Summertime EV

Charging my hybrid EV last summer was a rewarding episode in my life-long automobile love affair. The home charger would power up the electrical renewal overnight and we learned to take advantage of after peak rates that began at 8 or 9 PM .  We saved money by charging overnight and it was elegant to wake up in the morning to a fully refreshed battery.  And then we would hum around town without gasoline, fumes, or noise.

And then came winter.  As temperatures dropped to below freezing,  we began to notice that the fully refreshed battery was only storing about half of its promised capacity.  The distances we could travel under electric power were considerably reduced and our summertime reliability was frozen like Mill Pond ice cover. 

We heard stories of stranded EVs in the recent  Chicago cold snap and of drivers unable to renew their batteries in cold temperatures at all.  Powerless EVs were being towed by gasoline-powered wreckers away from cold charging stations.

We heard of a meeting of the BEP that was cancelled due to weather disabled power outages in Augusta, Maine.  And this meeting was the same group of unelected government officials who were tasked with the mandated adoption of EV production and sales for our near term future. These winter challenged EV advocates should have their meetings in the summer and choose to table EV mandates until their winter meetings are accessible by their unvetted futuristic power scheme.

Gun

There is Mechanical beauty and potential energy in guns.   I wish they’d call guns something else, like  the “legally protected health care activity” semantics that are so prevalent in the proposed LD227 bill.  It’s not a gun; It’s a mechanical repository of potential energy.Rarely,  in movie sets, does the mechanical repository of potential energy contain a projectile due to the risk of harm and/or death.  Often, in the media, mechanical repositories of potential energyare culpable for the harm they cause in much the same way as trucks are blamed for accidental coincidental damage. (The truck drove off the roadway and hit a pole)

A misfire from a mechanical repository of potential energy would not have occurred without prior selection, intention, engagement and trigger tension apart from the gun itself.  Any discharge from a mechanical repository of potential energy would require that same stimulus to go off.  The mechanical repository of potential energy has no self actuating feature. It hath no internally churning wrath. It hath no assault labeling conscience or consciousness.  Its inherent inanimate peacefulness is absolute. 

The machining in the mechanical repository of potential energy exquisitely close tolerance construction and has finishing that accentuates its appearance.  The tooling of its interior mechanisms rivals a grandfather clock or a wagon-jack  in connective balance and timing. The style and fashion and composition of handgrips are personal and comfortable.  The fit and feel are purposefully designed for safety first and then looks, and then collectibility.  A mechanical repository of potential energy is a perfect collectible commodity, like a collection of unopened Irish Whisky or ceramic cats or matchbox cars.  The lethality of these collections are indistinguishable and inert. 

When does the mechanical repository of potential energy become a red herring for grievous shaming of ownership?  Gun control and legal wrangling of the Second Amendment and infringement of the spirit of infringement is an unpopular refrain.  It’s not guns that fire up the violence of the populace. The outcry of the discordant gungrabber would have the mechanical repository of potential energy blamed and shamed and red harangued instead of arresting the real stimulus. Guns in a curio cabinet are no more lethal than ceramic cats. 

 Construction dynamite and canned gasoline are far more dangerous yet are quietly shelved in our midst. Get off gun control.  It is concealed carry of loaded propaganda. Plainspoke folk say it’s not the gun it’s the one holding it.  It’s not the arrow it’s the Indian. 

Infringement

There are efforts in play to neutralize the Constitution. Similar to the liberal scheme (NPV) to go around the Electoral College, gun phobia persists in many last minute camouflaged legislative tactics. Some states have joined an unconstitutional compact to pry away electors from their elected authority. Repetitive and comparable circumventions of the constitution override the 2nd amendment provision that simply tolerates no infringement.  The least common denominator is constitutional contempt.  

“No Compacts”

The lawyers organize a compact to override the established law of elections.

“Shall not be infringed”. 

 The lawyers introduce incrementally innocuous adjustments to the right to bear arms which  purposefully infringes.

 They cannot change the Constitution through the prescribed amendment protocol because there is no support for the changes. No 3/4 majority of the states can be garnered. The Amendments became the Bill of Rights by adoption and approval of the states.  The detour to alternative methods for changing the Constitution have evolved from not being able to acquire the majority needed. But alternative detours are prohibited by the Constitution.  

The intentional design and inclusion of the phrases  “no compacts” and “no infringement “ meant that the strength of the law was reinforced in its original form.  Reinforced in its original form.  The founders thought that writing the law wasn’t strong enough so they added rebar to prevent the concrete from breaking apart.

Despite the founder’s cautions, these layered slivers of deliberate delinquency threaten the Amendments by infringement. These threats are like Mohs surgeries on the skin of the law.  Peel away the Constitution one slice at a time . 

 The noise of media turbulence is regenerated when psycho-shootings happen and are then exploited to justify the “never waste  a good crisis” mantra that Rom Emmanuel prophesied on his way to mayorhood of Chicago.  It’s not  so much ignoring the Constitution as it is shredding it. We the people should honor the original intent of the law for the very same reasons they were written in the first place and resist the prohibited urge to fix what ain’t broken. 

Pretzelized

Reproductive Rights

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red colored font signals an intentional manipulation of meaning to misappropriate  innocent wording thus making an argument sound better.

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 I have the right to be reproductive. I have ownership of the responsibility to re-create. Why then does reproductiveactivism abort babies and not be reproductive at all?. Quite the contrary, this retrofitted usage of reproductivity yields nothing. It detaches Something from the umbilical cord and ends its life while silencing the real reproductive reason to be. Reproductive right advocates argue for a right that disguises the deadly outcome of its legally protected healthcare activity.  Reproductiveright promotes the opposite.  It’s not called Un-reproductive right yet it is quite un-reproductive. It’s what we do: reproduce.  The act of reproduction requires no lawyer.  It requires no legislator. It requires no doctor or nurse mid- wife. It requires no lobbyist, activist, protestor, committee,  Planned Parenthood or agency.  It requires only a loving process miracle. Termination or extermination of reproductive outcome (birth) is described as though the outcome is reproductively desirable.  It’s not desirable because the reproductiverights activists want to abort the very reproductive activity that makes it reproductive.  They cannot have their cake and eat it too.  Reproductive means making and nurturing baby humans; de-productive means ending the miracle underway. 

And abortion.  Abortion, the word, means to stop  the plan already in motion.  Think Planned Parenthood.  The mission is to have a baby with normal sexual conjunction and gestation.  Parenthood never happens because the mission/plan is aborted along with the baby.  The Plan is to thwart Parenthood and should be called Something else because it isn’t what it isn’t.  And that’s the point: the language upends and pretzelizes the reality and imitates the good words. “They” are very successful at bastardizing the  vocabulary.  Reproduction is not what they mean. They mean to stop reproduction. Planned Parenthood is not doing humanity any favors. 

To simplify the planned confusion and clarify if possible: raising a family is pro-life; terminating a pregnancy is no-life. 

The End

Tulips Are Too

Roses are red

Tulips are too

Violets are violet

Blue is just Blue

Loon Song

Croon yodelling clarinet

In conversational woodwind mode

Sing a wilderness opera medley

Of kindred woods-slang code

Runaway tremelo saxophone

Plead your whereabouts soundings

Lament in magical mystery chords

To warn the vast surroundings

Deep purple wailing guitar

Steel air from out of the night

Wild acapella riffs echo

As you Dance in taxi for flight

Fiddleheads

Foraging for fiddleheads is a rite of Spring for many Aroostook County hunter/gatherers. The tightly wound beginnings of a fern are nutritious delicacies now served with pomp and flair at the best restaurants in Portland. They do not need vinegar but many dress them up like pickles. They do not need butter but many aficionados insist on a pat to churn out their earthy earthiness. Olive oil, merlot, or some balsamic potion would not unwind their spiral personality.