Thought For the Day: As A Culture, We Have To Do A Better Job of Figuring Out Who Is Just Famous and Who Actually Knows What He or She Is Talking About

“You know, I have a couple of pretty simple rules in life. Don’t ever compare anything to slavery, don’t ever compare anything to the Holocaust, and if you’re a man, don’t compare anything to pregnancy. That’s rule number one. Rule number two: If you’re going to apologize, then just apologize. Don’t explain it. Don’t try to mitigate it. Apologize and ask for forgiveness. And number three: As a culture, we have got to do a better job of figuring out who is just famous and who actually knows what he or she is talking about, ’cause sometimes we confuse the two.” – Trey Gowdy

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First Principles: Liberty, the Greatest of All Earthly Blessings – Give Us That Precious Jewel, and You May Take Every Things Else!

“Will the abandonment of your most sacred rights tend to the security of your liberty? Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings — give us that precious jewel, and you may take every things else!” – Patrick Henry (1788)

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To See the World Again

Drune Diesel  - Flying Ship II
To See the World Again
by Michael Doyle

To see the world through new eyes
It might help me to again realize
The splendors too often taken for granted
By those of us whose views are slanted

Lights like stars seem to abound
As life loses its sense of mystery found
And the wonders turn into just a city
The luster fades; isn't that a pity?

Playing favorites as we quietly walk
Seeing the world through your eyes as we talk
Life's tranquility is finally understood
As I hold your hand, somehow touching the good

To see the world again so clearly
Finding the world's beauty and holding it dearly
It's not that you shape an unreal fantasy
It's that your eyes open up new possibility

Too many people forget their dreams
As life pushes pass its tattered seams
Have too many lost the courage to believe
As the tragic becomes all they can conceive

The strangeness of moonlight becomes harshness
In eyes accustomed to too much darkness
Is it perhaps the dark of our own souls
When our worst fears loom up outside of control

Stardust scatters across this world's ground
As if too soon yet to again be found
Brought back to earth by a faltered question
The questions embraced without hesitation

Promises to yet see this dream once again
If only through the eyes of child and friend
Skeleton hands play the keys of fallen time
Staring off as if in search of some lost rhyme

My heart rests floating across a rippled pond
Searching your remembered eyes for my once upon
When Life seemed magical like a lyrical fairy tale
And there was one more coin to toss into this wishing well

(c) February 3, 2022 Michael Doyle
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Wythburn Village - Fontaine Des Innocents Wishing Well Fountain

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First Principles: Those Who Expect To Reap the Blessings of Freedom, Must, Like Men, Undergo the Fatigues of Supporting It

“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.” – Thomas Paine (1777)

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Thought For the Day: As For Me and My Household, We Will Serve the Lord

“But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your forefathers served beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.” – Joshua 24:15 (New International Version)

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Back In ’81

Club Sways - Rocky TooCool
Back In '81
by Michael Doyle

Do you remember
Back in '81
It had all been done
Lighting our boots
With low grade gasoline
To ignite the spark
And let it burn

The show is the show
With jagged rhythms
And the leads that flow
We didn't know
Didn't know
Got to let it roll
Let it roll, let it roll

Jet black, Marshall stack
The plan of the attack
Not a note, did we lack
Not a regret to take back
The solid wall of sound
Came crashing down
Like a thunderclap wearing a jester's crown

Gotta slow the tempo
But hey, what did we know
We were punching it hard
Not to be the Strip's discard
Playing it full throttle
From bottle to bottle
Let's trust in one more good time

But I was a different man
Believing my own truth
Doing what it was, I think I can
Youth gone wild
A bit defiled
I was coming on strong
Playing for keeps even when I was wrong

Do you remember
Back in '81
The I said that I was done
Left the band, brother I was hurting
Thinking my soul was deserting
Leaving me one of the living dead
Guess that really was, something that I said

(c) February 2, 2022 Michael Doyle
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Supernatural Island - Saturday Night Dread Life

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First Principles: To Render Us Again One People Acting As One Nation Should Be the Object of Every Man Really A Patriot

“To render us again one people acting as one nation should be the object of every man really a patriot.” – Thomas Jefferson (1801)

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Thought For the Day: Too Often We Enjoy the Comfort of Opinion Without the Discomfort of Thought

“Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.” – John F. Kennedy

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Thought For the Day: Conscience Asks the Question, Is It Right?…There Comes A Time When One Must Take A Position That Is Neither Safe, Nor Politic, Nor Popular

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First Principles: To Prevent Crimes, Is the Noblest End and Aim of Criminal Jurisprudence. To Punish Them, Is One of the Means Necessary For the Accomplishment

” To prevent crimes, is the noblest end and aim of criminal jurisprudence. To punish them, is one of the means necessary for the accomplishment of this noble end and aim.” – James Wilson (1790)

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