Cold in Arizona

 Kadizzle stays in touch with some friends back in the arctic, North Dakota that is. Shanika called to say every road in the state was closed. Honest Omar is holed up in his house, and a few of the smart ones like Dina escaped. 

The Kadizzles have turned into cakes. We now believe 30 degrees is cold. Kadizzle can remember going to the hardware store back in Hazen when the wind chill was 125 degrees below zero. Kadizzle needed a 2x4 for some reason.  At the hardware store Kadizzle could not tie the piece of lumber on the car because his fingers would freeze so badly and so quickly. 

Twice when we returned to North Dakota in the spring the sewer line six feet under the ground was frozen. It was not unusual for the ground to freeze six feet deep in North Dakota. 

In our new home they don't even insulate the pipes in the crawl space. Almost everyday it warms up so we can be comfortable sitting in the sun. Worst case scenario we can drive down to the Earth Module at the lake and gain ten or fifteen degrees. We are spoiled. 

Arizona, vs Florida. Arizona has mountains, various terrain, and plenty of variety. Florida has a flat boring plain, with terrible storms. Arizona has some flash flooding, but no real weather threats like Florida. Florida has little appeal to hard core outdoor enthusiast. Arizona has all sorts of recreational challenges. Both states are plagued with right wing infestations of Hoopleheads. Both state have way to many old goats.  Florida has Trump, and Arizona has little Trumpets that want to be as obnoxious as him. 

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Dearest Hoopleheads

 Dearest Hooleheads, you lord and savior Donald Trump has finally provided you with unrefutable proof he is insane. Selling his shills trading cards must have finally proven to you the man is nuts. A grifter like Trump has never existed before. His willingness to bilk the Hooples has never been surpassed by any con man before. If you have not looked into to his latest scam, please do so immediately. Never has anyone shown the audacity of Trump to rob his followers in his latest schoolyard scam. Even the most loyal Hoople cannot be dumb enough to buy a trading card from Trump for 99 dollars. If you suspected you were an idiot when you voted for the scoundrel, now you no longer need to question your stupidity. You have the sympathy of Kadizzle, you have clearly be taken by the con man. 

Are the rich mistreated?

Over the course of months Kadizzle has become acquainted with Mr. Republican. Kadizzle and Mr. Republican like to go around in circles arguing about political matters. Mr. Republican is a little different than most of the Hoopleheads, he does do some homework. 

To save keystrokes Kadizzle is just going to call him MR.  With a good preacher and distorted imagination you can make the Bible work. For religion to work you have to be willing to accept things that don't make sense. The job of the preacher is to help you believe the unbelievable. 

Republicans would have the Hoopleheads believe the rich are oppressed by the poor. The poor are living off the backs of the rich. MR brought old Kadizzle data to show him the rich pay way more taxes than they actually do. 

Kadizzle debated with himself if he should spend the time with MR showing him how Republicans have painted a false picture. In the end it would probably be a waste of time. MR has too much invested in Republicans lies, just like the religious have a great deal invested in their delusion. With Republicans and the religious the trick is to trick the Hoopleads. Churches have always taxed their participants. Mormons are walking off with 10%.  Stump preachers have made millions fooling the Hooples. Republican policy is just a political religion. 

There is an old saying " follow the money".  Who has the money? In Las Vegas the casino has the money. Of course they tell you that you can win, but all the evidence is you are going to lose. Republicans tell you it is the welfare cheat that is taking  your money, but who has the money? Sure as hell it is not the welfare cheat. 

The suffering rich. Asking billionaires or any of those who are filthy rich to pay taxes is an intrusion on their right to steal. A simple question might be how are the rich suffering from paying too much tax? MR keeps providing data about what percentage of taxes the rich pay. No matter how much tax you paid if you end up with half of everything the system seems to be working for you. What is it the 1% want, that they don't have? A bigger yacht, more houses, an island? Exactly what are the rich being deprives of MR?

When you tell a Hoople the richest 400 families own half of the country the information shoots in one ear and out the other. 

How do you get rich? If you have one lawnmower and you push it all day, you will not get rich. On the other hand if you have 25 lawnmowers and 25 people to push them, you are on your way. You pay the 25 people $10 an hour and charge the homeowner $15  an hour. So now you are making $125 an hour.  One of the guys pushing the lawnmower is going to come up to you and say " how come you get so much more than us?".  This is where the fiction begins. First you say " because I own the lawnmowers".  Second you tell Willy, " You would not even have a job if had not been for me letting you push the mower, now get to work,".  The fiction just builds from there. Republicans will bend and twist this scenario until you feel sorry for the billionaires. 

The greatest trick in tax illusions is getting the Hooples to believe next week they will be rich. Kadizzle had a conversation with the owner of a small business who was doing ok, but not rich. We got into the tax discussion. The fellow admitted the tax structure favored the rich, but was sure soon he would be rich so it was OK. The idiots playing the lottery all think. Sure I am getting screwed today, but next week when I get my billion I sure as hell don't want to be taxed. It works. Jesus walked on water, and the rich are paying their share of taxes. Ya sure, ya bettcha. 

One thing Kadizzle would like to point out to MR is about the definition of a welfare cheat. If you ask a Hoople what a welfare cheat is they will tell you it is a person who gets a check for money they did not earn. Now have some fun with your favorite Hoople. Ask the Hoople what is the difference between a trust baby, and a welfare cheat. They both get money they never worked for. Both are technically welfare cheats. The only difference is the Trust baby gets a huge check and the welfare cheat gets a meager check. Although neither the welfare cheat or the trust baby ever worked they both are put in different social classes. The welfare cheat is scum, and the son of daddy rich guy is a wonderful boy. The Hoople will explain to you how this is all gods will, but the Hoople will not realize the rich guy created generations of welfare cheats. Rich people who did nothing but inherit money. One unique thing about Hooples is they have no concept of history. Kadizzle has a friend in North Dakota with money. Where did it come from? If you trace it backwards it came from a plantation north of New Orleans. If you trace back where the major fortunes in the U.S. came from you will always find it was abused coal miners, steel workers, share croppers and so on. Now MR will tell you the rich are being abused. MR somehow forgot about all the people abused so the rich could be rich. 

The Virtue of small towns

Here Kadizzle sits in our new home. This morning the NYT featured some homes you could buy for $880,000. This made Kadizzle reflect on the homes we have lived in. Our first home in Hazen sold for about $275,000. In other parts of the country it would have sold for 1.5 million or at least $800,000. Our current home in Payson seemed costly to us old misers, but again it is a bargain after Kadizzle saw what you had to pay for a home in the North East, or some other places.  If you want sticker show look at the pathetic apartment you get in NYC for a million. 

Poor people have been priced out of life, and the Republicans will not be happy until the peasants are enslaved. Reflecting on life Kadizzle realizes the virtues of a rural life. Never was there a hassle driving to work in North Dakota.  When you live in a small town in a state with a small population the government is very accessible. You know and go to the chief of Police, the mayor, and even the highest elected officials. 

Kadizzle will tell an old story. When we first moved to North Dakota a car dealer said in his ad on the radio that if you bought a car from him on a certain day you would get $100 of free gas.  Kadizzle did not know about the ad on the radio and bought a car from that dealer. On the way home in the new car Kadizzle heard the ad. Kadizzle called the car dealer and said what about the free gas. The car dealer said " You made too good a deal, you don't get the gas".  Kadizzle called the state attorney general, and got him on the phone. He said he would take care of it.  In a day or two we got a check from the car dealer for the $100. Cannot imagine that happening in any other state. Kadizzle heard many times of people who called the governor and he answered the phone. 

Kadizzle would never live in a large city. If there is something in a large city Kadizzle needs, he will drive there and then leave. We are about sixty miles from Phoenix. Rarely do we even get close. The traffic is insane, and the concept of road rage is in full bloom. Who needs that nonsense. Up here in our mountain home the population is less than 20,000. You can quickly get around by bike or car and the town has just about all you need. 

One downside to the rural areas are the rednecks and Republicans. The other day Kadizzle started to have a go around with Jesus down at the Jesus thrift store. Jesus pulled out his phone and showed a map of the U.S.  Most of it was colored red to show where the Republicans were. It was supposed to show Kadizzle that Republicans rightfully owned the country.  Kadizzle pointed out to Jesus that the Republicans populated the areas with low education, high poverty, and were in states that sucked up welfare. Jesus did not understand that the blue on the map was smaller than the red, but the blue represented the people who sent checks to the red. The blue were the most educated productive people feeding technology to the Hoopleheads in the hinterland.  If someone accidently gets smart in Hoopleville they move to the blue areas.  Both daughters gave up on the backward thinking of North Dakota. Jesus is down at the thrift store busted flat and his ma is sitting there waiting for the Republicans to steal her social security. They love Trump and are pretty sure the real Jesus sent him. 

This brings us to the Jehovah's down at the park. It was cold yesterday, but they were recruiting people to get on the heaven bus. As usual Kadizzle gave them grief about not voting. Old Jehovah came up with the same spiel that God will take care of everything, and they did not need to vote. Kadizzle explained what a cop out that line is. When Mrs. Kadizzle tells Kadizzle to do the dishes he says " Whatever God wills".  Often God does not will Kadizzle to do the dishes or run the vacuum cleaner. Turning your life over to God is the most blessed excuse, you give up responsibility for everything. If the car runs out of gas it was God's will. No matter what you do you have no responsibility. Instead of doing something useful to help people the old Jehovah's are sitting there freezing their ass off trying to sell a membership to heaven.  It seems a good God would will them to help some poor old lady with preparing for the cold weather. But apparently God willed them to sit in the cold with pamphlets.  

Thank God

In the earlier post this morning Kadizzle related the story about the Spanish lost in the southwest. One constant in the story is thanking God for every bit of good fortune. A strange thing is God is never blamed for all the misfortune. Pouring the second cup of coffee this reminded  Kadizzle of the Trump cult. Trump is given credit for many things he had nothing to do with. On the other hand anything that goes wrong is blamed on Biden. This is exactly how religion, and cults work. You give the credit to the leader for all good and of course Satan does all the bad. For Trump it is impossible to lose. 

Yesterday Kadizzle stopped in at the Hooplehead nest on main street. There he got a dose of the cult. Grandma Hoople was sitting there with her cane. She said Hunter Biden got a billion from China. No evidence for that and Kadizzle asked where she got the information. On her phone of course. When granny was asked about Trump stealing 25 million from colleges students the answer was easy. It is not true. Anything bad reported about Trump is fake news. Her son is the guy who has the earth rotating on two axis. Kadizzle explained to granny how the Republicans were plotting to destroy social security. Of course it did not penetrate the concrete shell of grannie's head that the very party she supported her intended to starve her to death. 

Simply ignoring reality is a great life style. If you can just imagine your slum trailer as a castle things will be fine. 

Kadizzle has been enjoying watching old W.C. Fields clips on youtube. W.C. Fields always played the part of a con man. W.C. Fields could easily be elected president by the Hoopleheads. 

Someone should dub Trump into the old W.C. Fields films, it would be hilarious. 

Might have to post a clip below of Fields conning someone. Just to remind you of Trump and the Hooples. 

As you watch the clip below think of Trump and his tax cheating. The best line by Fields is " I hope that satisfies your morbid curiosity".  This is so much like Trump who promised five years ago to show his taxes once elected he never did. W.C. Fields would be a hit at the Tea Party. What a normal person can plainly see a Hooplehead cannot. The Hoople will always take the lie over the truth. A secret of con men is telling people what they want to believe. That is why con is short for confidence. A confidence man bolsters the wrong beliefs in the Hooples and gains their confidence. 

One unique thing about the Hoopleheads is their idea that once you do something stupid you can correct it with more stupidity. Gambling is a perfect case. Once you lose one hundred dollars you need to spend another hundred to get it back. So it goes with Trump's lies. Once Trump fools you the only way out is to believe his next lie. 

Excerpt from My Chickadee

Lost

For a long time Kadizzle has puzzled about a couple of Spanish explorers who became ship wrecked and wandered the southwest. Last night Kadizzle found the written account of one of the men and has been reading about their existence. Their survival was amazing. Eventually they were rescued. 

What has always intrigued Kadizzle was the fact that these men may have wandered into what is now New Mexico and Arizona. So what? Long ago Kadizzle saw some stone work that seemed of such excellent quality it stood out from then normal stone work of the native Americans. Also the stone work had a strange quality. The walls were finished on both sides and in between was filled with rubble. This was very much like the castles in Europe were built. Could the wandering Spanish have educated the natives about new building techniques?

Kadizzle has a long way to go in reading the account, but it has been very interesting. The main food of the natives seems to have been prickly pair cactus. The journey started in Florida and life there was very harsh. The Spaniards wandered naked for much of their journey and suffered from cold and hunger constantly. 

According to the account the natives were incredible with a bow and arrow, and the arrows easily pierced the armor of the Spanish. 

It is six A.M. and that is the first report from the engine room.  

Daddylonglegs

 As kids there was some spider we called Daddylonglegs. It had longlegs and scooted across he water. Now we have named the Snoochel, Daddylonglegs. Why? Very simple she has grown like a weed and is now taller than her mom, and she just keeps growing. 

Grandpa always likes to brag about Daddylonglegs, so here goes. She is in the Denver School for the Arts. A girl of many talents one of them is acting. The other night we face-timed her and got to have her perform her different accents. Her aunt Megan had a talent for watching people and doing perfect imitations. Daddylonglegs has the same skill. They can both make you laugh every time. 

The accent routine consisted of the Southern Belle, The Irish woman, and the British woman. All were very amusing. Since Kadizzle is part hillbilly perhaps Daddylonglegs can master that one. 

We warned her mom about the teenage years. Now, they are upon us, and the game of dealing with a teenage girl is full on. 

One more time

 The Earth spun around and it is another day. The fellow down at the Jesus thrift store says the Earth rotates on two axis. Kadizzle knows one axis brings us another day. Maybe that other axis takes us from morning until noon. 

A skiffle of snow fell last night. Not much in the Payson roundup except we are winning the drug contest. Payson has twice the overdose rate of most of Arizona. Once you are busted flat from living on substandard wages the last paycheck you use to buy an overdose. 

Kadizzle is amazed at the Sackler family and how they made billions creating the opioid problem. Small drug dealers go to prison, the Sacklers go to the art galleries they funded. 

Big lairs also do better than small ones. Trump and Fox showed how lying big time pays way better than small lies. 

Winky is down at the lake. Kadizzle is home alone. Today is casino day and Kadizzle will get to see the Hoopleheads being robbed. Watching simple minded Hooples pour their social security checks into the slot machines is painful. 

An old friend was going to fund his retirement with lottery tickets. Didn't work to well. The big winners are the warriors. The Apaches have a very nice recreation center here they built with Hoople money. So maybe after they get their pockets cleaned the Hoopleheads can go to the warrior pool and get their skin cleaned. 

The big science news is the breakthrough with energy. Fusion may be on the horizon. It will shake up the world. Most likely Kadizzle will never live to see it, but you can be sure the Republicans will be against it for several reasons. First, any change is against going the favorite direction of Republicans, backwards. Republicans love pollution, big oil companies and lobbyist to bribe them. Fusion is complicated and Republicans prefer simple things like sex rings or Hunter Bidens laptop. They can understand a conspiracy theory, but Frank will have trouble understanding fusion. 

This brings us to a story in North Dakota. A classic Hooplehead story. One of the call in radio stations in North Dakota was discussing the time zones in North Dakota. It was always a problem. The Missouri River splits North Dakota in half and that was the time zone line. That situation created a lot of chaos. Kadizzle worked on Central Time, and Mrs. Kadizzle and the kids lived on Mountain time. The clock on one side of the bed was an hour earlier than the other.  All the coal mines and power plants operated on Central time even though they were actually on Mountain time. It was a mess. 

Back to the story. An old Hooplehead woman from Dickinson called the radio station and said " We are in the middle of a drought, and they want to add another hour of daylight?".  You often wonder how the mind of  a Hooplehead works, but this may explain it. A Hooplehead will generally look for a simple explanation to a complex problem. Usually it backfires. The classic is creating prosperity by giving the rich more money. That inherently makes no sense, but eh Hoopleheads suck it up. 

Hooplehead Cowards

More than likely if Kadizzle has a problem with someone he will walk up to them and discuss the problem. This is good policy.  In their heart the Hoopleheads generally know they are confused, and their minds are rotted with Fox News toxicity. 

 Contrary to the rumors the Hooples spread Kadizzle has never become violent with anyone. That means if you are a Hooplehead you can approach Kadizzle and discuss what is on your mind. This brings us to anonymous cowards. There are occasions where being anonymous is appropriate, but when you make false accusations it is not appropriate. One good thing about confronting someone directly is it gives everyone a chance to expound on their version of the truth. Rumors rely on people unwilling to confront the truth. 

Look at the silly rumors the Hooples have spread. Hillary is running a sex ring out of a pizza parlor. Hunter Biden's laptop is the cause of most world problems. 

You can find the truth if you wish. However, with 30,000 lies by Trump the truth is not something the Hooples want to look into. 

To summarize if you are a coward hiding behind the anonymous label, spreading falsehoods, step up, come out of the dark and talk to me. I will tell  you the truth as I know it. On the other hand the next time you make a false comment look in the mirror and decide what label you want to put on the face you see. I suggest cowardly little liar. More than likely if you have this problem you also have a handgun. Take that gun and point it at the mirror. Pull the trigger. Make sure the gun is pointed at the mirror. If you chose to point it at yourself because of your shame, point it in your ear. If you chose the mirror maybe you will wake up to your problem. If you chose your ear, you may not wake up, but at least one liar will be able to join Trump in hell. 

The snow fell

 If you looked down from heaven on Payson you would see white haired heads. Snow has filled in the gaps between the white hair. Snow is rare, but it happens. It will not last long. That is the whole point of living here. 

The Kadizzles could generate some excitement if they tried to get down the steep hill that leads to our mountain top retreat. Today will be a transportation lesson.

Kadizzle has been slowly building a bridge to nowhere, or a bridge too far.  Access to the land to the west of us is cut off by a drainage ditch. Kadizzle decided to put a large culvert in the ditch and build stone abutments to focus the water. Like all projects around here it is getting done in stops and starts. 

This week the Democrats are re-organizing in Payson. Kadizzle may attend the meeting. Democrats desperately need to recruit young people. Going to any political meeting here is like going to a nursing home. Old people only seems to be the sign on the door. 

Democrats will make a massive mistake if they don't run someone other than Biden. Kadizzle has no big problem with Biden, but he is just too old. The future belongs to the young, and the old have a tendency to destroy the future. Old rich white guys are worse than rattlesnakes. Old people have old ideas. The times they are a changin. 

The generation of Kadizzle has robbed the young blind. We soak up social security we often don't need. That money comes from young people struggling to afford a family. Income inequality is crushing democracies. The Republican money shovel to the rich is going to implode and the sooner the greedy rats are dealt with the better. Kadizzle worked in a time when unions thrived. Republicans wiped out unions. Unions were the only defense against unthrottled greed. Now 400 families own half the country, and Frank loves it. 

Trump's ship seems to be sinking, praise Jeeeesus. When the Hooplehead the other day acknowledged Trump was done it was a sign from God.  At the Hooplehead convention on Tuesdays maybe it is the imagination of Kadizzle, but the Trump idiot hats seem to be fading. 

Trump has apparently got a new gun to shoot his feet off. Even the hard core dolts are having trouble spinning his friendship with racist and anti semitic pals.  Kadizzle asked Hoople what he thought about Trump abandoning the Constitution. Hoople was sort of lost for words but tried to use some of the old standbys like, well he didn't really mean it, or that is not exactly what he said, or he just wanted to get rid of the parts that kept him from being king.  Ask a Hooplehead yourself if you want a little fun. 

The Dish guy came

A young guy 26 showed up this morning to fix the Dish television system. Surprising Kadizzle he said he had two kids and a wife. Kadizzle had the audacity to ask him how much Dish pays him. It turned out to be a little under $20 an hour. Wait, this poor guy is going to raise a family on $20 an hour? Those are 2022 inflated dollars. Meanwhile the CEO of Walmart is making $8,000 an hour. The highest paid person in every state government is the football coach at the university. What is wrong with this picture. 

To retire Mr. Dish will need maybe four or five million inflated dollars when he reaches 62.  Do the math. How will Mr. Dish raise two children and save four or five million dollars to retire? Not going to happen. There is a train wreck coming Frank, and you and the Tea Party are shoveling money to the rich with the help of Donald Trump, Kari Lake, and Blake Masters. 

The social safety net is already in tatters, and Republicans want to make it worse. One bout with a health problem and you are cooked. 

Flast to North Dakota.  A friend who is a preacher has a son in law with cancer. The preacher friend is trying to raise money for the cancer problem with a go fund me program. Both the son in law and his wife have been working all their life, now cancer is busting their future. Only in the United States do we give the rich tax breaks while the poor go broke with cancer.  This is what the Republicans have brought us Frank. 

The Cults

Kadizzle is 73.  During those 73 years Kadizzle has encountered a few cults. Back in West Virginia there was a famous cult of the Hari Krishna. They built an incredible edifice, and were involved in drugs, sex, and murder  Also back in the East Kadizzle encountered some Amish, another amazing cult. Now it is hard to avoid the Mormon cult, and the Jehovah's are always down in the park.  Payson has the Tea Party Cult, a subdivision of the Trump Cult. 

Cults always have some outlandish idiocy all members believe in. Almost always there is some mythical figure who they all believe is magic. The cult members love having a god they can see. Sometimes the god guy claims to be outright god, but then usually the cult leader claims a special relationship to the all mighty. The Pope is a classic case. In fact the Catholic Church invented the whole cult idea. 

Cults usually have a theme. The Tea Party cult like the idea of being attacked by the " radical left".  The Mormons sell a goofy heaven where you get to become god of your own planet. These cults operate a lot like pyramid schemes. You bring in more people willing to believe and you get to move up in the cult. 

The most important thing for a cult member is being willing to give up on reality.  What could be better than inventing your own world? If you want to believe in your own world the best thing would be to have a bunch of other people who believed in the same nonsense you do. Fox News made a fortune bringing cult members together. Alex Jones, has a marvelous cult. 

The real magic of cults is you get to say, I am not the only crazy person that believes this nonsense. Cults operate on the idea that if you have enough people believing something then it is true.  Unfortunately is does not work. All those cults that predicted the end of the world have failed. The Trump cult is on the ropes, even the Hooplehead admitted it yesterday. 

Cults have to be careful.  A cult must stay away from things that can be proven. That is why religious cults work so well. You can prove Trump lies. You can prove Alex Jones lied, and you can prove Fox News is built on lies. Eventually even the dumbest Hooplehead can smell a lie. 

Cults always abuse people. The most common abuse is bilking the cult members of money. Trump does it, the Mormons do it, and so does every cult. One strange thing about cults is the hypocrisy. Cult leaders almost always live a life of luxery while they bilk the unwashed. 

Mundane Things

 We will awaken to another nice day. It will get cold in the near future, that is cold for Arizona. We are spoiled for nice weather. Perhaps we are getting even for all those winters in North Dakota. 

Sylvie the 13 year old granddaughter is a wonderful actor, she should be, since attends the Denver School for the Arts. Last night we had a great time watching here on facetime do her various accents. She is good at it. The Irish accent was the special last night.  Just like her aunt Megan she is great at studying the nuances of people and doing imitations. Megan used to have the same ability to watch someone and then mimic them. Megan even used to mimic her dad. It is hard to be mad at someone when they confront you with you. 

We live in a dynamic neighborhood.  Everyone is moving into a newly built home. The Kadizzles went through the frustration of waiting and waiting to get into our new home much later than we were ever told. Three new houses in our little circle are about 98% done, and some little thing keep them from completion. Cannot get shingles for one home, another is lacking fixtures, and the one to the west must be lacking a toothbrush, it seems to be done. 

Most of the immigrants here are from California. Payson is rapidly growing. Old people seek the perfect weather. Maybe old Republicans like to be in amongst the Hooples. 

Kadizzle's education primarily involved the social sciences, with a strong dose of psychology mixed in. Observing people is Kadizzle's bird watching.  Seeing the way people mate, nest, and raise the young is interesting. Migration is also a phenomenon among humans. Like the birds humans fly south. Warm is a strong motivator. Now there is one big benefit to cold. A favorite saying in North Dakota was " The cold keeps the riff raff out."  Indeed it was true. The bum culture just never took hold in North Dakota. Sleeping under a bridge was not an option at thirty below.  Payson our new home has a warming center for the bums.  You have to keep your bums warm on frosty nights, otherwise they will wilt. 

Bums like to keep moving. Bums are always carrying their bum sack somewhere. Down by the lake there was a family, or a troupe of bums slowly moving a shopping cart along the highway parallel to the lake. They just seemed like wandering gypsies. On the same road was a single bum walker with a big straw hat pulling a little grocery cart with two small wheels. 

Kadizzle often picks up people on foot and moves them along. Payson is polluted with " Christians", but all those Christians just drive by the bum walkers like they don't exist. That Bible story about helping people apparently did not sink in. Instead they turned the church into a Tea Party nest, and decided to call the poor rapist and drug dealers. 

Just a Reminder

Just got off the phone on a credit card transaction. At the end of the conversation they always ask " Can I do anything else to help you today".  Always answer "yes", then ask them to never vote for a Republican and help get Trump in jail. Remember they asked you if there is anything else they can do to help.  

Special Program for Frank, and Jeff B. on taxes.

One thing Republicans have mastered Frank is fooling the Hoopleheads. Below this post is a video on taxes Frank.  Republicans want the Hoopleheads to think the poor are the welfare cheats, when really it is the billionaires. Well Frank, Jeff B. and Tea Party fans watch the video. It show who pays taxes and how much. As Kadizzle has said so many times Frank, it is not the poor who are robbing you, it is the rich. Frank, why do  you support the people who are robbing you? Republicans use the Hoopleheads to elect people who will protect them from taxes Frank. This video explains it very clearly. Now, you could say " Oh the rich give us jobs, so it is OK for them to rob us blind".  This is also a fallacy Frank. We can address that some other time, but the whole trickle down nonsense has only made the rich richer. Remember your hero Frank? Yup, Ronald Reagan. He gave the Republicans the shovel to shovel tax breaks to the rich. 

Will Frank, and Jeff B. watch the video? Probably not. They are tuned to Fox or cleaning Trumps shoes.  

Who pays the lowest taxes in the US?

In and out of the dream state.

At last the morning has come, but the dreaming last night went on and on. Prior to getting out of bed Kadizzle went in and out of the dream scenario a dozen times. What is the mind doing when it dreams? If  you have clue or an answer please respond. 

Now there is a special kind of dream. That is a dream that foretells the future. Normally there is no way to prove these things happen, but Cheech recently told me she had a dream and told her husband. Very shortly the dream came true. This has also happened to Kadizzle. A dream Kadizzle relayed to his mother in law came true shortly after he told her of the dream. 

Being an extreme skeptic Kadizzle has to admit some strange things in life happen with no explanation. However, if you think about it look what has happened. No one would have predicted the existence of radio waves three hundred years ago.  Men walking on the moon would not even have been imagined. Obviously there are a lot of things we still do not know. 

You know what you know, and you don't know what you don't know. That is the mantra Kadizzle lives by. Yesterday Kadizzle watched a few videos that remined him how much he does not know. Math interest Kadizzle, but he is very poor at math. Seeing what some people can do with math makes Kadizzle realize how dumb he really is. The humbling is good for anyone. One amazing thing about math are the people who figured things out several thousand years ago that Kadizzle cannot grasp today. 

Over two thousand years ago one of the ancients figured the circumference of the Earth with math. Most people could not do it today. If nothing else that shows the difference between peoples intelligence. 

The Common Good

Moving to Payson, AZ there is one thing we have enjoyed immensely. Hop on the bike and coast down the hill. At the bottom is Green Valley Park. Kadizzle has see few little parks enjoyed as much. In those three little lakes, ponds, whatever they are the fishin is good because the state keeps them stocked. It is always a pleasure to see all the people fishing. Next to the fishermen are the dog walkers. Someone is always strolling around the lakes. Seeing the young people fishing is wonderful. For a young person to sit with a fishing rod contemplating is a splendiferous thing .

Payson has its shortcomings, but the town takes the parks seriously. On the other side of town the mother of all recreation facilities is being built with several ball fields and courts. 

But good could be even better. There is a patch of land called The American Gulch that adjoins the Green Valley Park. If it could only be added to the game. Now, another pat on the back for Payson.  All the town water is recycled to water the park and the golf courses. What an accomplishment. 

Parks are the best indication of a willingness to share. For that matter so are highways, schools, and all the infrastructure that makes life liveable. How does all this come about? Frank, it is taxes that pay for the roads the parks, the schools, and the things that make us human. Well there is nothing wrong with taxes. Of course nothing is more evil than taxes in the eyes of Frank, Jeff B. and the Republicans. The rich don't use the highways, they fly in private jets. The rich don't use the public pool, they have their own.  So if the rich don't use what the peasants do why should the rich have to pay for some poor kid to attend school? That is the Republican mind. I got mine the hell with you. Taxes could be considered forced sharing by the government. Is that really bad Frank? The rich would like to drive right down the middle of the highway, but the government says you only get to use half the road. It works better that way.  

How about hunters? Now the rich are purchasing North Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming to make their own hunting preserves. Is there anything wrong with the rich owning the beach, the wilderness, and everything nice Frank?What do the sheetrockers, the framers, and the waitresses do on vacation Frank? Are they supposed to sit on the crummy part of the beach, hunt on crowded public land, and live the life of a peasant. Frank, that is where you are headed. Frank you are creating a world of haves and have nots. If only Frank could see he is a pawn being used to make sure the rich pay no taxes. Frank the rich get to deduct their jet as a business expense. Bulletin Frank. Inflation is caused by the CEO taking too much, not the guy at Star Bucks wanting to make a living. 

Remember the lady at the last Tea Party meeting bad mouthing the "Radical left"?  What if the radical left wanted the billionaires to have less Frank?  Would that be OK?Is it radical to want everyone to have health care Frank? Is it radical to ask the rich to only have two homes Frank so the poor can have one? Is sharing or even forced sharing radical Frank? I got it, it is mine, I earned it. No you didn't.  You used roads paid for by everyone, you used the water system, the electrical grid, and you went to a hospital everyone supported. Frank if you think any rich person got there by themself you are as delusional as the lady was at the last Tea Party meeting. Once no one is willing to pay taxes the country will fall apart. Wait, the country is already falling apart. 

Back to Green Valley Park. Frank everyone enjoys the park. That is how sharing works. When you dream of the rich owning the world comes true Frank, enjoy it. Right now 400 families already own half of everything in the country. You are on your way to success Frank, only on half left to go. 

Yesterday Kadizzle drove the trail crew up to the top of the Four Peaks to do some work on the trails. The crew was going to work their way down to the bottom of the mountain where Kadizzle would pick them up. The drive down that mountain is a long treacherous drive.  On the way up we drove where two people were recently killed when they drove over the edge in the dark. They went straight down over the cliff. 

On the drive down Kadizzle thought he might listen to a stump preacher on the radio, which he did. It turned out to be a lady preacher. She explained that when you get to heaven you will be able to fly. Thing of the gas savings, and the convenience.  When her show was done another male stump preacher came on asking people to send him 

$1,000. No doubt he knows how many fools sent Trump the billionaire money.

When the stump preachers got old Kadizzle tuned to a channel that had the Fox News commentators on. They are amazing. No matter what Biden did they would spin it to be a bad thing. If Biden welcomed Jesus to the White House they Fox News rats would complain it was a trick and Jesus should have come when Trump was there.  The black basketball player was freed from Russia with a prisoner trade. Of course this was terrible. Imagine if Russia would have captured Rupert Murdock ?  Would it be OK to trade an arms dealer to get Rupert back? The spinners would have made it a bad thing if Biden rescued Rupert. 

Of course every Republican had to sing the Fox News tune about the swap. When Biden never wins, you might suspect the game is rigged Frank. That is how your gang is spinning the recent election. If the mentally ill don't win the Democrats cheated. See any patterns here Frank? A clue Frank. What distinguishes humans from computers is our ability to see patterns. See if you can detect any patterns here Frank. Trump cheated college students out of 25 million, Trumps buddy Bannon cheated donors out of millions,  money Trump raised for the wall was stolen, Trump ran a hotel in D.C. where guest overpaid when he was president. Trump failed to pay workers when he built his Trump Tower. On it goes Frank, do you see a pattern?