“Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories.” – Thomas Jefferson (1781)
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First Principles: Every Government Degenerates When Trusted To the Rulers of the People Alone. The People, Themselves, Therefore, Are Its Only Safe Depositories
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A Desecration
A Desecration
by Michael Doyle
Politics take a backseat to the Constitution
Yet some do not like this resolution
But that doesn't make it a wrong
It's the restoration of where law belongs
There is a value that matters to all of life
Where we save the whale, why is there strife?
All life is sacred, is it that hard to agree
All life must be protected, it is clear to see
Then we must bring our house together
Bring our one America to be one better
Decisions are made respecting human dignity
Are a matter of recognizing life's sanctity
Over 62 million deaths at this evil altar
Sacrificed nearly for causes that make me falter
Less than three percent killed for reasonable cause
The rest are killed for recreational choice and bad laws
How can any ethical person deny this right?
The right to life is declared as a guiding light
From the foundation of our great republican nation
To not recognize this is simply put a Desecration
(c) June 24, 2022 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: The Care of Human Life and Happiness, and Not Their Destruction, Is the First and Only Legitimate Object of Good Government
“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.” – Thomas Jefferson (1809)
Thought For the Day: Pray, Verb. To Ask the Laws of the Universe To Be Annulled On Behalf of A Single Petitioner Confessedly Unworthy
“Pray, verb. To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.” -Ambrose Bierce, writer (24 Jun 1842-1914)
Scaling the New Heights of the Dawn Wall
(Scaling the New Heights of the) Dawn Wall
by Michael Doyle
In the dawn of winter
We scaled the face of the wall
Learning to never pause in winter
We rose above Yosemite's fall
Capturing the dreams of our own story
Finding the way through until the glory
In our children we find our every reason
For every purpose and in every season
Step off the ground into the flow state
Where there's no time for the second rate
Every climb requires its own mutuality
And so it is with every bit of rationality
There is no coming down unless we fail
Depressurized be it snow or in frozen hail
Struggling to link patches in preparation
Even without knowing the exact destination
The chance that we have to take
Requires the choices that we can't fake
It's the hardships that build our fortitude
And that acts in life to bring right attitude
With every muscle burning
There are lessons to be learning
Ones to be looked back on with pride
This is the learning of taking life in stride
Bridging the gap of ambition to ability
Can take the very best of capability
But the deliverance through the journey
Reinvents life on the way to our destiny
Tectonic shifts that we must embrace
Are the transformations that must take place
The achievements there are yet to be had
Making a woman from a girl, and man into a dad
Baby steps that are needed to be taken
Step-by-step, these are never shaken
But we must live life to its fullest extent
Live life filled with notions of right intent
Sure there are moments of living doubt
Days filled with wonder of what it's about
The silence and the thoughts that fill our heads
These bring the successes lived until we are dead
(c) June 23, 2022 Michael Doyle
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Dedicated to my 13-year-old daughter. May she never stumble without me being there to catch her fall. She and her sister are my everything.
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First Principles: Wondrously Strange Then and Much To Be Regretted…Were We To Neglect the Means and To Depart From the Road Which Providence Has Pointed Us To So Plainly
“No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and much to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means and to depart from the road which Providence has pointed us to so plainly.” – George Washington (1788)
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Thought For the Day: The Right of Citizens To Bear Arms Is Just One More Guarantee Against Arbitrary Government, and One More Safeguard Against Tyranny
“Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be very carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, and one more safeguard against tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.” – Hubert H. Humphrey (1911-1978)
Least we forget, not so long ago, this is what every thinking Democrat believed….
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Thought For the Day: The Story of Mankind Shows That War Was Universal and Unceasing For Millions of Years Before Armaments Were Invented or Armies Organized
“This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war was universal and unceasing for millions of years before armaments were invented or armies organized. Indeed, the lucid intervals of peace and order only occurred in human history after armaments in the hands of strong governments have come into being, and civilization in every age has been nursed only in cradles guarded by superior weapons and superior discipline.” – Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
First Principles: A Free People (Claim) Their Rights As Derived From the Laws of Nature, and Not As the Gift of Their Chief Magistrate
“A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.” – Thomas Jefferson (1774)
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Thought For the Day: The Second Amendment Was Given To Us As Protection Against Tyranny By the Federal Government and the Congress of the United States
“Recent school shootings have lured ill-informed Americans into a war on our Second Amendment guarantees, led by the nation’s tyrants and their useful idiots. … The Second Amendment was given to us as protection against tyranny by the federal government and the Congress of the United States.” – Walter E. Williams (1936-2020)
