As time moves forward, leaving the 19th century behind One still needs to understand a measure of the Russian mind The war crimes in Ukraine will never be the finest hour The Russian people have experienced as Putin growls and devours
In a frame of expanding backward toward his vision of empire And no doubt his cronies there are complicit as they conspire But neither Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky can remotely act to explain What it is that Platonov's Chevengur makes completely plain
As it makes clear the tragic insights into Soviet history A nation embracing violence with its fullest capacity And as it does so, it brings the destruction of the nation's soul Merciless anger translates into a tragedy of near-endless woe
Life has no value, and absurd ideas are worthy of dying for As a confounding brutality comes clawing, demanding more Injustices are stoked into a need for increasing authority This hatred first breeds open contempt and then loyalty
So-called leaders watch silently as the violence is unleashed Identity politics comes craving destruction like an unholy beast This is what becomes of a revolution that turns any nation Against itself and begetting unending violence as its explanation
Broken promises become broken dreams, and then total despair As visions of utopia become dystopia languishing into nightmares This sort of life is the death march that merges all into the same And in the end, it turns out that life itself is what's to blame
(c) January 10, 2023 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
“I never doubted, for instance, the existence of the Deity; that he made the world, and governed it by his Providence; that the most acceptable service of God was the doing good to man; that our souls are immortal; and that all crime will be punished, and virtue rewarded, either here or hereafter.” - Benjamin Franklin, in his Autobiography
“The most certain test by which we can judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.” –Lord Acton (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton), historian (10 Jan 1834-1902)
The urge for a new game was heeded After the loss of 1865, it was needed The KKK was founded by Democrats in misappropriation By Nathan Bedford Forrest and defies explanation
The party of White Supremacy sought White rule You won't learn this one in the CRT school The Democratic KKK reacted with brutality As black and white Republicans urged humanity
Like Antifa and the BLM, this was their army That set out to make this a Democratic country Keeping the South out of any Republican hands And was meant to keep the Democratic elite in command
Democratic Senator Tillman fought for Jim Crow How is it that today, this is something we don't know? Before Rosa Parks, Ida B. Wells fought for her seat But since she was Republican, this has been kept discrete
False charges from the lynching crew brought the injury While under Jim Crow, racists served as judge and jury Henry Smith was hung on the limb of the hanging tree Adding insult to injury, the Black Code disarmed black dignity
Those proclaiming to be a Democratic Party government Stripped the Black people of protection of the Second Amendment The arguments for gun control make the disarmed easy prey Remember this happened before and refuse to pawns in this play
Woodrow Wilson screened The Birth of the Nation As the first movie at the White House in an act of defamation This is explained by rampant racism as it revived the KKK Wilson's self-determination only pushed away racial integration
Instead, segregation was advocated as a needed social good Until the 1924 Democratic Klan Bake, as it is understood Burned crosses on behalf of the Democratic support of the KKK I beg to ask you, why is this not made more of as we live today?
It would not be unfair to openly and flatly speak up and say That it was only 100 years ago, the DNC allowed the Klan the day The New Deal continued as the Old Deal in near-open exclusion And that a better day for the American poor was only an illusion
Let's not conveniently forget the camps for the Japanese You cannot get more racist against patriots if you'd please As FDR shuffled away Americans as enemies to a woman and man Into segregation camps during World War II; racist again
With all the shaken fingers of feigned piety Truth seekers must ask the reasons behind the Great Society It was a gamble to have the Black Vote for 200 years But all the good proclaimed, it only brought more tears
The Black Vote is a bittersweet game out exploitation Shifting blame has allowed a Democratic hold on this nation The alleged Big Switch came not in the 60s, but the New Deal From promises made that were once again never proven real
Southern politics switched again in the 70s through 90s years As increased southern prosperity shifted the political gears The less racist, the more Republican the Southern schism It was economics that brought an end to Southern exceptionalism
It's been proven that less than 1% of the racists shifted Despite the fact how the country's demographics drifted The Big Switch has proven to be just another of the big lies It seems plain enough as to the truest reasons why...
(c) January 9, 2023 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
Raggae was first mentioned as a musical term in the 1968 tune by Toots and the Maytals called “Do the Reggay”. This song introduced the genre to the world. It is a popular music form originating in Jamaican popular music that evolved out of ska and rocksteady. It is integral to the Diaspora and combines political and social commentary surrounding contemporary events. This perhaps explains its continuing evolution. It is clearly influenced by mento, American jazz, and rhythm and blues and heavily emphasizes bass and drum downbeat and offbeat rhythm section.
There is also a strong link between the Afrocentric Rastafari religion that began in 1930s Jamaica. This linkage helped the music expand across the globe, giving the genre worldwide visibility. The idea is that soldiers and musicians are tools for global change, bringing about the One Love gospel of the Disapora’s social revolution. The lyrics are often sung in Jamaican Patois or “pidgin English.” Regardless, with love proclaimed as its religion, reggae spread worldwide. As it did, it came to incorporate local instruments, and like any good rock-based genre, a fusion of music styles came into play.
Expanding into nearby Latin America, Reggae en Espanol popularized across Panama into the South American countries of Venezuela and Guyana and expanded from there across the continent reaching Portuguese-speaking Brasil. From there, we in Second Life have an ambassador of this genre in the unique stylings of Loopman Blep. It is worth acknowledging that, of course, reggae has expanded its influence into Europe and the United States, too. Excellent examples of this music are found in Bob Marley and his family, Peter Tosh, Steel Pulse, and fusion groups such as Third World. The music is about overcoming hard times, struggle, and, most of all, the One Love needed to overcome it all. Let this resonate in you as you listen to Loopman’s music!
“O powerful goodness! Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates.” – Benjamin Franklin, in his Autobiography (Yet some still try to paint Franklin as a Deist who did not believe that God actively interfered in mankind’s daily activities)
“One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation, and compassion.” -Simone de Beauvoir, author and philosopher (9 Jan 1908-1986)
Eating smoked salmon and in contemplation About what will be the fate of my nation I will let no untruths be varnished or told But insist on telling how history did unfold
I have watched the destruction of American power Begun in the forced weakness begun in Obama's hours Deliberately jeopardizing our allies' flexibility As an open mic caught Obama promising elected capability
ACA did not bring universal care or affordability But instead, the highest premiums in our modern history While purposefully doubling debt and weakening the military I watched as Obama greenlighted rising Islamic militancy
We have forgotten that America is based on assimilation That it is the rule of law that created this nation This and other ideas need to be taught once again Those are the urgent priorities that I openly contend
The biggest gang in America is the Deep State It's game is theft, and Kleptocracy might be our fate It's not accidental, but open extortionate conspiracy The con is factual, actual, and not the fringe's theory
The truth laid bare is the Democratic Party instills fear While quietly stealing America, and it's quite clear Bureaucracy sneaks through the crevices in aspiration To sell a bill of goods to the people of our great nation
The pitch sold is the Democrat's love for the people It is the creed preached at their marbled steeple But what do we find by looking back in actual history It is that they are instead complicit in the people's misery
The pitch is social justice in an appearance of equality These are feints for pathways to illusory equal opportunity Only in the last few years has this been traded for equity It is the lie that a fair life ends the same for you and me
Somehow, Lincoln's portrait is displayed by the DNC That one takes great license as evidenced by history Lincoln fathered the Republicans to end slavery And who then started the Democrats, and what is their legacy?
Jefferson's Democratic-Republicans split into two The one faction Republican and the other Democratic in view Jackson rose to the White House in a breach of destiny Killing Native Americans as he stole their lands as his legacy
Selling it to the common man, as long as that meant White The Trail of Tears was resisted by Republicans as was right Frelinghuysen stood along side Crockett and the Supreme Court Yet, could not stop Indian Removal from the East and North
Tocqueville witnessed this broody and savage destruction Feeling as he did this was a catastrophic dysfunction From the Hermitage, Jackson supported slavery's cruelty Jackson and his Democrats have a distinct place in history
His Calhoun spoke of the nobility and good of slavery As they sought to extend its growth in American history While Douglas and Brooks; North and South; were vehement In the belief that slavery should remain as permanent
Slavery is theft as economical and sexual plunder That deprives much from those shackled there under While the enslaved suffered under Democrats South and North It took the Civil War to restore this people's worth
Only the Democrats had owned slaves profiting from this trial The price paid in blood and tears made the nation spiral Until trading lives to restore freedom to our darker brothers Exchanging the lashes of the whip for sword to free these others
This then was the price paid to move toward equality Not the equity of theft, but a legacy of open opportunity For men and women judged on their merits as understood And a nation stumbled its way that was freer and good
The modern Democrats try to excuse away this blight Turning the focus on the 1960s and the fable of civil rights While with sleight of hand draw a curtain of deliberate illusion Sowing over the Civil Rights Movement of the 1860s in confusion
The 1960s fight for all it's exploitive bells and lights Was merely a spotlight of dance shadowing the very real fight As the 1860s secured through war and put into the Bill of Rights The 13th through 15th Amendments remain in very clear sight
Moreover, far more Republicans than Democrats voted For the 1960s Civil Rights Act as should be loudly noted As modern Democrats steal credit for a Republican Act While stolen credit is treated as not evidenced in fact
The promised 40 Acres and a Mule has never been delivered Even as the Democrats filibustered, America's soul shivered Don't believe the untrue promises of equal opportunity As set out as a Democratic standard; nor the lies of equity
It Should be remembered in the vote for the 13th Amendment 77% of Democrats still wanted slavery to remain permanent Every Democrat voted against the 14th Amendment's equal rights Stick that in your guide for social justice highlights
Every Democrat voted against the 15th Amendment's equality In a vain attempt to block the right to vote inadequately So much for the Democratic false flag of equivalency All black people should remember this on Election Day's knee
Women also have been confused on who gave the right to vote It was passed by the Republicans as all suffragettes would note It's the Republicans for equal rights, and against slavery The Democrats are historically the party with the tainted legacy
My opposing listeners will have to simply pardon me For dredging up the truth, however inconveniently This election year sees our American at a cross road And I'll stand up in the front with real history being told
The ways of life chosen in our not so distant past Tell of America's legacy, and need known before votes are cast Let us choose freedom, liberty, and rule of law To ensure this; let's make sure that real history is recalled
(c) January 8, 2023 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
Second Life: The Vibes of Reggae, Loopman, and One Love
Raggae was first mentioned as a musical term in the 1968 tune by Toots and the Maytals called “Do the Reggay”. This song introduced the genre to the world. It is a popular music form originating in Jamaican popular music that evolved out of ska and rocksteady. It is integral to the Diaspora and combines political and social commentary surrounding contemporary events. This perhaps explains its continuing evolution. It is clearly influenced by mento, American jazz, and rhythm and blues and heavily emphasizes bass and drum downbeat and offbeat rhythm section.
There is also a strong link between the Afrocentric Rastafari religion that began in 1930s Jamaica. This linkage helped the music expand across the globe, giving the genre worldwide visibility. The idea is that soldiers and musicians are tools for global change, bringing about the One Love gospel of the Disapora’s social revolution. The lyrics are often sung in Jamaican Patois or “pidgin English.” Regardless, with love proclaimed as its religion, reggae spread worldwide. As it did, it came to incorporate local instruments, and like any good rock-based genre, a fusion of music styles came into play.
Expanding into nearby Latin America, Reggae en Espanol popularized across Panama into the South American countries of Venezuela and Guyana and expanded from there across the continent reaching Portuguese-speaking Brasil. From there, we in Second Life have an ambassador of this genre in the unique stylings of Loopman Blep. It is worth acknowledging that, of course, reggae has expanded its influence into Europe and the United States, too. Excellent examples of this music are found in Bob Marley and his family, Peter Tosh, Steel Pulse, and fusion groups such as Third World. The music is about overcoming hard times, struggle, and, most of all, the One Love needed to overcome it all. Let this resonate in you as you listen to Loopman’s music!