Wonderful Outing

Three old goats rode through the badlands on the cycles.  The lord shown upon us.  We found a Garden of Eden trail rarely used by anyone.  Shanika and Stoupini were not up for going out of the canyon we descended into.  We had to take the long way around to avoid the steep road that let us descend.  We took a dead end road and met two Broke Back Mountain guys in a wonderful cove back in the boonies.  At last we got back to the truck.  The area around the Killdeer mountains is ablaze with color and a trip there is justified.  Back home a bachelor party.  Mrs Kadizzle is camping up below the dam so the three men had wonderful meat and potatoes with a salad.  As this is written Stoupini is at the grocery store getting the ice cream. Wonderful day.

Crazy Club outing

Shaneka is coming up from Mandan. Hopefully he will bring some goods from the bakery.  Stoupini, Kadizzle, and Shaneka will go on a motorcycle jaunt to the Badlands. Hopefully we can find some rugged roads for the dirt bikes.  Only a short meeting was held at the Crazy club yesterday and items still need resolved so the meeting will reconvene today.  Mrs Kadizzle went over to Rita's Crazy club to get the scoop on the squatter problem.  Rita and her husband Bingo bought some property with a house. The house is occupied by a drunken squatter.  The simple solution would seem to be just throw the guy out.  However, when you run a crazy club nothing is simple.  The squatter is rumored to have a gun and he is an ex felon.  Now to throw in some spice the squatter has a girl friend that visits.  Under the guise of doing laundry the girlfriend shows up and the practice making little squatters.  So if Rita doesn't get them out before the breeding is successful she may have a real infestation.

Mrs Kadizzle is all excited about her upcoming trip down into the Grand Canyon, so she is going to do a practice hike and sleep out tonight.  This is like practicing for a root canal.  Kadizzle maybe able to sleep all night with no snore kicks from the young peanut all night.

The Trump insanity goes on and on.  The New York Times has lost it's mind.  The NYT hates Trump so much almost every editorial is dedicated to pointing out what the crazy man is doing.  It is good reading and the Trumpster is insane.

The machine inside my brain.

Chicken meat on the highway

Around the equator of Kadizzle is an accumulation of chicken meat.  Only vigorous exercise can get the chicken meat off.  Yesterday Kadizzle decided to accompany Mrs Kadizzle on a bike ride.  Mrs Kadizzle was going to ride her Mountain bike at Harmony Lake.  Kadizzle cannot afford the expensive bikes Mrs Kadizzle has so he was going to ride his old beater from Hensler south.

The plan was to ride paved roads towards the boss. Kadizzle thought the road south on 1806 was paved, wrong.  Kadizzle ended up peddling 25 miles 15 of which took place on gravel.  The only salvation was the motor grader must have recently passed and made a nice smooth path on one side of the road.  In the end it was actually a pleasant ride. At home the scale indicated two or maybe three pounds of chicken meat may have fallen off onto the road.

One of the main purposes of that road is to get to Cross Ranch State Park.  Scenery along the road in the fall is very nice and the trip is recommended.  To get some water Kadizzle stopped at the park's boat ramp.  A couple old goats were having trouble getting their fishing boat back on the trailer so Kadizzle helped and we got it on.  A little upstream it  appeared an older couple had their fifth wheel set up right beside the river.  It looked like a great spot and tempted Kadizzle to do the same.

Off to the lake today to help get one more boat out.   The summer shot by and the sailing was limited.  Transition time is upon us.

One of those days

The clock on the microwave reads 5:33 A.M.  Kadizzle awakened at 3:30 from the usual strange dream.  Unable to get back to sleep Kadizzle tossed and turned until about 4:30.  The hell with it just get up and start the update.  There will be a crazy club meeting at 9:30.  Kadizzle stopped at Rita's crazy club yesterday afternoon. Kadizzled chided Rita that she needs some new members.  Rita finally has some help in the sewing shop.  Now Rita has two helpers.  One woman is younger and quiet.  The other older woman is a good cackler and full of laughs.  Rita is trying to move into some property she bought with her husband, but the house is infested with a bum.  The old owners were hoarders and Rita is having a hard time evicting them so she can move in.  Describing the bum that occasionally occupies the place it seems Rita has a potential member for her crazy club.  With one more cackler in the sewing shop the remeadigus will be improved.  Over at the library progress is being made on the new park.  Trees are getting planted.

What can you do at this hour of the morning?  First a littler updating on the Trump insanity.  Hard to believe we are living in this world where a man suffering from several forms of insanity is president, but here we are.

Kadizzle is considering the purchase of a 12 volt cooler/freezer.  Two companies make a very nice one, ENGEL and ARB.   However, they are not cheap, six to eight hundred dollars.  The Kadizzlites could use the thing in the car, one the boat, and as an adjunct to the Earth Module.  With extra freezer space the Earth Module may be able to go longer before grocery store refills.   A real bonus would be running the cooler from the solar panels.  That would mean we could boondock and still have plenty of cooling power.  On road trips it would be great to just plug the thing in and not worry about ice.  Just about have myself convinced.  It will probably take a big pair of pliers to pull the money from the wallet.  If anyone wants to buy this for our Christmas present go for it.

This is the great transition time of year.  We begin to get ready to head south. Mrs Kadizzle is all psyched up about her Havasupai hike in the Grand Canyon.  The energy bug wants to do a practice hike and camp up by the dam to try out her new pack and equipment.  In the back of his mind Kadizzle is still contemplating a trip back to hillbilly land.  Well time for more coffee and a check to see if the sun is up in Virginia. With the live cams on youtube Kadizzle can see if the sun has come up back East.  It may not come up, after all we elected Trump, so anything is possible.  Bulletin, good news the sun is coming up in Ashland, Virginia, we are OK.  

World Famous Horseshoe Curve Cam - Virtual Railfan LIVE

Watch this live feed. Maybe a train will go by . You will be amazed to see train loads of Chinese junk going to Walmart. The amount of crap we throw in the dump in our country is amazing.

Getting Older, and perhaps smarter

Mrs Kadizzle has been seriously caught up watching the Ken Burns Vietnam chronicle on PBS.  So many years later, and after so many friends were ground up the truth is laid out.  The whole thing was a massive fraud and mistake.  We never learn.   As you age you find out so many truths that were not known when you were young.  A lot of rotten stuff comes out that people pulled.  As people approach the goal post they are inclined to be honest, what do they have to lose?  What really happened, who really cheated, and that is how he made the money.  History has a way of percolating the truth to the top. It doesn't always work, but as an old man Kadizzle sees things with clarity that were in the fog as he grew old.  If more people would realize that " Know the truth, and the truth will set you free", then the world would be a better place.  Old people should have an obligation to tell the truth and what really happened.  There is one good exception.  When the truth does nothing but hurt someone, keep the secret.  On the other hand when light is shed on reality it usually is a good thing for humanity.  Scandals can open peoples eyes.  The priest abusing children, the stump preachers ripping off old ladies. If the ones helping these scoundrels would let light shine on the sins we could all learn.

Kadizzle was with an old politician awhile back.  The fellow told Kadizzle about some of the dishonest maneuvering of some of the old players, and some of the ones still playing. The old politician has noting to lose and Kadizzle gained some understanding about who is willing to compromise. Compromising is not always bad, but a deal with the devil rarely turns out good.  Currently in North Dakota we have Heitkamp, Hoeven, and Cramer making deals with the devil. Only time will tell, but will the time come when the deals are exposed?

History is something you learn from, but like fake news, there is fake history.  It is up to people with function brains to sort it out.

Boredom storms hitting the plains.

Well why not have a dream?  How about we buy a diesel trawler and putt around the Northwest.  In the last two years Kadizzle has been out there twice.  There is some trickery going on. Both times the weather was supreme.  That is how one gets tricked into a place and then goes there for nothing but rain and cold.

With strong opposition from Mrs Kadizzle another trip consideration is a fall hillbilly tour.  Mrs Kadizzle has a trip into the Grand Canyon for herself and her girlfriends planned. That means Kadizzle and Stroupini should be entitled to a hillbilly homecoming.

The big battle is boredom.  Sitting around North Dakota with a poor pheasant crop is not too exciting. One could work on house projects, but what fun is that.  One can get bored fighting Republicans and Fundies.  So who knows perhaps a coin toss is all that is needed. Soon blast off time will be here for the Southwest. 

White Supremacist

Cheech asked Kadizzle what was going on in this picture. This is what happened. Kadizzle was on the remeadigus making the rounds at the Crazy clubs.  Over at Shiny's club things were fairly normal. Stoupini and Kadizzle tossed around the idea of making a trip back to West Virginia to visit the hillbillies.  Then Kadizzle went over to Rita's Crazy club.  While talking to Rita a White supremacist came in the door.  We spoke for awhile about his hero The Donald.  Of course the supremacist was enthused about The Donald. He explained how The Donald was coming down hard on the welfare cheats, and getting the wall ready.

White supremacist like most Trump supporters will believe just about anything.  The poor fellow said he felt something crawling on his back.  Kadizzle said maybe he had a monkey on his back. Then Kadizzle offered to check and see what was on his back.  Kadizzle found a very large spider on him. Kadizzle told him there was a "Black lives Matter" spider on his back.  Kadizzle held up a mirror so he cold see it.  The fellow fainted and Kadizzle grabbed him before he fell to the floor.  While he was out Kadizzle flung the spider back to Rita and she tossed it in the other room.  Supremacist finally came back around.  The Supremacist asked what happened to the spider.  Kadizzle played dumb and said "What spider?".  " The one on my back".   Your delusional Kadizzle explained, you voted for Trump, and you will believe anything.  You need to quit watching Fox, and read The New York Times.  As he was shaking we got him some coffee.  He seemed to be better. He had come in to Rita's to have his Confederate Flag repaired for a rally.  Forget the flag repair he told Rita,  I am going to quit watching Fox News.

Insanity

Sorry to write about Trump, but cannot resist the urge.  Last night with lack of any entertainment Kadizzle watched the man in Alabama.  The level of his insanity is alarming.  The man is in love with himself.  When he is speaking in front of one of his Klan meetings you get what you would expect from a Wizard.  Trump tells the little children " There will candy, lots of candy, candy like you have never seen before".  The low IQ crowd lights with delight.  Listening to him is like hearing an adult talk to children about Santa Clause, monsters, and religion.  The saddest part is watching the crowd buy into his mental illness.  John McCain was mean to me, but I will let him play on our baseball team.  The news media is saying mean things about me, be you are my friends and you know it is not true, fake news.  Who, who can listen to this man or watch his crazy motions and not realize what they are seeing? "Fire the Son of a Bitch", that all of a sudden came out of the presidents mouth when he was whipping up the Hoopleheads.  Trump said owners need to fire players who do not respect the flag.  Trump loves to throw the candy.  Guns are candy to Hoopleheads.  So Trump every five minutes tells the Hoopleheads how he is protecting their guns.  Next to guns you can always get an erection from a redneck with some flag talk, so flag, flag, gun, gun, is half of Trumps presentation. As you watch he fawning idiots it is scary.  The dolts in the crowd chant  "lock her up".  The clown masters tell the dolts the need to talk to his attorney general.  This is equivilant to saying " He is as crazy as I am and can help you".   Trump is simply BFC.  The first word is Bug and the last word is Crazy.  The middle word is F***ing.  The man is simply and purely mentally ill, yet like Hitler people love the insanity.

Life is not stranger than you think

Albert Einstein once said " Life is not stranger than you think, life is stranger than you can think".  Albert was right.  Who would have thought we have a delusional nut case like the Donald for president.  Would anyone have imagined the conflict that might come from two crazy people, one in North Korea, and one in our own White House?

On a personal level look how life's events have unfolded.  How did you end up sitting in North Dakota?  Could you have ever imagined that you would go from your front porch in Wheeling, West Virginia to your backyard in Hazen, North Dakota?  A lot of strange twist and turns have taken place in 68 years.  Many people turned out far differently than one would have expected. People you knew who excelled in school turned out to be duds.  Several of the duds you knew turned out to be excellent business people and created fortunes from a vegetable stand.  Kadizzle grew up with a lot of privileged kids.  The children of the fortunate with many opportunities turned out to fail at a rate Kadizzle never would have predicted.  If one thing in life is predictable, it is that life is unpredictable.

Something always comes from nowhere and the world changes.  Strange connections take place and life turns.  Age is magic in some ways.  If you are fortunate enough to live long you get to see the end of a lot of movies.  Life is just a series of movies you are watching. We got to see how the cold war ended. We got to see how it went for Ben Laden.  Many people were pulled from the game before they got to see so much of history.  Mrs Kadizzle has been caught up watching the Ken Burns series on PBS about he Vietnam war.  A lot of truth is now public about how that mess actually took place. The people watching know things so many dead people don't. 

One thing history has taught over, and over is the ease with which people can be taken into an insane, hopeless, fake cause.  Sadly so many of us do not look back at Hitler, Lyndon Johnson, Nixon, and the whole cadre of mad men that have shaped the world.  Instead we get taken in over and over by the same false promises, the same bluster, the same cons.

The strangest phenomenon of all is the abundance on Earth.  There is enough food for everyone, there is enough material to provide decent housing for everyone,  the means are available to eliminate so much suffering, yet we do not. Instead we build tanks, walls, missiles, and bombs.  We let a very small portion of the planet live lavishly while children starve.  Nothing has changed in thousands of years.  There were tribes herding cattle in Africa two thousand years ago.  Every one in the tribe had enough to eat, a warm place to sleep and their only enemy was a lion.  Today trainloads of pure unadulterated crap are shipped from China.  As we bring boat loads of stuffed animals from China we have children living in slums, roads crumbling, and some silly rich guy telling us he is going to make America great by lying every day.

Simple minded dingers

Some people evolve, some people don't.  Perhaps humans attracted mates long ago by making loud noises, but is that still viable?  In our little town the simple minded like to drive about town making loud noises with their vehicles. One wonders if this was similar to ancient tribes where people danced and beat on drums. Somehow the current generation of dolts feels a loud noise means you are a masculine man looking for a mate.  This is all well and good until Kadizzle tries to go to sleep with the window open, or sit on the back porch and enjoy a glass of wine.  Almost always a simple minded dolt with his noise machine will destroy the tranquility.  On the lake some of the dolts have loud boats designed to be heard for  miles. Of course the local gendarmes do absolutely nothing to silence the dolts.  Apparently the simple minded never tire of making the engines roar.  Now everyone of us probably put some baseball cards on our bike and let them make noise on the spokes. This was fine for a six year old, but when a guy fifty has to roar his mean motorcycle he has a brain deficit that needs attention.  Some of the dolts have taken stupidity to a new level.  Not only do the certified dolts emit noise they have modified their dolt mobiles to emit a huge cloud of black smoke. In the dolt tribe the larger your exhaust pipe the bigger your penis.  So the dolts competing for simple minded dolt women put two huge smoke stacks behind the cab of their doltmobile.  Next the drive around blasting noise and pollution.

On the noise front Kadizzle has a solution for the dolts. Kadizzle can sell the dolts a CD. The CD has loud engine noises recorded. The dolt merely puts on headphones and plugs into his CD player. Now the dolt can hear his obnoxious noise, but no one else has to listen.

Superstitious Pigeons

Can a pigeon be superstitious? Well it seems possible. Yesterday Honest Omar gave Kadizzle a reading assignment. Omar and Kadizzle have always wondered how people come to believe absurdities.  In his book Michael Shermer gives the answer a good shot. The Believing Brain tries to explain how people don't have much trouble connecting things that are not connected. Isn't that what religion is all about. God made it rain, god caused the hurricane, and god helped my team win the supper bowl

A pitcher in a baseball game wins on the day he does not shave, so he concludes not shaving and winning are related. The mind wants a quick simple answer, so does the pigeon. The pigeon spins around in its cage and food appears. The pigeon concludes there is a connection.  There is not. The food just randomly appears, but the pigeon is fooled.  All of this perfectly explains Trump voters.  They connect dots that are not connected.  Obama was born in Kenya. 

How does the brain work? How do we make decisions?  People rarely sit back and ponder exactly how they arrive at a conclusion. One would want to think about how we think, but one rarely does. The brain is pretty easy to trick.  Magicians, Republicans, and con artist make a living tricking the simple minded. 

The author explains how he was unborn again.  At one point the author was a bible thumper going door to door selling Jesus.  The author ultimately had science run into religion. Science made the dots connect with data and logic.  In the end the logical mind had to go with science. 

One question the author addressed was is religion harmful.  Yes, the author gave an example of a little girl killed as part of a religious cleansing. This was minor compared to all the hate and wars that have been brought on by the curse of religion.  Remember religion endorsed slavery.  In conclusion people will always go for the discount thinking of religion, Republicanism, and trickle down economics.  Real thinking takes a little effort. You have to question things, you have to look things up, you have to do research.  It is far easier just to join the make America great club.  It is so simple just to believe a bunch of lies from preachers and Trumpsters.  Why not take the easy route?

The Good Ship is on the hard

After a long day, and a lot of time trying to tie a knot under water the good ship is again on shore and in the process of being readied for the winter.  With his famous addled mind Kadizzle forgot to get all the sewage out of the holding tank.  So this pleasant job will have to be done in an awkward fashion.  Mrs Kadizzle cannot conceptualize a person forgetting something.  Laying in bed discussing the matter Mrs Kadizzle was getting on his excellencies nerves.  Mr Kadizzle uses the same nuclear missile every time to remind Mrs Kadizzle she is not infallible.  A couple years back Mrs Kadizzle backed our recently purchased car into a young man's car.  Now anyone can make a mistake, but Mrs Kadizzle did it in a special way.  Mr Kadizzle knew the possibility existed that someone would back into the renters car, so gave the renter very specific instructions where to park the car.  Mrs Kadizzle over rode Mr Kadizzles instructions and told the renter how to park in the ideal place where she could back into his car.

Mr Kadizzle bought the Toyota because it has several good safety features. First, it has a backup camera, so you can see what is behind you. Failure number one for Mrs Kadizzle.  Second it has a beeping alarm to warn you if you are going to back into something.  Failure number two for Mrs. Kadizzle.  Add in the third element whereby Mr Kadizzle had the renter park in a safe place.  When Mrs Kadizzle did the damage there were three safety systems working to prevent the disaster. Mrs Kadizzle defeated all three.  If Mrs Kadizzle happens to read this you will hear an explosion in the surrounding area.

Mr Kadizzle spent his entire life trying to prevent accidents.  In the course of his career as a safety director many stories went across the desk about people who defeated safety systems.  Kadizzle can remember the dragline operator who stuffed a rag in the alarm horn that was to tell him he was about to create a mechanical disaster.  A chain is only as strong as it's weakest link.

"Killing The Blues" Robert Plant & Alison Kraus

Trump and the Chicken man

There is an old story back in the hills about a man that went out in his yard every morning and acted like a chicken.  His act bothered the neighbor woman and one day the neighbor confronted the man's wife about the bizarre behavior of her husband.  The wife of the chicken man explained that her husband wasn't hurting anyone, and said “besides they could use the eggs”.

The man’s wife was an enabler.  In North Dakota Trump has his enablers, Hoeven, Cramer, and Hietkemp.  Sure Trump is not quite right, but he does serve a purpose for our congressional delegation.  Trump gives our representatives an in with his base.  Trump’s base believes he can lay eggs, you just have to be patient.

Is Trump harmless?  Not much gets done while we wait for the eggs.  Trump’s unwillingness to address  climate change is helping to melt the planet, and his unpredictability has caused chaos in the world.  Enjoy the omelet when it comes.  Just remember how an omelet is made, a lot of broken eggs stirred randomly with other things thrown together.

Very Sad

Bill Moyers does and interview with one of the 27 psychiatrist that wrote about the mental illness of Donald Trump. Kadizzle just read the interview. Anyone who doubts Donald Trump has some serious mental illness needs to read the article. The writers of the book wrote the book because they felt they had a professional obligation to warn the country.  "The Dangerous case of Donald Trump" is the title of the book.  Simply reading Moyers interview should be enough to scare you.

The dangerous part of Trump's mental problem is the problem gets worse as the adulation from his following of dolts reinforces his delusions.  Supposedly sane people who think they can change him play along with his lies.  In North Dakota the mini psychopath Kevin Cramer is the perfect example. Cramer wants to help with the wall.  In North Dakota you have a radio station that broadcast to idiots for hours on end lies, and Rush Limbaugh delusions.  Respectable companies that should boycott the station do not.  That is a contradiction, they are not respectable companies.  A lot of people cuddled up with Hitler, it did not turn out well.

How to Punch a Nazi

What does it take?

More than likely if you are reading this you have been on the planet for well over fifty years.  In those years you have seen a lot of people.  Even the dumbest person reading this has learned to recognize when " That boy aint right".   People make every excuse or rationalization for Trump imaginable, but the simple truth is the man is mentally ill.  So many people are working so hard to imagine there is some logic or cleverness at work in a mind that has rotted to the core.

In our small society of Mr and Mrs Kadizzle we have a saying  " Even a blind hog will root".  Even a blind hog can find an acorn. That does not mean the hog can see.  It means the hog stumbled across and acorn. Trump is a classic bling hog.

There is no consistency to Trump, except he will be inconsistent.  His supporters struggle to explain how they stick with him. The hardest job his supporters have is covering his lies and his flip flops.  What does it take before people will admit they made a terrible mistake.  Kadizzle always thinks of the people in Germany getting fire bombed.  Imagine the horrific scene of a German city turned into and oven for the population. Imagine the German people thinking about the man who was going to "Make Germany great again"?  Are we really that stupid, are we really this ignorant of history? Yup, all we do is watch Fox News, and listen to Rush.  When will the cities burn?

Solomon Burke-"Diamond in Your Mind" from "Don't Give Up on Me"

I shook the hand of the president and the pope in Rome
I've been to parties where I've had to be flown
They said everything was sacred, nothing was profane
And money was something that you throw off the back of trains

Oh always keep a diamond in your mind
You gotta always keep a diamond in your mind
Wherever you may wander
Wherever you may roam
You gotta always keep a diamond in your mind

Steam of the gravy with little fried pearls
Floating like a necklace on a beautiful girl
Johan says thanks to the food and land
And oh so ever grateful for God's on my hands

Oh always keep a diamond in your mind
Always keep a diamond in your mind
Wherever you may wander
Wherever you may roam
You gotta always keep a diamond in your mind

She's got the milk of human kindness and the fat of the lamb
Scared like a baby, well she drives like a man
She lives outside of Natchez where she operates a crane
She's like a wrecking ball no longer connected to the chain

Oh Zerelda Samuel said she almost never prayed
Said she lost her right arm, blown off in a Pinkerton raid
Then they lashed her to a windmill with old 3-fingered Dave
Now she's 102 drinking mint juleps in the shade

Everybody, always keep a diamond in your mind
You gotta always keep a diamond in your mind
Wherever you may wander
Wherever you may roam
Your gotta always keep a diamond in your mind

Always keep a diamond in your mind
Always keep a diamond in your mind
Wherever you may wander
Wherever you may roam
Your gotta always keep a diamond in your mind

Always keep a diamond in your mind
Always keep a diamond in your mind
Wherever you may wander
Wherever you may roam
Your gotta always keep a diamond in your mind

Always keep a diamond in your mind
Always keep a diamond in your mind