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Thought For the Day: A Bore Is A Person Who Deprives You of Solitude Without Providing You With Company
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Your Best You
If it’s going to be in your life, it’s up to you. That’s maybe trite, but, could not be truer.
Your Best You by Michael Romani To be the best you Control your impulses Learn to do as must do Show your emotions who the boss is Put the needs of the many Before yourself and ambition Finding the honor within thee As you follow the path of your mission Laughing where it matters; inside Serving the people with great pride Willingly giving you very all Answering as always to duty's call Deeper than the blue skies Are the dreams hidden behind eyes That feel as though they've seen everything When you've brought all you can bring Then you remember your best is up to you An that it's you who defines what you can do Finding your strength you didn't know you had And in this you find the victory you need so bad (c) May 15, 2019 Michael Romani All Rights Reserved
First Principles: Cultivate Peace and Harmony With All Nations By Observing Good Faith and Justice
“Observe good faith and justice towards all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.” – George Washington
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Thought For the Day: Hatred Hurts the Hater More Than Those Hated
“I feel fairly certain that my hatred harms me more than the people whom I hate.” – Max Frisch, architect, playwright, and novelist (15 May 1911-1991)
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Some Would Be Heroes
Some are scared of their own shadows. Others would be heroes. Which are you?
Some Would Be Heroes
by Michael Romani
Some think darkness
Is the absence of light
Seen in the starkness
It is not the absence of light
But the absence of hope
That is the truest darkness
For without our hope
All that is left is the starkness
But with hope all can be new
And in hope we see what is true
The truth is all around us
And light is what surrounds us
While we might think we are lost
There are always those who pay the cost
To bring us round into tomorrow
Replacing happiness for yesterday's sorrow
There are the heroes that we need
And in them lays the seeds
To bring us back to our brightness
In all of our sacred rightness
And in these...
We must believe
(c) May 14, 2019 Michael Romani
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First Principles: Civilization Teaches Us To Respect The Right For Women To Enjoy Their Natural Equality To Men
“It is civilization alone which replaces women in the enjoyment of their natural equality. That first teaches us to subdue the selfish passions, and to respect those rights in others which we value in ourselves.” – Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (1787)
Thought For the Day: The Equality Act Threatens To Erase Protections That Benefit Women and Society By Removing the Protected Category of Sex
“Clearly this is a historic and momentous occasion when women on the left and right have put aside differences to come together on behalf of all women. … The Equality Act threatens to erase protections for women — protections that benefit women and society as a whole. Legislative and policy ‘reforms’ proposed in this dangerous bill will lead to blatant violations of our safety, privacy, and dignity. … If the Equality Act succeeds in making ‘gender identity’ a protected class under federal law, it will erase the protected category of ‘sex,’ which for decades has been the foundation for securing the rights and opportunities of women and girls in the United States. Under a policy of unrestricted self-identification of ‘sex,’ such as the act proposes, a man can simply say he is a woman, and everyone must act as if this is true. … Pay attention to the powerful message conveyed by our united purpose in opposing this bill. Simply put: If Americans, activist organizations, and our representatives in government genuinely want to prevent discrimination against women and girls, they cannot erase the legal recognition of sex as biologically male and female. As women, CWA and WoLF stand united to protect ourselves and all women and girls from the injustice of the so-called Equality Act.” – WoLF board chair Natasha Chart and CWA CEO Penny Nance
It doesn’t take much in the way of discernment to see that if someone might claim to be transgendered and is allowed to compete on an unlevel playing field, all the rights that women have struggled so hard to obtain are eradicated by this.
Persistent Presence
To really get to know the Lord, you have spend time consistently in His presence.
Persistent Presence by Michael Romani Prayers we state as need Aren't always those we heed When we listen to God's way Keeping it in our every day Persistent in the presence of Lord With words of God serving as our sword Each syllable that has been breathed Is needed as truth for the deceived All meant to find faith on the Earth Pleasing to God and against the dearth Of all the many ways we get wrong As we seek out places to belong Diligently seeking the Lord's presence Those who ask do not know deference But instead take action to find and know Continuing to ask until we can grow To ask the right things that we need Guided by the very Word that we heed God will bring justice to us day and night Walking the path of truth into the light The power of prayer is found in it's persistence Pressing past all of our life's resistance Keeping in the refining and all the defining That brings us to the answers so often consigning That we must put things always into perspective Contently taken in our freshly needed reflective Thoughts in keeping God's path in all of our ways As the best of ways to live out our best days (c) May 13, 2019 Michael Romani All Rights Reserved
First Principles: Human Life From First Stirring In the Womb to Its Close Is Protected By the Common Law
“With consistency, beautiful and undeviating, human life from its commencement to its close, is protected by the common law. In the contemplation of law, life begins when the infant is first able to stir in the womb. By the law, life is protected not only from immediate destruction, but from every degree of actual violence, and in some cases, from every degree of danger.” – James Wilson, “Lectures on Law,” Ch. 12, p. 597 in The Works of James Wilson. ed. Robert G. McCloskey (1967
James Wilson was considered the preeminent legal and constitutional scholar of his day. This is so much so that many modern and contemporary scholars of his days as well have long stated that his legal positions were so well advised that he spoke on the legalities of issues for our republic as if he spoke for the vast majority if not all of the Founding Fathers. Roe v. Wade has no historical linkage to any precedent but was a stretch of law that itself was a stretch. Now we read in the top papers that the USSC is afraid to rule on abortion issues due to consideration of political optics. I would imagine the Founders of our great republic are rolling over in their graves in severe indignation.
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Thought For the Day: Only Kindness Shows the Greatness of the Soul
“Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.” – Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, preacher, journalist, and activist (12 May 1802-1861)
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