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About alohapromisesforever

Writer, poet, musician, surfer, father of two princesses.

Clown Suits Leapfrog To Stolen Policies

Clown Suits Leapfrog To Stolen Policesby Michael DoyleI’ve almost never been prone toward snipeEven regarding Comrade Kamala’s media hypeAdmittedly, it could be an amusing pursuitTo discuss a career begun playing a curious fluteNow she’s playing with a basket of populismOpenly … Continue reading

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First Principles: Industry Is Increased, Commodities Are Multiplied, Agriculture and Manufacturers Flourish: and Herein Consists the True Wealth and Prosperity of A State

“Industry is increased, commodities are multiplied, agriculture and manufacturers flourish: and herein consists the true wealth and prosperity of a state.” – Alexander Hamilton (1790)

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Thought For the Day: I Have Never Listened To Anyone Who Criticized My Taste In Space Travel, Sideshows or Gorillas. When This Occurs, I Pack Up My Dinosaurs and Leve the Room

“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.” – Ray Bradbury

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Autarkeia

Autarkeiaby Michael DoyleIn these days of enhanced pushes for creativityWe slip and slide in our moral relativityGetting dazed and pushed by sex and violenceWe confuse this with mistaken social turbulenceYesterday’s logic is puzzled by the push and pullOf opinions and … Continue reading

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First Principles: Arbitrary Power Is Most Easily Established On the Ruins of Liberty Abused To Licentiousness

“Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.” – George Washington (1753)

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Thought For the Day: You Know That Place Between Sleep and Awake, That Place Where You Still Remember Dreaming? That’s Where I’ll Always Love you

“You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you. That’s where I’ll be waiting.” – Peter Pan

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Blessed By His Glory

Blessed By His Gloryby Michael DoyleI’m thankful for the abilityGiven to all of humanityTo lift our voices in praiseWe raise this sound throughout our daysIt is to the risen kingThat we will always singFor He who heals us and savesAnd … Continue reading

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First Principles: The Problem To Be Solved Is, Not What Form of Government Is Perfect, But Which of the Forms Is Least Imperfect

“It has been said that all Government is an evil. It would be more proper to say that the necessity of any Government is a misfortune. This necessity however exists; and the problem to be solved is, not what form … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: You’re Only Given A Little Spark of Madness and If You Lose That, You’re Nothing

“You’re only given a little spark of madness and if you lose that, you’re nothing.” – Robin Williams, in A Night at the Roxy

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In the Heat of August

In the Heat of Augustby Michael DoyleRising temperatures affect the moodWith noisy insects seeming to intrudeSome live to complain line after lineBut I think instead, I’ll make August mineEven a poet or two finds it a povertyThat they cannot enjoy … Continue reading

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