Wedded to a narrative We forget the slavery of today Civil rights racketeers Do little to nothing To ease the world's tears
There are incentives to embrace Truths forgotten without trace Combatting the great reset takes voice To stand together, we are the majority We must speak up for commonsense And ignore the false pejority Telling the technocrats to leave us alone
The prophets of socialism speak of doom While the working class is living a boom Wokenesss doesn't work; it's a sham We must shear off the doomsayer's glam There is that gets better through false narrative
Free market policies or failed Marxism We must speak the truth with optimism Equality of opportunity can not race-based equity Is the surest course to economic liberty Ignoring the data gets us no better weather
Social policy does not exist inside a vacuum What doesn't work elsewhere will not work here And what does work, should be what is done That is how this battle will be won We will all rise with the morning's tide
(c) February 28, 2022 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
“The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys.” – Thomas Jefferson (1808)
We started church with a prayer for Ukraine I can only further pray it is not in vain The horrors that they are going through Can only be endured by the strength of how God is true
Turning next in our Sunday's humble worship We turned to a study of needed stewardship Be faithful in giving your very best By doing this, it is how we pass the test
Jesus as the first born and before everything Shows the example of holding back nothing In the image of the invisible God, He is first The living water by which we quench our thirst
To live the fullness of this legacy We must live in the splendor of God's majesty Ready to give an account of placed priority As we have been trusted in by the Divinity
As we look around, all that we do see Belongs to only one, the Lord in all His dignity It's the way of holiness to recognize God's preeminence And by doing so, trusting in the God of providence
God in all of his ever present glory Is the best ever lived presence of mystery Suffering for our faith, we stay the course Because we have known the sanctity of the source
It's a matter of also knowing our responsibility And living our duty to our greatest capacity Living to give our first and our very best Trusting in God that He'll do the rest
Whether from the highest peak or a jail cell We should rejoice in our escape from living Hell Rejoice and be glad in all that is done All in the name of the Father and the Son
We must put God's sacrifices before all eyes Revealing the message of God without surprise Each of us is obligated to do as we must do Keeping the glory of God before this world's view
Making disciples from all the reached nations Offering up the ways of our humbled salvation The word of God must be fully given and known In all the ways that we show and have been shown
(c) February 27, 2022 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
My hat is off to Volodymyr Zelensky As with his courage, he steps into history He has consistently proven his fitness As the heroic man becomes a remarkable witness
Once a comedian who commanded laughter He has proven himself a worthy character A humble everyman fights the tyranny of corruption Then suddenly a role becomes his life's disruption
Some had treated this with suspicious derision Frightened of the chance of emotional manipulation But now as he is subjected to the worse of stress tests Zelensky has proven himself above contest
With a single statement uttered in utmost grace As with courage, he has humbly taken his embrace With a prayer that he and his nation will persevere He quietly states that for now he is still here
But tomorrow, Russia may soon take away his life Yet, he will not submit cowardly before this strife Today, a diminutive man stands at least ten feet tall And will not stumble; nor does he plan his own fall
The fight is there and what he needs is ammunition Living for tomorrow is not his greatest ambition And while a tyrant threatens his death as imminent Zelensky's character is and will remain preeminent
With great humility and without any wrongful pride The Ukrainian president refuses an American ride Rising from a metropolis of blast furnaces, he is the fire Forged and burning bright willing one Ukraine as his desire
Blood and soil is not a cause now for any detachment But rather in validation of the growth of his attachment Zelensky chooses not to shake before the historic antecedent Willing to die if need be as shown in this week's precedent
With this step he erases the gap between the elite And the everyday Ukrainian people filling the street Bodies and bicycles thrown before oncoming Russian tanks Zelensky shows fortitude, staying with grace and in thanks
Willing to suffer the same terror and coming deprivation Sealing his fate and soul forever with the Ukrainian nation In his service to the people, Zelensky is a living inspiration In service to his people and the Ukraine nation
(c) February 26, 2022 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
A black orphan Grown to be an honest intellectual Child of the Jim Crow South He sought after what's effectual Emancipation is what makes America unique
The 1619 Project Is one of breathtaking ignorance Slavery does not And did not bring prosperity And the fight against this is one of joint legacy
Now is the time for real bravery Asserting truth above popularity Intellectual honesty points forward While fingers of blame are backward It shouldn't be the outlier that stands up
Reality versus rhetoric Is always the first step In reconciling our future together For worse or for the better Solutions must be married to truth ...inseparable
(c) February 26, 2022 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
“Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are all qualified, entitled, and morally obliged to evaluate the conduct of our rulers.” – English philosopher John Locke (1632-1704)
It seems that many of the Left have forgotten these first and most principled ideas fundamental to liberty, haven’t they? In countries like Russia, as with all countries, these principles still ring true. I am very proud as a human of my fellow humanity who are protesting in Russia against Putin’s war against Ukraine. Even more dignified are the Ukrainians for standing up against Russia’s “minor incursion”. We Americans should be protesting that our president uttered those words on television that virtually guaranteed that Putin would press forward. At this time, we are all Ukrainian! The pursuit of freedom and liberty is not confined to one people or one nation. When it is attacked, we are all attacked.
“It is impossible to live pleasurably without living prudently, honorably, and justly; or to live prudently, honorably, and justly, without living pleasurably.” -Epicurus, philosopher (c. 341-270 BCE
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
