ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER

First Principles: All Men Having Power Ought To Be Distrusted

“All men having power ought to be distrusted…” – James Madison (1787)

Thought For the Day: I Don’t Know What Your Destiny Will Be, But One Thing I Do Know; The Only Ones Among You Who Will Be Really Happy Are Those Who Have Sought and Found How To Serve

“I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.” – Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, physician, musician, Nobel laureate (1875-1965)

First Principles: A Bill of Rights Is What the People Are Entitled To Against Every Government On Earth, General or Particular, and What No Just Government Should Refuse

“[A] bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse.” – Thomas Jefferson

Thought For the Day: Why Is it That One Can Look At A Lion Or A Planet…As Long As One Pleases, But Looking Into the Eyes of Another Person Is…A Perilous Affair?

“Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someone’s finger as long as one pleases, but looking into the eyes of another person is, if prolonged past a second, a perilous affair?” – Walker Percy, author (28 May 1916-1990)

Thought For the Day: Greater Love Has No One Than This: To Lay Down One’s Life For One’s Friends

“Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” – John 15:12-14

First Principles: These United Colonies Are, and of A Right Ought To Be, Free and Independent States, That They Are Absolved From Allegiance To the British Crown

“That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.” – Richard Henry Lee, Patriot and Father to Robert E. Lee (think on that before you go trying to cancel Robert E. Lee for serving what was originally conceived of as the independent country of Virginia as defined by his father who is the one who wrote the resolution of independency…)

In the Hateful Wastefulness of Mediocrity

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In the Hateful Wastefulness of Mediocrity
by Michael Doyle

Is it as it seems some kind of conspiracy
This hateful wastefulness of mediocrity
Clearly, I am not genius quite enough
For I, in my simplicity, to hazard a bluff

That human nature is an understanding
I hold in any regard too commanding
Like how Shakespeare is softly profound
In the ways of mankind chased around

Cold nights in Denmark hold their suspicion
As a ghost seen before knows its derision
Silent as it leaves with dawn's breaking
Sheer as the will of those who've known life's aching

Pale shades doomed from dance to merely wander
At the edges of kingdoms lost, torn asunder
Suffering torments until finally laid to rest
The past avenged as it were a child's test

Deep in the soul is born the pain of the guilty
That once called upon itself as if family
Figments conjured from on one's wicked imagination
Vengeance descends in the name of the nation

Laertes travails to Paris to embrace his art
That cannot be carried so far as an empty heart
There in the elevated parts within human speech
Are the truths of the soul, bared just within reach

What a piece of work is the reality of the man
Who protests a mocking innocence as if he can
It is all naught but the green-eyed beast of jealousy
That makes its short work of feigned fidelity

Phrases that call and fall out in our memory
Are a just part remaining of the Bard's legacy
What are the chances then of avoiding the blurring
As the bonds of faith keep passionate hearts stirring

By giving everyone our ear and keeping our voice
We make our passage through life as our own choice
Dressed two steps up from the man that I've yet to be
I present myself awkwardly and sorrow's humility

(c) May 26, 2021  Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved

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Thought For the Day: Central Bankers Always Try To Avoid Their Last Big Mistake. So Every Time There’s the Threat of A Contraction In the Economy, They’ll Over Stimulate the Economy

“Central bankers always try to avoid their last big mistake. So every time there’s the threat of a contraction in the economy, they’ll over stimulate the economy, by printing too much money. The result will be a rising roller coaster of inflation, with each high and low being higher than the preceding one.” – Milton Friedman (1912-2006)

First Principles: A Free Government Is A Complicated Piece of Machinery, the Nice and Exact Adjustment of Whose Springs, Wheels, and Weights, Is Not Yet Well Comprehended By the Artists of the Age, and Still Less By the People

“A free government is a complicated piece of machinery, the nice and exact adjustment of whose springs, wheels, and weights, is not yet well comprehended by the artists of the age, and still less by the people.” – John Adams

First Principles: Religion and Good Morals Are the Only Solid Foundation of Public Liberty and Happiness

“Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness.” – Samuel Adams (1778)