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)