The Wizard of iPhone Speaks

Music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church, used with permission. 
Join me next week when I explain the science of bubbles in America's favorite celebratory beverage.
FYI/ energy prices are not rising, but consumption is! Manage your usage by reducing those items that create heat. Your stovetop (electric), oven, water heater (set the temperature to 110 degrees), replace incandescent bulbs, use a power strip to turn off always-on devices. But not your internet connection. Keep your freezer full, and finally run maximum loads in the dishwasher and dryer.

Closing Banjo Music courtesy of Banjo HangOut -- Hello Dolly, used with permission.

"I would remind you that extremism in the defence of liberty is no virtue, and let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!"
Accepting the presidential nomination, 16 July 1964; 
Barry Goldwater 1964 (nominating speech).
Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations P/137

Opening piano music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church -- Closing Banjo music courtesy of BanjoHangOut (used with permission): "Under the Double Eagle"

Remember this from AccuWeather: “California is already taking steps now to protect communities from a potentially historic El Niño because we know how serious these weather extremes driven by climate change can be,” California Natural Resources Secretary Wade Crowfoot said in the statement.
Published by AccuWeather Sept 22 (20-26)

The so-called “Spring Tide” is a global event, caused by the movement of our nearest heavenly neighbor — our Moon.  It’s quite independent of El Niño and other ocean currents. I know because I was raised in Connecticut, and we had occasional Spring Tides from Long Island Sound.

Join me on Monday: Wizard of iPhone Speaks -- will review Driftlog, a "finder" app from Canada.

Opening piano music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church; closing banjo music courtesy of Banjo HangOut, Cabaret -- used with permission. 
Memo to AccuWeather 
Since El Niño is a weather pattern that occurs off the Pacific coast of California. 
Any threat to Hawaii is unlikely because our weather patterns are normally flow from west to east. 
FYI/Hawaii is 2000 miles southwest of California. It’s not part of the contiguous 48 states. 
I wanted to include a screenshot with the post, but it’s no longer available. 

Opening piano music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church; closing banjo music courtesy of Banjo HangOut -- Alabama Jubilee.

A federal license is required to produce distilled spirits in America. For each bottle produced (and sold), distillers pay a tax (although a revenue stamp is no longer required). The levy is on bottles produced for sale, not barrels.

It was our republic’s first taxation issue. The government needed money to fund itself; the Third Continental Congress taxed distilled spirits.

George Washington threatened to lead an Army into Pennsylvania to put down the “Whiskey Rebellion” of (17-99). He did it to keep the United States United.

If it has slipped your mind, the revolution began with taxation without representation. It was the Third Continental Congress that decided to tax distilled spirits.

Next time on Wizard of iPhone Speaks ICE's war on Rideshare 

Opening piano music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church. Closing: The Army Medley, courtesy of Robert W. McEkewen & The American Military Band. 
My review of Grammar Girl 101 Misused Words (for show notes)
I’m not clear where I first became a follower of Grammar Girl (Migon Forgarty in real life). My best recollection was via Twitter.
Over the past six years, we have been connected on LinkedIn. We are both podcasting, except that she produces an MP/4 (video) and my world is MP/3 (audio), but that aside, we are, in a manner of speaking, colleagues.
I say it’s a fun book because she’s blind sided by our French cousins on page 4: “Adieu vs Ado” — yes, Virginia, modern English is loaded with French words. 
It’s especially ironic because some years ago the French had a hissy fit over all the “Englishisms” in their language, i.e., Le drug store, 
Then it’s “byte versus bite”, which is not a Misused Word at all. “Byte” is a technical term and has nothing at all to do with digestion.
On pages 68 & 69, she debates the misuse of our prefix “IN” meaning N O T. You guessed it: flammable vs valuable.
I picked up a copy of her latest book — it’s a fun little piece and, in my opinion, if you intend to be a serious writer, especially of nonfiction, you need this book on your bookshelf, right next to your dictionary of choice.

Opening & closing piano music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church
Let’s end this dual citizenship nonsense — It doesn’t exist
“In Greece, his dual citizenship
complicates efforts by authorities to extradite him.” WSJ weekend edition page A/5
That’s why he fled to Greece. Here’s the reason why,  FYI, as a naturalized American, he made the following oath before a Federal judge. 

Opening piano music, courtesy of Stevens Valley Church, Finlandia -- Closing music recorded live by iPhone (20-14), courtesy of Steinway Piano Galleries. Gershwin plays Gershwin, played by Sprio -- the automated piano & The Entertainer. Scott Joplin.

Charting Pacific Ocean Temperature & labeling it El Niño “intensification” is not scientific
Weather is a technical subject; creating weather content using Siri is navigating a slippery slope.  Blaming Pacific cyclones (that's what Western Pacific hurricanes are called) is not just silly; it's illogical. 

Closing Banjo Music courtesy of Banjo HangOut, Wreck of the old 97 & Happy Days are here again Medley, used with permission. 
Memo to Humana — why would I want to use your pharmacy when you are “dropping” my doctor from your plan? My medical care is not about your profit; it’s about my well-being!
This is the final program in my five-part series about America's favorite morning beverage.

Closing Banjo music courtesy of Banjo HangOut -- Blue Skies used with permission.
Join me next week for Trash Your Kureg -- Mother Earth will thank you.
Here’s another little bit of weather nonsense —
“California is already taking steps now to protect communities from a potentially historic El Niño because we know how serious these weather extremes driven by climate change can be,” California Natural Resources Secretary Wade Crowfoot said in the statement. 

Published by AccuWeather Sept 22 (20-26)

This online post was accompanied by a chart of Pacific Ocean temperatures. Since El Niño is always a warm onshore flow, it can’t intensify because it’s always warm. The uniqueness of El Niño is being an "onshore" flow(close to the coast) when the norm is an offshore flow