First Principles: We Know That Equality of Individual Ability Has Never Existed and Never Will, But We Do Insist That Equality of Opportunity Still Must Be Sought

“We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Kamala Harris has made a great deal out about “equity”. That is to say, that regardless of individual abilities, there should in every effort made by individuals, regardless of ability, be an equal outcome for all. This is to rob those with superior talents of incentive to do better and accomplish more while simultaneously reward sloth. Naturally, this is harmful of society and can only lead to a decline in any society that practices any such absurdity. Kamala Harris is simply wrong in pursuing this course of illogic and pathological destruction of our nation. Democrats, like FDR, were once highly aware that equality of opportunity, not outcome, as essential to our nation’s well-being.

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Thought For the Day: Watch With Glittering Eyes the Whole World Around You Because the Greatest Secrets Are Always Hidden In the Most Unlikely Places

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” – Roald Dahl

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Clown Suits Leapfrog To Stolen Policies

Clown Suits Leapfrog To Stolen Polices
by Michael Doyle

I've almost never been prone toward snipe
Even regarding Comrade Kamala's media hype
Admittedly, it could be an amusing pursuit
To discuss a career begun playing a curious flute

Now she's playing with a basket of populism
Openly stealing from her opponent with optimism
She hopes no one focuses on her economic perspective
Straight from the pit of the communist collective

Working both sides of the room to maximum thrust
She hopes her sideshow allows the masses to trust
In things tried that have never worked in the past
And that their economic memories fail for the last

Four years that Joe says she has been integral to
The last four years of dismal times for me and you
The media clowns miss the leapfrog to her skin suit
As she plays out Trumpian policy like trivial pursuit

With the practice of orators, they speak with deference
To her career of flawlessly, incriminating experience
Leaning the skeptical mind to unwrap hints the mystery
That becomes daily a pattern of re-written history

The DNC was a scene of the wealthy degrading the wealthy
Pretending their humanity through hypocrisy is healthy
Proud only of America when it serves their purposes
And discounting the monetary gains of offering their services

The Kamala buzz snoozed around the convention's floor
As self-celebrations became far to hard to ignore
They attempted to flip the script as to who did what
What did they take so that the six years were forgot?

(c) August 23, 2024 Michael Doyle
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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

Autarkeia
by Michael Doyle

In these days of enhanced pushes for creativity
We slip and slide in our moral relativity
Getting dazed and pushed by sex and violence
We confuse this with mistaken social turbulence

Yesterday's logic is puzzled by the push and pull
Of opinions and inundated with straight-up bull
That passes as fact until other opinions check
And through force of power make society a wreck

Let's cancel the noise in favor of self-sufficiency
It's time for the true happiness of our independency
Let's develop a code of thinking and revel in it
This is necessary for meaning and true fulfillment

Close your mind to the myriad of disturbing voices
And base our lives on the free will of our own choices
The self is not the problem behind depression and abuse
Of substances of which we must be independent of use

The conventions of his time met Ralph Waldo Emerson
And his essay, "Self Reliance", met this head-on
We need to make our own way in a world of landmines
That always insists that we somehow fall in line

Let's cancel the noise in favor of self-sufficiency
It's time for the true happiness of our independency
Let's develop a code of thinking and revel in it
This is necessary for meaning and true fulfillment

Eight principles realize the key to personal autonomy
Wisdom and confidence yield the path of self-sufficiency
The best life is not one overshared, glittery, and unsteady
The private life should, indeed, be one lived in privacy

Despite the world's displeasure, conformity should be measured
One's true thoughts, not the cliques, should be treasured
In the midst of crowds, never fear to dare to walk alone
Fitting in can, at times, be the worst sin to ever atone

Let's cancel the noise in favor of self-sufficiency
It's time for the true happiness of our independency
Let's develop a code of thinking and revel in it
This is necessary for meaning and true fulfillment

The happiest path to walk listens to the Spartan fife
Having sufficient grit leads to our successes in life
The self-discipline of admiring virtue and ignoring vice
Admiration and emulation of nobility is the best advice

A foolish consistency comes from an unchangeable mind
It's better to leave that which doesn't work far behind
While living these ways we are best served living truth
Every step taken in a self-sufficient life provides the proof

Let's cancel the noise in favor of self-sufficiency
It's time for the true happiness of our independency
Let's develop a code of thinking and revel in it
This is necessary for meaning and true fulfillment

City dolls collect paychecks from fixed institutions
Despite the fact this often destroys their constitutions
It is better to live one's life by every known indication
Living the paths drawn from our own living specifications

This is a messy world in which most people just go along
Following one's own best thoughts is how to best belong
Nothing else can bring true peace but to follow our hearts
Life might be hard but it's best to follow this from the start

(c) August 22, 2024 Michael Doyle
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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 Glory
by Michael Doyle

I'm thankful for the ability
Given to all of humanity
To lift our voices in praise
We raise this sound throughout our days

It is to the risen king
That we will always sing
For He who heals us and saves
And has kept us from our graves

Every day my faith grows
In the lion that rose
I hear all believers saying
As we are on our knees, we are praying

Our trust is based on nothing less
Than knowing our savior's righteousness
From distant times, our faith is kept in place
Through His amazing grace

We remain blessed by His glory
As we stand as part of His story
Thankful to keep Him on our lives thrones
We are the people called out as His own

(c) August 21, 2024 Michael Doyle
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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 of Government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect.” – James Madison (1833)

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