“It is a just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good. This often applies to their very errors. But their good sense would despise the adulator who should pretend they always reason right about the means of promoting it.” – Alexander Hamilton (1788)
Heard even from the criminally rejected Comes the kindness otherwise neglected Neglected by those who have more than needed All of the many lessons too seldom heeded
Helping the poor brings about true prosperity The type of prosperity of an unknown majesty These are the riddles of child's play And they shuffle in cycles into our better days
In life, one man's monstrosity is another's glory Such are the stories that tell life as if a made-up story This is among the many lessons that we need to learn The truth is needed however hard it is to discern
We find the circles we wander into become family As chosen friends bring us comfort with a trace of comedy And we learn to laugh hard at ourselves and at life In doing this, we find our way to peace despite the strife
And from this, we separate our darkness that unfolds From all the little horrors that our private Hells hold We search hard for the miracles that God must deliver To us all from the fevered sights that have made us shiver
(c) November 16, 2023 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
“The cost of charging equipment and charging losses, averaged out over 10 years and 120,000 miles, is $1.38 per gallon equivalent on top of [the $1.21 per gallon cost claimed by EV advocates]. Adding the costs of the subsidies to the true cost of fueling an EV would equate to an EV owner paying $17.33 per gallon of gasoline.” – Texas Public Policy Institute
It seems that if we calculate the true costs of fuel for an EV, these are not really ready for prime time or even the market for the average person absent huge amounts of governmental intervention and subsidies. As it turns out, for the time being carbon based energy is again the superior option. Don’t believe this without researching the data found here:
If the truth is to be unpleasant Let it be spoken in a bold voice Keeping focused on the present Not a stumbled mumble as if not a choice
It is better that the disagreeable Be out there and quickly done Then, to leave it somehow conceivable That a victory might yet be won
Don't leave the truth nibbling my ear Bit by bit, in some cycle of deception That is meant to pacify my fears Do they think it will find a ready reception?
Truth, wisdom, and love seek out reasons While malice only seeks the cause Everything is a matter of seasons Such is the way of nature's dearest laws
I know only the quick use of each moment While avoiding quickly seizing on the bad Time well used in avoidance of life's torments Makes life far happier than being sad
With a steady gaze, I look for life's elegance Determined to make each step count as it must Keeping my jaw firm and a smile on my countenance Finding that it is only in God that I can truly trust
(c) November 15, 2023 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
“In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” – Thomas Jefferson (1798)
Two brothers are engaged in a fight Over their father's founding legacy Each side as if as lost within vanity As the day that divides the ends of night
Down through the centuries Each side believes itself the better Repeating cycles of false histories Without recognizing whether
There might be a better way Found through mercy and humanity Crazy is the doing of every day Expecting differing results (as if that's sanity)
One side tries to grope toward coexistence While the other clings to hateful persistence Claiming the fallen stakes of victimhood As if they're merely and simply misunderstood
Caught up in the endless cycles of brutality They claim all the land from the river to the sea Proclaiming only their perceived indignity Without allowing for the other side's humanity
Two brothers are engaged in a fight Over their father's founding legacy Each side as if as lost within vanity As the day that divides the ends of night
Down through the centuries Each side believing itself the better Repeating cycles of false histories Without recognizing whether
There might be a better way Found through mercy and humanity Crazy is the doing of every day Expecting differing results (as if that's sanity)
You don't find peace through fighting You don't find love through keeping hate Truth doesn't come through gaslighting We all get to work toward a better fate
Darkness has overtaken the Holy Lands In known disobedience to God's commands There is only mutually caused destruction When brothers abandon the paths of construction
Two brothers are locked in a losing fight Over their father's founding legacy Neither side looks up with enough integrity To see the day that can bring healing light
Down through the torrid centuries Each side has believed itself the better Repeating protocols and false histories Without getting any sort of better
There might yet be found a better way Found in the strength of mercy and humanity No longer held in the chains of yesterday In this difference, there can be found sanity
(c) November 14, 2023 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
Heading out of Australia to escape this Aussie winter. First stop Japan, then UK/Ireland and if work doesn't call me back, onto Chicago. I will make it up as I go along
