little religious schools can get tax money.  Only if they are Christian Republican religious schools.  The world is an amazing place.

A nice picture with Sylvie

Be sure to click on the picture and see if full size.  Grandpa has so much fun with Sylvie.

A Pleasant Stop

Winky diverted our homeward bound journey to Lake Angustrura in South Dakota.  It only took a little over an hour to make it from Lusk.  This is the same lake we usually stop at on the way home in the spring or on the way to AZ in the fall.   Very different with all the people here in the summer.  We ended  up ebiking and taking a swim.  South Dakota has done a very nice job with the park and there are miles of sandy beaches.  The water was warm and felt good on a hot day.  Later in the day a terrible storm went East and West of us.  The park blew the danger siren and the Kadizzles tuned in to the weather station. Things were tense for awhile, but all went well.  In the height of the storm Winky suggested if it got bad Kadizzle could put on his new bike helmet.  It is not actually a bike helmet, but an orange tree trimming helmet.  Kadizzle put it on and sat in his chair waiting for the world to end.  The world did not end so we awaken to another morning that is very pleasant, but Trump is still alive and wrecking havoc. 

The simple minded

Living in the third world.

Winky and Kadizzle have awakened in Lusk, Wyoming.  Last night we wandered from the Earth module down to a covid 19 cafe.  After a nice meal we decided to get a milkshake.  What struck Kadizzle on the walk was the poverty and mess here in Amrika.  As Kadizzle looked around he thought it felt like some poverty stricken area in Mexico.  Lately the New York Times has been full of articles about income inequality.  The rich live in compounds and keep the poor at bay. Trump helps the rich exploit the poor and no one notices.  The level of ignorance in this country is astounding.  Too many times Kadizzle has talked to people who attended college and found them dumb as bricks about the reality we live in.  Most people live in their own little bubble.  Winky came back from the milkshake expedition on a little different route.  Winky reported there were some nice houses in this run down bum shunkle town.  That is our country.  A few do well as many scratch for a living.  Last night all these busted flat people set off fireworks to well into the night.  Without a pot to piss in they burn up their paycheck on cigarettes, fireworks, tatoos, and some fancy wheels .  Most amazing are the people buzzing around on four wheelers with a big American Flag celebrating the new slavery the Republicans have created.  Poverty for the whole country is a choice, not a necessity.  Will we take the country back from the one percent?  Ignorance is the real virus, and you cannot stop it with face mask. 

Little Sister

Trump has finally driven my poor little sister nuts.  Patty was at the community pool with four Trump cultist.  Their idiocy got to Patty and she gave them the full blast.  Kadizzle has never heard his sweet little sister go on such a rant.  It is shocking when you find out how uninformed, and brain dead a good friend is.  At this point you would have to keep your head in a bucket not to know what a worthless con man Trump is, but the cultist can do it.

Here we sit in Lusk, Wyoming baking.  The fireworks will keep us from napping.  Kadizzle got way too far into the bourbon last night and recovery is needed.  May have to turn on the Earth Module air conditioning.

The Plan

The plan was for a different life style.  Bike riding in the western mountains is the new plan. Today Winky and Kadizzle too the most excellent ebike ride in Wyoming.  The trials were a lot of fun, and thankya Jeesus for ebikes.  Kadizzle hopes to explore more areas on the way home. Perhaps we can explore up around Sheridan, Wyoming.   It is raining right now and the rain is badly needed.  Had no idea there was such nice country around Cheyenne and Laramie .  Had a great time with Sylvie.  She is going bonkers because she gets a puppy today.  If you are an old goat like Kadizzle then get yourself and ebike.  Kadizzle saw a younger guy with his kids today on the steep trails struggling to pedal the old fashioned way.  An ebike takes thirty years off your belly.

The wind died

Waking up to a peaceful no wind day.  A miracle to awake in such a wonderful area. Yesterday we drove around the countryside.  Very pretty area that must have amazed the original settlers.  After a great supper we had some custom made bourbon and did some singing with Sylvie.  Took Sylvie on a hike and taught her some hiking and navigation skills.  Sylvie is getting good at compass skills and the GPS.  My have to get Sylvie a GPS for Christmas.

At this point it appears our house in Hazen may be sold.  Winkie wants a house in Payson, Arizona.  It will be a lot of hassle moving and making the transition.  Not looking forward to that.  The housing market in Hazen is terrible and it feels like we gave the house away.  Recently we have put a fortune into the place with two new bathrooms, new windows,  a nice kitchen, and redid the garage.  Such is life.

Today looking for ebike fun.  May do some more exploration.  Yesterday we found an area with a lot of ebike trails. 

Looks like Trump is on the run.  If we can bring that rat to bay the country may be on the rise again. Do your part fight the rat every chance you get.

Insane Wind

The Kadizzles are nested in a wonderful spot, one major problem, insane wind.  The Earth Module is rocking and The Pop up camper is suffering.  Sylvie slept over with granny and gramps.  Winkle says the wind is 28 mph.  Yesterday Kadizzle took a neat ebike ride around Turtle Mountain.  Kadizzle and the gang went for a hike along a stream yesterday.  Sylvie jumped in and got cooled down.  Part of Kadizzle's plan on the hike was to see if the trail could be ebiked.  The trail looks good, but at one point you have to cross the stream.  The crossing point is part of a beaver dam.  Kadizzle figured he could lower the water level by destroying the dam.  Kadizzle got a lesson in beaver dams, and learned to respect their building ability.  The little beast really know how to weave twigs and stick together.  Beavers seem to build a base for their dams out of mud, and surprisingly rocks.  Kadizzle was amazed at the size of rocks the beavers could move.  Kadizzle finally had to give up on the dam destruction project.  The water level did go down about a foot.  Maybe if the blasted wind goes down the fat man will try that trail today.

Hope they have Trump on the run

Wind, wind, and more wind here in Wyoming.  The area is fantastic, but the wind just does not let up. Fran and Erin are staying in their soft sided pop up camper.  The wind is driving them nuts.  Last night for the second night Sylvie transferred to the Earth module. 

Now for the good news, it appears even some of the brain dead Trump supporters are waking up to the fact he is a hopeless mess.  Trump ignoring the fact Russia placed a bounty on American soldiers should get to the most simple minded, but reality does not sit well with Republicans. 

More hiking today.  Kadizzle may do an exploration run on the ebike.  When we climbed to the top of the rugged peak the other day Kadizzle got a great overview of the area and the trails.  Hopefully the trails will support a ebike ride.  If only the blasted wind would go down.  Fun teaching Sylvie outdoor skills.  Sylvie loves hiking and outdoor activities so she is having a blast. 

Sylvie

Be sure to click on the picture to enlarge it.  A very nice picture of my Sylvie.  We went to the Snowy Mountains today.  More good hiking, eating, and campfires. 

Wyoming Wonders

The Earth Module sits on top of a small rise with an incredible view.  Fran, Sylvie, and Erin are camped next to us in their pop up.  Yesterday we took a fantastic hike to the top of a huge boulder mountain with a view a hundred miles out onto the plains. The internet service is poor here.  So much fun seeing Sylvie.  The wind was so bad last night she had to come to the Earth Module to sleep.  Nice ebike riding here also.  Got to see a baby moose with the mom from about twenty feet away.  Everyone really likes the area.   It is dispersed camping which is nice.  When Sylvie got up we sang some songs and gave Sylvie a lesson on Halley's Comet.  We did the Comet study because of a song that mentioned it.  Also have been teaching Sylvie how to navigate with GPS.  If Kadizzle can get around to it he may post some pictures later.  The solar panels are doing a great job of keeping us charged up.

Slow down the testing.

Dusk in Lusk

Here we sit in Lusk, Wyoming.  We are right on the corner of some skididly RV park.  The people who run the park are real touchy about parking on their grass. The sites are skinny and there was not much room for our slide out.  Kadizzle did not know they were niggifiddles about the grass and inadvertentloy got a wheel on the grass.  Pap came running and complained, and ma showed up a little later to guide us in for a third try.  Finally we settled in and had a good night.  So we are off to Vedavoo to camp with Erin, Sylvie, and Fran.  First summer trip with the camper.  Since we sold the sailboat this is a different life style. 

Awakening

Kadizzle is up, it is around six in the morning.  Winkie is still in bed.  Waking up as an old lump is like coming out from under anesthesia. Kadizzle feels like pie dough that has just been rolled out.  Gravity seems to be everywhere.  Walking toward the kitchen feels like a boulder with legs.  Dreaming wears Kadizzle down to a frazzle. Kadizzle dream, and dreams, and dreams.  The dreams are so bizzare and detailed that Kadizzle awakens every night and wonders how does the brain invent these elaborate movies. The complexity of the scenery is incredible.  How does the mind make a movie?  How does it do it night after night?  Last night was a classic.  Kadizzle dreamt he was walking past a factory that made rebar.  Where in the hell did that come from? About fifty years ago along the Ohio River Kadizzle did ride a motorcycle by a factory that made rebar. Why did the mind drag this up fifty years later and incorporate it in a dream? Strange.  The sun is coming over the right shoulder.  This means the sun is on the North side of the house.  The Earth has tilted to the extent that the very sun that shines in the southern windows now shines in from the North.  This giant rock is hurtling around the Sun, the sun is blasting off in space, and Trump is lying at the speed of light. 

Right here in engine room things are scattered all over the floor.  The stuff is from the go bag.  What in the hell is a go bag? Well the preppers, if you know who they are have a bag full of crap they can pick up and run with when the shit hits the fan.  Kadizzle sort of likes the idea.  In Cottonwood at a garage sale Kadizzle got a seventy dollar bag for one dollar.  It was brand new.   Now in the bag are things that might get you out of a bind.  There are two way radios,  a space blanket, a GPS, pencil, paper, earphones, a water filter, snacks, gloves, a balaklava, a swiss army knife,  a headlamp, pulling tape, and on and on.  We all face that moment when we say " If only I had a...."  Well a go bag should have that magic thing that gets you out of a bind.  So the go bag is in the truck most of the time.  Actually there are two go bags. A smaller version is a backpack with a few essentials.  The problem is these bags have to always be rearranged.  Sometimes things in the backpack go to the go bag, and vice versa.  Anyway there is a big mess on the floor of the engine room because the go bag is getting checked for the trip to Wyoming. 

Is the cult cracking?  Somehow Kadizzle want to believe people are leaving the Trump cult.  His lies have become so blatant, that maybe there is hope. His Tulsa event was so pathetic.  The fact that teenagers supposedly fooled his gang is a good laugh.

Over at Stroupini's the carpet is down, should say upside down. Stoupini has lad carpet all over the yard which will soon be filled with gravel.  The idea is he carpet will keep the weeds down.  When the gravel shows up the project will be complete.

How Can You Tell?

Below is a song by John Prine.  Now if you encounter someone who is a John Prine fan you know they are basically a good person. A few people have hit it out of the park.  Kadizzle would say John Prine, Leonard Cohen, and Bob Dylan are three people you can count on. The ability to combine words and music to perfection is a rare treat.  Some people can crank out one or two or even three great ones, but these guys have dozens.

John Prine - Summer's End Official Video

The Trump Honor Roll

Put up a Trump flag to show people you are on the Trump honor roll.  Sadly we have about four on the honor roll here in our hamlet. On this honor roll you don't get honored for reading, thinking or checking facts.  You are honored for being a good cult member.  You believe. You believer there was a biggly crowd in Tulsa.  You believe what the man behind the curtain says.  Believing lies is a skill the Trumpsters have mastered.  Flags are great.  A simple pieced of cloth will identify a racist, an idiot, or a Nazi.  How convenient.  You may have always thought Willy was a little simple, but to have Willy self identify makes life easy.

Solar Bike

Yesterday Kadizzle figured out a way to recharge the ebike with solar power.  Since the Kadizzles are going to do some dry camping in Wyoming this will be a good breakthrough.   Our two solar panels are hooked to a twelve volt battery, and the battery runs an inverter into which the bike charger is plugged. It is kind of a long way around the barn to get the job done, but it seems to work.  No doubt it is not the most efficient way to do it, but any port in a storm.  Off to Wyoming we will go with two ebikes.  

In Wyoming we will meet our talented little granddaughter, Sylvie.  Sylvie is at her first acting job today.  At age 11 she is being paid $150 an hour to act in a public service add for a hospital. Grandpa expects a nice birthday or Christmas present this year.  Everyone was delighted to find out Sylvie was accepted to the Denver school of arts. 

If you believe it, it is true

What is the explanation? How do the cult members stay in the cult?  Every day the evidence of Trump's incompetence, crookedness, lying, and immorality just pile higher.  How do the cult members ignore a pile of evidence that obscures the sun?  Most amazing are the religious dingers.  Kadizzle knows several people that are " washed in the blood of the lamb".    These people march to church and get their tank filled with mythology, then they go home and turn on Fox News.  Delusional is the only explanation. Today Kadizzle came across an article about Trump's niece writing a book.  The niece is a psychologist.  She tells tales of how rotten Trump has been his entire life.  Today the big deal is Bolton's book about the Trump rot.  Everywhere you turn someone is leaking the truth about the rat in the White House, yet the cult still believes.  Republican has become a religion.  You just believe contrary to any evidence.  You just have faith that Trump's rot is god inspired. 

"Pilgrim"- Steve Earle and the Del McCoury Band featuring Emmylou Harris

Have we become a police state?

Yesterday Kadizzle took off for Taylor, North Dakota with Stroupini to get some trees for his backyard. As we drove into the little town of Dodge, North Dakota Stroupini slowed down, but not enough.  As luck would have it an officer of the law was driving East while we were going West.  It was apparent the sheriff's deputy was going to stop Stroupini.  Stroupini pulled into a side street and the patrolman followed.  After asking Stroupine for his drivers licence the deputy asked Kadizzle for his.  This seemed like a very strange request and Kadizzle questioned the officer as to why he would as for the passenger's license.  The officer said it was for his protection.  Protection from what? He had already asked if we were armed.  Of course we were not.  Two men in their seventies would not pose much of a threat.  The deputy was a big man and could probably have knocked Stroupini over with a fart.  It might have taken a little work with the night stick to subdue Kadizzle.  Kadizzle gave he officer his license.  When the officer went back to his car to print out a ticket for Kadizzle he started to take Kadizzle's license with him.  Kadizzle asked why? Apparently the officer was going to call in both license.  Kadizzle told him no, Kadizzle wanted his license back.  There had been a little discussion earlier and the officer said Kadizzle did not have to give him the license. The officer said it was for his safety, so Kadizzle agreed saying indeed he did want the officer to be safe.  Now all of this raises he question, what if it was a van load of people, or a bus load of people?  Would everyone on the bus or van be checked?  Were it a van load of Mexicans or black people how would it be handled? There is nothing wrong with good police work, and in this encounter everyone was polite and cordel, however it did give the impression of a country run by Trump.

A ride in the Badlands

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Click on the link above to see a nice video of the bike ride with Winky yesterday in the Badlands. We had another great ride. Good weather, scenery and a setting that rivals any in the country.  

Let's flag stupidity

I am an idiot.  If that is the message you want the world to see raise a Trump Flag, a Confederate Flag, or just put on a red Trump hat to let people know you are simple minded.  Almost forgot, you could put a Trump bumper sticker on your car.  We live in a society of symbols.  The NRA sticker on a pickup lets you know what is inside.  Food is labeled, and a lot of people like the idea that you can pick up a package and know how much salt is in the chips.  When people label themselves you can tell how many beans are in the jar with ears on it.  It is nice to know right away you are talking to an uneducated idiot.  Kadizzle has his anti Trump shirt.  It simply says Impeach on it.  When the shirt supply is low and most of the T shirts are in the laundry Kadizzle pops on the Impeach shirt.  It is fun to wear it around town and troll for dingers.  The shirt does identify Kadizzle as whatever he is, certainly not a Trump fan.  Now here comes the propaganda problem.  Idiots are proud to be idiots. The idiots want the world to know they are simple minded.  Here in Trumpville the idiots drive the loudest trucks and motorcycles possible to bring attention to themselves.  Like the gun totters that you encounter in Arizona with a side arm, you know right away you are looking at an idiot, an armed idiot. What could be finer.  Kadizzle was in Auckland, New Zealand and there he was an old goat from the U.S. with his Trump hat walking down the street in downtown.  Kadizzle could not help it. Kadizzle told the simple minded fellow he was an embarrassment to the United States.  What have we come to when people proudly declare they don't have an ounce of intelligence?

Political facemask

It is Sunday morning.  Winky just wandered into the kitchen.  Kadizzle is sitting here reading The Economist.  A short little article on facemask caught his attention.  The article said facemask are more to protect other people than yourself.  Boing!  That explains it. Republicans don't care about anyone but themselves.  That is why they don't wear facemask.  Democrats care about other people, that is why they do wear facemask.  Could there be a simple way to identify people?  Republicans believe, I got mine, the hell with you.  Democrats believe the more people are happy the more they will be happy.  So now we have a system that is wonderful.  The idiots wear red hats, so you know them instantly. The selfish people don't wear mask, so you know them instantly.  Then there are some who take it one step farther and put up a Trump flag or a Trump bumper sticker.  They are making it clear they want nothing to do with reality. This is a great system we have in place.

Sad to see the Brain die

Some problems developed with our pickup truck.  It seemed the battery was not charging the way it should.  After spending a small fortune the mechanics said the problem was solved, but they were not sure how they solved the problem.  Kadizzle questioned if the truck had actually been fixed.  In the morning Kadizzle went out to the truck and started the engine to see if the battery was charging correctly. Kadizzle reported to Winky who was standing by the the repair seemed to have been a failure.  To determine if the battery is charging of course Kadizzle thought he was looking at the gauge that indicates the state of the battery.  Winky said let me see what you are talking about.  Kadizzle pointed to the gas gauge and said to Winky " Look that needle should be right in the middle and it is not" .  Winky said " You idiot, that is the gas gauge."   Kadizzle suddenly realized what a 70 year old brain is like.  Fortunately the Truck had half a tank of gas so the battery was not dead.  Checking the correct gauge things seemed better. 

There is something magic about the brain, and sleep.  Yesterday Kadizzle drove himself insane trying to fix the garage door.  The door would go up about a foot and stop.  Kadizzle spent six hours adjusting, lubricating, and fiddling with the damn door.  Still no success.  In the end Kadizzle gave up with the thought that the answer might come to him in his sleep.  Awakening this morning Kadizzle realized he had been concentrating on the door.  Kadizzle had paid no attention to the mechanism that actually does the work.  Neighbor Bob asked last night " Did you lubricate the chain".  The answer is no, but that did lead to the thought about lubricating the slide the mechanism runs on.  That is probably the problem.  Cannot wait to find out.  Everyone has heard the saying " sleep on it".   It really works. 

Brain rot

Coming down the street towards the back yard there it was, a Trump flag flying on the neighbors flag pole.  How do people who appear capable and normal fail to see the sickening inadequacies of Trump.  It might have been acceptable to believe in the orange terror at one point.  Today the pile of lies, the evidence of Trump's incompetence, the endless fraud is so extensive how could anyone still believe in his cult.  Nothing has destroyed Kadizzle's faith in humanity like Trump.  People Kadizzle has known and thought to be normal are caught up in the cult.  What in the hell is wrong?  It is like Mormons, they believe the most insane nonsense, yet they appear to be normal humans.  How can the brain wander off into the wild?  Even Fox News has turned on Trump at times.  How do these people isolate themselves from reality?

Driving Entertainment

Sometimes one gets bored driving.  There is a solution.  Listen to KFYR radio until you get so infuriated you call in to Scott Hennen.  It is hard to say enough bad about this worthless lickspittle, but Kadizzle will try.  Driving with Winky toward the Badlands Kadizzle decided to call in to Scott Hennens Trump love session.  Kadizzle had a plan.  The plan was to set Hennen up by saying the subject of the call was fairness.  When you call in some prescreener answers the phone and ask you what your topic is.  Kadizzle said he wanted to talk about fairness.  When Hennen finally started talking to Kadizzle he said " This guy wants to talk about fairness, I wonder if it is about us" Yep Scott is about you and how you talk over people, hang up on anyone who disagrees with your, or go to a commercial.   " You allow anyone who agrees with you to talk forever,  Lets put this to a test" Kadizzle said to Scott.  " Donald Trump is the worst president we have every had and you cover up and spin for the lying con man."  " Do you deny it, do you have any shame".  At this point Hennen says " nice talking to you" and hangs up, and goes to a commercial.  Hennen proved the point. 

The saddest part of this whole thing is the tractor drivers that eat up Hennen's right wing spin.  Who would sponsor such cow droppings? Of course, it is Mr. Pillow.  Hennen brags about Mr. Pillow's book about how Mr. Pillow went from a crack head to CEO.  No respectable company would support red neck KFYR, but Mr. Pillow the guy who stands beside Trump does.  So a crack head figures out how to make pillows out of ground up car seats and makes a fortune.  The crack head along with Kevin Cramer, Kelly Armstrong and all Trump's North Dakota lickspittles come on Scott's show and get free political ads while Scott throws them softball questions. 

In past call ins Kadizzle has suggested to Scott he have someone on with him for balance.  "That is not necessary" Scott explains.   " If you don,t like my spinning, and lying listen to another channel".
Now if Scott has not dumbed down the gun totters, and the plowers enough, KFYR then runs a couple hours of Rush Limbaugh.  KFYR radio is an embarrassment to any sensible person living in North Dakota.  Get yourself a Magic Pillow and have your brains sucked out.

Donate

Kadizzle has never been big on political donations, but this year is different.  The scum we call Republicans has become so uncontrolled with idiocy. Trump spreading a conspiracy theory yesterday about a 75 year old man knocked over by the police is more than anyone can take.  Kevin Cramer is in the NYT today denying he knows anything about it.  Worse than senseless scum is the only way to describe these lickspittles for the rich. What does it take for people to wake up? Can you drive nails into the head of the idiots under the red hats?

Off to the Badlands again today for another bike ride.  Don't be silent about the Republican rats. Fight them on the streets, in the paper, at the coffee shop.  If our country is to survive these lying scum must be defeated.

Sniffers

Tomorrow another sniffer will come to see our house.  For some strange reason sniffers are finally showing up, but no one has made an offer on the estate.  Winky has totally seccumbed to her OCD.  Winky has Kadizzle helping her remove every dead branch from the property.  No one would believe the amount of organic detris we haul from this property.  Our wonderful neighbors to the West have an old rickety cart we use to haul to the tree dump, and the grass dump.  Kadizzle has the job of keeping it empty.  Winky and Marilyn see the empty cart as a challenge to fill with anything that was once alive.  Winky is back by the engine room asleep.  Kadizzle awoke at 4:30 A.M. and is in the kitchen getting up to date. 

Kadizzle came across an article about the national debt in the NYT.  The article gave a very good explanation Kadizzle recommends about what money it.   Money is a puzzle.  Basically. money is a belief.  It is total nonsense when you think about it.  You can give someone a piece of paper and they will give you a slice of pie with ice cream?  Money is nothing but faith.  Anyway read the article for an interesting spin.

The Most Honest Three Minutes In Television History

Rant Time

Trump endorses Burgum.  That is what the headline said. Make Kadizzle puke. In North Dakota you seek the endorsement of Trump.  The State of North Dakota has become hopeless when people take pride in standing with the worst president in history.  Trump has nailed it.  Trump snatched the title from Bush with glee.  To see ads on television where a couple of Bubba's brag they are Trump supporters and you should vote for them makes one wonder what we have come to.  North Dakota has dumbed down to an extent formally unimaginable.  The state sits on 6.8 billion dollars yet will not pay teachers, allows people to go without health care, and acts like it is broke.  The only purpose of the legacy fund in North Dakota is to insure the rich are not taxed.  If anyone suggest making the rich pay their share of taxes then the piggy bank will be broken into.  It has not come to that.  Kadizzle sits in Mercer county.  Mercer county is in the middle of the coal game in North Dakota. The evidence is overwhelming the coal game is coming to an end.  Just pretend it is not going to happen.  Just like we pretend climate change is not real.   The dolts in the Republican mafia could be proactive and try to find some new economic base. Kadizzle favors looking into nuclear power, but the dolts want to revive coal.

You must watch the video below. It will be on the test.

Click on video Below very good music

Trump Song Parody Blasts the President’s Many Misdeeds | NowThis

Camping at Cheyenne Mt. State Park

The dirty secret of capitalism -- and a new way forward | Nick Hanauer

Kadizzle is getting old. Sleeping seems to make him tired. Living in a body that is getting old is a chore. Awakened this morning stiff in the wrong places, and a back that would rather stay prone.

A New World

Old Grandpa Kadizzle gets a buzz out of seeing the offspring.  Too many times from the perspective of the children Kadizzle calls them with facetime to see the little monkeys in action.  Think about it, you can see Evie, Quinnie, and Sylvie just by firing up the little laptop.  Seeing those bugs always bring hope and cheer.  Those bugs are who we are fighting for.  As Trump does his best to destroy everything good about the world we have to fight back. Trump is destroying truth, education, the environment, and common decency.  What kind of world is Trump making for our grandchildren? Kadizzle is obsessed with this battle.  Republicans and their obsession with greed represent the worst plague of our lifetime.

There is enough food, medicine, shoes, wood, and power for every person on the planet.  The problem is one small group has take way more than their share.  Now call sharing any bad name you want.  Call it communism, socialism, or greedism.  It is simply the truth no matter how you slice it. If I eat all the cake there is no cake for you.  You can dance and sing, and say make more cakes, but the real solution is to share the cake.  Republican will never share voluntarily.  Governments whether you like it or not decide how things get distributed. Governments decide how much the greedy can take.  No matter what you label your government they are in charge of distribution.  When you say hands off to the rich stealing everything, they will.  That is what third world countries are about.  When you protect the rich you endorse their stealing.  Oh, no, its not stealing, they earned it.  Sure they did and Las Vegas earned the money in the slot machines.  Fooling stupid people is stealing.  Trump the con man has made stealing respectable.

Kadizzle tries something new

So far something new did not work.  Kadizzle is trying to post a video.  Maybe some time will make it work. If not just disregard this. 

Badlands Goodlands

Again yesterday Kadizzle and Winky headed to the Badlands.  Little by little we are doing the whole Ma De Hey Trail.  Although we have lived in North Dakota and visited the Badlands many times Kadizzle only recently realized how magnificent they are.  It hit Kadizzle like bird droppings on the head yesterday that the only way anyone would ever know how amazing this part of North Dakota is would be to get back into the Badlands.  The reality is there is no way except walking, riding a horse, or bicycle that you can get back into the wilderness. The Kadizzles have intensely covered about every inch of the western United States in a span of twenty years. The Badlands compares with the best of what we have seen. 

Two old people in their 70's buzzing through the Badlands on ebikes hitting speeds of close to twenty miles per hour.  The trails are no do da ride.  More than once we had minor crashes.  There are plenty of places you could make a mistake and end up over a cliff hurt or dead, but it is worth it.  So far we probably have knocked out somewhere in the range of thirty miles.

Now a little tourism rant.  The trails in the Badlands are a great accomplishment for North Dakota.  However, without the push from private people it would never have happened.  North Dakota has some wonderful opportunities for outdoor recreation, but getting the money for recreation from farmers is impossible.  Farmers drive tractors for fun, they do not hike, bike, or do anything that does not result in an ear of corn.

A thousand years ago Kadizzle moved to North Dakota with Winky.  We lived on a farmstead and got to know the farmer and his kids.  One summer the Dad bought an RV.  The family  was going to go on the first vacation ever.  Kadizzle and Winky were assigned to watch the farm.  The farm kids had never really been anywhere and Kadizzle could not wait to find out what their reaction to seeing mountains would be.  Dwight was the older boy.  On the return Kadizzle asked Dwight " Well what did you think of the Rocky Mountains?".  Dwight said " They were big, but they would be very hard to farm".   So back on the tractor.

Imagine running a restaurant.  Imagine budgeting 95% of your resources to advertise and 5% of your funds to fix up the restaurant.  That is North Dakota. North Dakota will spend a fortune for advertising, but will not actually put a cent into any recreation project.  If you could use the big lake, the Badlands or the Little Missouri people would love it.  The cost of trails is nothing, a little money spent on Lake Sakakawea could do miracles, but no, no, no we just want to farm.  What does North Dakota do? The state puts up fiberglass cows, fish, and metal pheasants along the highway.  Kadizzle is always amazed when he talks to people about Lake Sakakawea.  It is a man made wonder.  It is the third largest man made lake in the United States, but guess what?  Most of the people in the state know nothing about it or have never been there. Why?  There are no decent facilities there.  The lake cannot be utilized by anyone but fishermen.  The lake could have trails around the shore, it could have decent places to eat, some marinas, golf courses, and cabins, but no, we don't do that sort of thing, we just chase cows around.

A new Sailor

Kadizzle took the Jennie Rose out for a sail with Nick.  It brings joy to the heart to see a young guy embracing the joys of sailing.  Nick has done a great job restoring the boat and has had a lot of enjoyment out of it.  We sailed over to Mallard Island and Kadizzle showed Nick the anchorage.

Today Winky and Kadizzle will. once more go to the Badlands to ride the ebikes.  Sniffers are coming to look at the house so we had to get up early and do some dusting.  Selling a house in Hazen is like getting Trump out of office.  It takes persistance.

OK a little Trump ranting.  All of our problems stem form economic oppression.  Poor people riot, rich people don't.  As long as we have system that encourages greed and hate, we are doomed.  The solution is right there, tax the rich, provide jobs for the poor.  Trickle down doesn't work. Forced trickling does.  We can build roads, schools, homes, you name it and give people jobs so they can live a decent life, but when we build yachts for a few, mansions, for a few, and personal jets for a few we have a problem.   This is not rocket science. 

Yesterday Kadizzle tuned in to KFYR radio to see what hate the station was stirring up.  Scott Hennen the mini Rush Limbaugh was glorifying the NRA mentality.  Some Red Hat called in to say how he was protecting his store in Bismarck with armed friends.  Ya, sure , ya betcha.  When an NRA gun dinger goes nuts and plays army we will have a real mess on our hands.  Just a matter of time, and then you have KFYR radio, and Trump blowing the dog whistle.

The Earth Tilted

The planet must have tilted a lot during the night. The sun is coming over Kadizzle's right shoulder. That means the house has turned almost 180 degrees.  The sun has moved from the south side of the house to the north.  Hopefully the politics of this country will tilt to sanity and the fuhrer will die in his bunker.

Kadizzle is going to get dressed and head up to the lake for a sail with Nick.  Kadizzle helped the young aspiring lawyer refurbish the old Jennie Rose.  Winds look decent to do some nice sailing.  Nick said the boat was cooking along at seven knots the other day.  That is over hull speed which is fun to do.

Rant: Make those Christians dance

Few political stunts in Kadizzle's life have been as rank as Trump's little walk to the church yesterday.  His antics were disgusting in so many ways.  Here is a man who has never gone to church unless there was a payoff thumping the Bible.  Trump is the ultimate crooked preacher. The saddest part of this mess is how willingly the silly fundies let Trump pull their strings.  Sorry, but Kadizzle feels fundamentalist Christians are every bit as bad as Covid 19.  How many wars, and terror have been brought on by religion. How many times has religion been used to dupe the simple minded. To see Trump make the religious dance strikes fear in the heart of anyone with a mind.

It doesn't Hurt to ask

Kadizzle has tried to drill this into his families head, but he just had an excellent example.  The Kadizzle's have been having trouble with their internet service.  In the final service call they seem to have it fixed. As usual they say " Is there anything else I can do for you".  Yes, you can take $25 off my next bill. They did.  Went through the same thing with Verizon many times.  Verizon gave me $75 off.  When Kadizzle talks to these people he explains that if their service works 50% of the time, then he should only be charged 50% of the bill.  Why not turn the tables on the CEOs that walk off with billions?  Just about anyone will give you 10% off if you just ask.  Ten percent of everything you spend could end up being $10,000 or more.  Some people call Kadizzle cheap and Kadizzle reminds them that the store or other person asking you to pay too much is not embarrassed, why should you be.  Turns out Kadizzle has been a customer of Midco for 41 years.  They have made over $80,000 from Kadizzle.  So lets think about who is getting the best of who.  It don't hurt to ask.

A little riot story

Once upon a time some native Americans got upset that a pipeline was going through their land.  This was in North Dakota and not much happens here.  It became a national news item.  A standard practice that you can now see going is to blame out of state protestors.  This is always promoted by the Republicans.  Kadizzle came across a post on the facebook at the time.  A local kid who had become a police officer wrote on facebook that he was in a bank in Mandan, North Dakota.  He was in line behind a native American.  According to the police officer he saw the protestor cashing a check from Warren Buffet.  When Kadizzle pressed the person for details the story fell apart.  First, do you think protesters are paid with checks? Making up stories for the gullible to believe is standard procedure for Fox News.  When you use the same trick over and over even a dog will catch on. 

Berthold Bay

A sailing friend took this picture.  Old Kadizzle has spent hundreds of nights holed up in this spot.  May fond memories.  So many sailing tales around the campfire here. So nice to sail into this bay every spring.  Was there about a week ago. 

It was the best of Trails, the worst of Trails

Winky and Kadizzle had to lay low while the estate was shown in Hazen.  Off to the Badlands once more we headed with the ebikes.  In segments we have been doing the Ma Da Hey Trail.  On this trip we hit the jackpot.  The trail was just stunning.  North Dakota does have some wonderful spots.  Some of the turns were so sharp dropping down to the Little Missouri that you had to come to a complete stop at the switchback.  OK,  that is the good news.  Now the bad, in the infinite stupidity of regulations carried out to the extreme bikes cannot be taken into the wilderness portion of the Badlands.  Kadizzle generally agrees with this rule, but every rule has it's short comings.  In this case it meant somehow we had to skirt about two miles of the wilderness on bikes.  Now it was obvious other people had tried to do this, but what it meant was we had to take a bypass that pretty much, did not exist.  In fact it did not exist.  Pushing the bikes and riding through brush we were not able to get by the protected part of the park.  A couple simple solutions exist.  First they could build a bypass, second they could make an exception.  The trial we needed did briefly wander into the sacred territory.  If they let bikers use the sacred portion of the trail they would be on it for less than ten minutes.  The reality is no one is way back in that part of the Badlands except the people on foot and bikers.  It is just the classic case of an insane application of a rule.  The intent is good, but the outcome is not.  Anyway perhaps if Kadizzle becomes awake this morning he will ad a video or picture to this post later.

Swigert Class of 2020 Video (This is Sylvie's teacher, the absolute best)

Will Change Come?

You can dance, and spin, and hit them on the head, but they will not change.  Kadizzle is an old man.  It has taken 71 years to learn you cannot change society until people are cold and hungry.  If the great depression proved anything it is that change will only come with pain.  When people have had enough change will come.  Currently the spark may be ignited for change.  The root of the mess is inequality.  Kadizzle firmly believes capitalism must be changed or discarded for something that mandates sharing.  When so many do without while a few wallow in unneeded wealth we have a problem folks.  Let this sink in.  The four richest people in the United States have as much wealth as the bottom half of the country.  If that does not ring your bell, push some button in front of you to go to cartoons.  So you are a black person living in a slum.  What do you have to lose by showing your anger with a barbecue at Target? When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose. 

If people cannot see Trump is the flower at the top of the plant. Trump sits atop the rubbish heap of stench that got us in this mess.  There are none so blind as those that will not see.  Republicans have one goal and one goal only. Protect the rich, enrich the rich, it is that simple.  If you cannot see that push the cartoon button.

When Kadizzle goes to Denver he goes to Walmart.  At Walmart he engages a few black people to take their pulse.  Kadizzle wonders how they are going to vote, or if they are going to vote.  Kadizzle got his answer black people are voting with matches and bricks.  They have had enough.  Don't blame them.