“The laws should be rigidly enforced which prohibit the immigration of a servile class to compete with American labor, with no intention of acquiring citizenship, and bringing with them and retaining habits and customs repugnant to our civilization” – Grover Cleveland
“The best thing in life is to go ahead with all your plans and your dreams, to embrace life and to live everyday with passion, to lose and still keep the faith and to win while being grateful. All of this because the world belongs to those who dare to go after what they want. And because life is really too short to be insignificant.” – Charles Chaplin
Brilliant pebbles laid out Is an efficient strategy As it removes the layers of doubt Residual in our window of history
There is a weave of known cost About all that might be lost Were we to live by tradition War is the ugly business of nations
Biological or nuclear; there is a diversity In the weapons array, we face as our adversity Considering our adversaries, there's no pretense We need to think two steps forward in our defense
Recognizing the reality of our insecurity Morally, it's better to defend externally It comes down to a matter of great clarity Taking care of our own isn't cheap talking charity
The principles are maybe a bit rhymeless As they are assuredly needed and timeless We must join hands in our fearful capacity So that mutually assured destruction isn't our legacy
An EMP attack on our electric grid Would result in mass destruction and rid Our ability for our society to survive We must learn to think about keeping our nation alive
We must consider a protective dome To prevent such an attack on our home It comes to the greater utility of defense Instead of thinking only in terms of equal offense
(c) April 15, 2025 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
Stepping up in opposition to the gravitational suck of those who attempt to redefine what freedom and liberty mean:
A fundamental difference between the allegedly progressive and true classical liberal idealists, now called conservatives, is in how freedom and liberty are defined. There is indeed an emancipatory element to the correct definition of these words. This meaning was fundamental to ending the reign of the autocratic aristocrats, from which the founders rebelled. This has carried forward in the civil rights movements, which have rightfully expanded the enjoyment of these rights to an increased base of people. However, those who initially called themselves “liberals” and now “progressives” have lost the substance by grasping at illusory shadows.
These shadows found in Marxian and Marcusian ideas are actually regressive in nature when it comes to stripping freedom, liberty, and rights from the people in favor of expanding government encroachment. It is private individuals and not collectivist interests that hold the ideals of property properly. The threat these collectivists impose on the property rights of individuals is every bit as once held by arrogant kings and greedy elites. Only the titles have changed. The sphere of government must be shrunk down in size to protect against this and not allowed to expand, encroaching on the rights of private citizens.
“Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.” —Aesop (c. 620–564 BC)
We must stand firmly in opposition to the continuing misinformation being disseminated as the history and the principles of the republic of the United States of America. There is a very evil propaganda program moving forward to discredit the founders of this nation and the very philosophies for which they were willing to bleed, and some die to found this great nation. This nation has seen plenty of controversy from its very beginning. But never before have so many fallen for the miscast aspersions of Marcusian-based Critical Race Theory and the like. As early as 1805, authoress Mercy Warren felt the need to step up against tyranny in the name of good and wise government (Warren 1805). This is even more so needed today.
“It is necessary for every American, with becoming energy to endeavor to stop the dissemination of principles evidently destructive of the cause for which they have bled. It must be the combined virtue of the rulers and of the people to do this, and to rescue and save their civil and religious rights from the outstretched arm of tyranny, which may appear under any mode or form of government” – Mercy Warren, Author, 1805
More than that, it is the duty and sacred obligation of every free man and woman who holds the name of American to not only uphold our republic’s founding principles but also pass this on to the coming generations. America has temporarily lost her way and teeters on the edge of the abyss. One of the primary reasons for this is that the modern understanding is no longer as initially meant. The right to liberty is to be free of the coercive influence of others. The modern meaning has come to replace the coercive parties, allegedly to make up for historical oppression.
Liberty has come not to mean equality of opportunity but access to services and goods regardless of ability to afford or to earn a level of transportation, housing, and medical care that exceeds general welfare. This is even at the cost of trampling the rights of others. Therefore, it is necessary to constrain the government’s powers and preserve the rights of all citizens. The Declaration sought to guarantee the right to pursue happiness and not happiness itself. Material wealth and happiness itself must be earned, not mandated.
“My construction of the constitution is very different from that you quote. It is that each department is truly independent of the others, and has an equal right to decide for itself what is the meaning of the constitution in the cases submitted to its action; and especially, where it is to act ultimately and without appeal.” =Thomas Jefferson (1819)
She whispered about her dreams In suitably stifled screams Twisted sheets and chandeliers Made everything larger than it appears
Thinking can hurt your chances In this world of broken romances You're expected to follow the rules Learned inside the forbidden schools
Here under the privileged roofs That propositions given without proofs Traditional values have a different meaning Where there is a redefinition of human beings
Habits bring about forced isolation Across the recast of the nation Where people become afraid to speak And the unarmed strong falsely fake they are weak
In corruption, it's a necessity to survive Spying on each other to stay alive Praised be what the proclaimed ones reveal Even if its the real truth that is concealed
Waling in oppression along the river Wishing for the freedom it might deliver The struggle becomes its own fragility Where hedonism as diminished virility
Blessed, it seems, are the meek Who have become afraid to speak Afforded now to be seen as extraordinary The fear felt is now the ordinary
Keeping their heads down low Eye to eye, the would no longer know What it is to know and live freedom There will be no individuality in their kingdom
Praise be for the evil that is done But surely the feigned purity is not for the Son For the Bible Tells us truth sets souls free And in this darkness, that will never be
Please God, let the lingering memory Be that which remembers love and family Taught lessons are found in twisted cruelty Found in the merciless beatings of brutality
(c) April 14, 2025 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
“Of the many influences that have shaped the United States into a distinctive nation and people, none may be said to be more fundamental and enduring than the Bible.” – Ronald Reagan
“Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.” – Arnold J. Toynbee
My Heart Grows Heavy (I'm Dipping In) by Michael Doyle
My heart grows heavy in the sadness As I look at this world of madness And know that love is the needed legacy As it should be walked as its meant to be
No Matter what the haters say This is the path that I pray With the words of the Father on my heart Imprinted as they have been from the start
Palm Sunday and I'm dipping in As deep as I can to fight against sin Our DNA is shown in our giving Pushed on with hop in our Father's forgiving
Sometimes you have to look back to go forward That is if you want to keep pushing toward The "Therefore" in Romans one through seven We trace the foot prints to find Heaven
All the way back to the garden of good Eden showed God's will to be understood Until that is man's feeble will was spoken And suddenly God's will was broken
From this, were the whispers of the hurting That put on mankind our harshest burdens Death and resurrection pointed the way In our lack of shame, we've learned to pray
Personal theology is often love without condition God's love is the reason behind our explanations The truth of the glory is there is no shame Look around you and know that there is not blame
Radical love is found in the Jesus way As we mind our words in all we do and say All of the world isn't a set of rules, but relationship Practicing love is the truest pattern of worship
The world surrounds us with many choices As we search for and find our Christian voices Putting aside the flesh, we put on the spirit Living Christ's holy way as best that we might hear it
Peace of the spirt is the pace that walks us through These days of life, our flesh wants us to do as we must do And instead of our false ways, put on God's holy ways Until at last, our gifts bring us to our better days
We walk now as God's children and as His family Heirs as we are to the the solid days of glory This the deepest meaning passing as our story Especially, when we do our utmost to live in fidelity
We prepare our hearts in this passing holy week Listening close as the paster humbly speaks It all comes down to faith and being nice In living our lives this translates as the best advice
It's there in the priestly message without hesitation Listening close we find our life's truest direction For His is the Kingdom and with it all of the glory This then is the crux of our Easter story...
(c) April 13, 2025 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