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Thought For the Day: We Owe Those Kabul Airport Gold Star Families Everything. We Owe Them Transparency, We Owe Them Honesty, We Owe Them Accountability
“We owe those [Kabul Airport] Gold Star families everything. We owe them transparency, we owe them honesty, we owe them accountability if appropriate. We owe them the truth about what happened to their loved ones.” – Joint Chiefs of Staff … Continue reading
Forbidden Fruit
Forbidden Fruitby Michael DoyleLove of witchcraft presents the evidenceThat the ability to influence is no coincidenceAs they open up evil, door by doorAnd find a craven audience wanting moreThe portal to desires some wish to exploreOpen up to all, beginning … Continue reading
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Tagged Amuse, Audience, Beginning, Blame, Charade, Charm, Child's Play, Children, Coincidence, Contract, Craven, Danger, Delicious, Desire, Device, Door, Door By Door, End of Days, Engage, Enslave, Evidence, Evil, Explore, Forbidden Fruit, Freedom, Fright, Game, Grandmaster, Ground Floor, Hidden, Holy Advice, Ignore, Influence, Innocence, Intuit, Knock, Lie, Light, Lost, Masses, Messengers, Multiple Ways, Night, Perceive, Pleasurable, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Portal, Question, Run, Scatter, Secret, Shadow, Sudden, Task, Taste, Treasure, Witchcraft, Wonder
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Thought For the Day: Love Is Like Quicksilver In the Hand. Leave the Fingers Open and It Stays. Clutch It, and It Darts Away
“Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.” -Dorothy Parker, author (22 Aug 1893-1967)
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Tagged Away, Clutch, Dart, Dorothy Parker, Fingers, Hand, Love, Open, Quicksilver, Stay, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Speak Seldom, But To Important Subjects, Except Such As Particularly Relate To Your Constituents, and, In the Former Case, Make Yourself Perfectly Master of the Subject
“Speak seldom, but to important subjects, except such as particularly relate to your constituents, and, in the former case, make yourself perfectly master of the subject.” – George Washington (1787)
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Tagged Constituents, First Principles, George Washington, Important Subjects, Master, Seldom, Speak, Subject
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Into the Blackest Night
Into the Blackest Nightby Michael DoyleAfter a charlatan’s talk of romanceShuffled by in the cards of chanceFriends from the other side tell the taleHalf past the shaded gates of HellIt seems that games of chance are legendaryAs sleight of hands … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Night, Cards, Chance, Charlatan, Color, Dance, Deceive, Devil, Difference, Dotted Line, Fish In the Sea, Freedom, Funds, Games of Chance, Gates of Hell, Green, Hope, Legendary, Masked Ball, Odds, Other Side, Poetry and Poems, Poor Sinner's Hand, Recall, Romance, Shine, Side-Hustle, Sleight of Hand, Spotlight, Tale, Talk, Waltz, Whisper, Wink and A Nod, Wish
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First Principles: I Think the Best Way of Doing Good To the Poor, Is Not Making Them Easy In Poverty, But Leading or Driving them Out of It
“I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin F ranklin, Best Way, Contrary, Different Countries, Drive, Easy, First Principles, Good, Lead, Less, More, Observe, Poor, Poverty, Public Provisions, Richer, Trave, Youth
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Thought For the Day: A Few Cobras In Your Home Will Soon Clear It of Rats and Mice. Of Course, You Will Still Have The Cobras
“A few cobras in your home will soon clear it of rats and mice. Of course, you will still have the cobras.”-Will Cuppy, journalist (23 Aug 1884-1949
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Tagged Clear, Cobra, Few, Home, Mice, Rat, Thought For the Day, Will Cuppy
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Sometimes Anyway
Sometimes Anywayby Michael DoyleGood food like gumbo is hard to replaceIt opens people up and puts a smile in placeWhile a child makes a wish on the evening starA wished upon wish just might take her farBut even the best … Continue reading
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Tagged Anyway, Ball, Bottom, Child, Count, Crown, Dedication, Dreams, Evening Star, Eyes, Fairy Tale, Far, Faraway, Gambler, Gumbo, Hard Work, Inspiration, Love, Mardis Gras, Mississippi, Money, New Orleans, Pancakes, People, Poetry and Poems, Replace, River City, Smile, Sometimes, Surprise, True, Waltz, Wish
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First Principles: America – Freedom Is the Open Window Through Which Pours the Sunlight of the Human Spirit and Human Dignity
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity. – Herbert Hoover
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Tagged America, Dignity, First Principles, Herbert Hoover, Human Spirit, Open Window, Sunlight
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Thought For the Day: Those Who Suppress Freedom Always Do So In the Name of Law and Order
“Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.” – John V. Lindsay (1921-2000)
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Tagged Freedom, John V. Lindsay, Law and Order, Name, Suppress, Those, Thought For the Day
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 