ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER

First Principles: We Cannot Allow Any Unelected Federal Agencies/Bureaucrats To Operate Outside the Constitution, Undermine Our Civil Liberties and Create Their Own Foreign Policies

Posted on March 6, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“We cannot allow any unelected federal agencies/bureaucrats to operate outside the Constitution, undermine our civil liberties, and create their own foreign policies.” – Harry Truman

“For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of the Government.” All federal agencies exist to serve the American people. We cannot allow any unelected federal agencies/bureaucrats to operate outside the Constitution, undermine our civil liberties, and create their own foreign policies.” – Harry Truman (December 22, 1963), The Washington Post, page A11. Op-Ed in opposition to the agency he established doing more than its intended purposes.

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Open Heaven

Posted on March 5, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Enchantment Nutcracker - The Great Gig In the Sky

Open Heaven
by Michael Doyle

Passed on from generation to generation
It's not just a statement about position
That despite the storms of a passing life
We are faithful through peace and strife

Everyone on earth can do our part
It's simply a matter of faith in our hearts
As we all remember cause we know
We all reap according to how we sow

Bound in our sacred and cheerful giving
We are blessed by the righteous we're living
Grace and generosity provide us more
This in the end is the finality of the score

Giving blessings through God, is a win, win, win
Our participation is where it truly begins
Blessing God by sharing the best of our treasure
By giving to others as needed without measure

We most allow Satan's illusions to deceive
It is more blessed to give than it is to receive
By getting to give it is the key to how we live
Having and living our faith in all that give

We must live as though we won't be idled
Unwilling to live self-centered nor entitled
Through faith we live our lives as we must
It is simply a matter of living fully in trust

Life is not merely a matter of cheap affluence
But stands outside that flowing to our influence
It is in truth the wise management of our outcomes
Lived out faithfully in the service of God's kingdom

A situational blessing shows in the living experience
To which we should all given with holy deference
All of that which is exponentially for our eternity
This then is our living out God's inherited legacy

Our open hands quietly clasped open heaven's gate
The Lord's prayer years to be lived beyond debate
It's given to us in promises of cherished confidence
And to be live out in its measure of our obedience

God uses the Church to shape the remains of this world
Leading through prayer and not battle flags unfurled
It is shown in all that live and in all that we do
We the privileged, the faithful, and the very few

(c) March 5, 2023   Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved

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Thought For the Day: When One Door Closes Another Door Opens

Posted on March 5, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.” -Alexander Graham Bell, inventor (3 Mar 1847-1922)

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First Principles: The Name of American, Which Belongs To You, In Your National Capacity, Must Always Exalt the Just Pride of Patriotism

Posted on March 5, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.” – George Washington (1796)

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First Principles: In A Society Under the Forms of Which the Stronger Faction Can Readily Unite and Oppress the Weaker, Anarchy May As Truly Be Said To Reign As In A State of Nature

Posted on March 4, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature.” – James Madison (1788)

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Thought For the Day: Jokes of the Proper Kind, Properly Told, Can Do More To Enlighten Questions of Politics, Philosophy, and Literature Than Any Number of Dull Arguments

Posted on March 4, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.” – Isaac Asimov, scientist and writer (1920-1992)

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Thought For the Day: When We Took Prayers Out of Schools, Guns Came Into Schools…Don’t Tell Me About No Separation of Church and State. State Is the Body. Church Is the Heart.

Posted on March 3, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“When we took prayers out of schools, guns came into schools. … Don’t tell me about no separation of church and state. State is the body. Church is the heart. You take the heart out of the body, the body dies.” – New York City Mayor Eric Adams

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First Principles: As We Are Running the Next Generation Into Debt, We Ought To Do the Work of It, Otherwise We Use Them Meanly

Posted on March 3, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity: And by a plain method of argument, as we are running the next generation into debt, we ought to do the work of it, otherwise we use them meanly and pitifully.” – Thomas Paine (1776)

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First Principles: The Most Sacred of Duties of A Government Is To Do Equal and Impartial Justice To All Citizens

Posted on March 2, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all citizens.” – Thomas Jefferson (1816)

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Thought For the Day: One Does Not Advance the Swimming Abilities of Ducks By Throwing the Eggs In the Water

Posted on March 2, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“One does not advance the swimming abilities of ducks by throwing the eggs in the water.” – Multatuli (pen name of Eduard Douwes Dekker), novelist (2 Mar 1820-1887)

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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER

First Principles: We Cannot Allow Any Unelected Federal Agencies/Bureaucrats To Operate Outside the Constitution, Undermine Our Civil Liberties and Create Their Own Foreign Policies

Open Heaven

Thought For the Day: When One Door Closes Another Door Opens

First Principles: The Name of American, Which Belongs To You, In Your National Capacity, Must Always Exalt the Just Pride of Patriotism

First Principles: In A Society Under the Forms of Which the Stronger Faction Can Readily Unite and Oppress the Weaker, Anarchy May As Truly Be Said To Reign As In A State of Nature

Thought For the Day: Jokes of the Proper Kind, Properly Told, Can Do More To Enlighten Questions of Politics, Philosophy, and Literature Than Any Number of Dull Arguments

Thought For the Day: When We Took Prayers Out of Schools, Guns Came Into Schools…Don’t Tell Me About No Separation of Church and State. State Is the Body. Church Is the Heart.

First Principles: As We Are Running the Next Generation Into Debt, We Ought To Do the Work of It, Otherwise We Use Them Meanly

First Principles: The Most Sacred of Duties of A Government Is To Do Equal and Impartial Justice To All Citizens

Thought For the Day: One Does Not Advance the Swimming Abilities of Ducks By Throwing the Eggs In the Water

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