Monthly Archives: April 2024

First Principles: Be Courteous To All, But Intimate With Few, and Let Those Few Be Well Tried Before You Give Them Your Confidence

Posted on April 20, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence — true friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before … Continue reading →

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Messages Needed

Posted on April 20, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Messages Neededby Michael DoyleThere is something unsaid gone unheededIn all the messages truly neededMessages to and from so many strangersWho are embroiled in all their angerWhat happened to peace, love, and understandingI know I’m no longer hip, and not to … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: You Must Protest. It Is Your Diamond Duty. Ah But In Such An Ugly Time, the True Protest Is Beauty

Posted on April 20, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“You must protest / It is your diamond duty / Ah but in such an ugly time / The true protest is beauty.”-Phil Ochs, folksinger (19 Dec 1940-1976)

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Standing At the Brink

Posted on April 19, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Standing At the Brinkby Michael DoyleThis age of prevailing ill-liberalismBreeds little but despair and pessimismThere’s a breakdown in our societyThat has brought us into a time of anxietyOnce beautiful cities have turned into blightIt seems we are falling into our … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Far From Being Rivals Or Enemies Religion and Law Are Twin Sisters, Friends, and of Mutual Assistance

Posted on April 19, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Human law must rest its authority ultimately upon the authority of that law which is divine. Far from being rivals or enemies religion and law are twin sisters, friends, and mutual assistance. Indeed, these two sciences run into each other.‘ … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: The Hardest Single Part of Building A Software System Is Deciding Precisely What To Build

Posted on April 19, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build the most important function that software builders do for their clients is the iterative extraction and refinement of the product requirements. For the truth is, … Continue reading →

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These Electric Feelings

Posted on April 18, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

These Electric Feelingsby Michael DoyleIt is once, maybe twiceYour head starts reelingIt’s easy to pay the priceGetting lost in these electric feelingsYou know you’ve found the right oneAnd that the search is finally doneIt’s not like you’ll evade the snaresBut … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Without Liberty, Law Loses Its Nature and Its Name, and Becomes Oppression. Without Law, Liberty Also Loses Its Nature and Its Name, and Becomes Licentiousness

Posted on April 18, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.” – James Wilson (1790)

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Worth the Turning of Attention

Posted on April 18, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Worth the Turning of Attentionby Michael DoyleThe time has come and the time is nowTo remember the nation’s virtues somehowBecause when the Left has gotten out of controlThere is virtually nothing to ever consoleThe loss of some fundamental beliefsThat without … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: You Can Only Protect Your Liberties In This World By Protecting the Other Man’s Freedom

Posted on April 18, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.” – Clarence Darrow

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Monthly Archives: April 2024

First Principles: Be Courteous To All, But Intimate With Few, and Let Those Few Be Well Tried Before You Give Them Your Confidence

Messages Needed

Thought For the Day: You Must Protest. It Is Your Diamond Duty. Ah But In Such An Ugly Time, the True Protest Is Beauty

Standing At the Brink

First Principles: Far From Being Rivals Or Enemies Religion and Law Are Twin Sisters, Friends, and of Mutual Assistance

Thought For the Day: The Hardest Single Part of Building A Software System Is Deciding Precisely What To Build

These Electric Feelings

First Principles: Without Liberty, Law Loses Its Nature and Its Name, and Becomes Oppression. Without Law, Liberty Also Loses Its Nature and Its Name, and Becomes Licentiousness

Thought For the Day: You Can Only Protect Your Liberties In This World By Protecting the Other Man’s Freedom

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