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Thought For the Day: Illegal Immigration Costs the Taxpayers of the United States A Lot of Money
“[Illegal immigration] costs the taxpayers of the United States a lot of money. And it’s unfair to Americans who are working every day to pay their own bills. It’s also unfair to a lot of people who have waited in … Continue reading
First Principles: 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
“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)
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Tagged Dispensation, First Princples, Forbid, Money, Pay, Private Life, Prudence, Public Moneys, Thomas Jefferson, Unexplained Projects
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First Principles: Let Every Nation Know, Whether It Wishes Us Well Or Ill, We Shall Pay Any Price, Bear Any Burden, Meet Any Hardship, Support Any Friend, Oppose Any Foe, To Assure the Survival…of Liberty
“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.” – John F. Kennedy
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Tagged Burden, Every Nation, First Principles, Foe, Friend, Hardship, John F. Kennedy, Know, Liberty, Pay, Price, Success, Survival, Well Or Ill, Wish
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Spare Me the Homilies
Spare Me the Homiliesby Michael DoyleWhen it happens thatSomeone needs to stay behindIt’s just a natural factThat it is usually my kindIt’s not thatWe are somehow not afraidIt’s just a natural factWe understand the plans madeOur aim is maybe a … Continue reading
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Tagged A Bit Crazy, Aim, Consumed, Desire, Downtrodden, Dreams, Eyes, Families, Free, Give, Given All, Happens, Higher, Homilies, Live, Live To Fight Another DAy, Love, Natural Fact, Not Afraid, Not That, Pay, Payment, Plans Made, Poetry and Poems, Price, Rejoice, Return, Safety, Say, Sorrow, Spare Me, Stay Behind, Surpass, Those Who Yet Live, Thoughts, Tomorrow, Understand, Usually My Kind
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Complexity-Simplified
Complexity Simplifiedby Michael DoyleOf all the things I have in life reservedThe right to peacefulness is deservedI have no need for people who like to cause stressAnd this is something I will readily address2024 will be a year of peace … Continue reading
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Tagged 2024, Act Right, Address, Around, Back To the Wall, Backflow, Bring Me Down, Cage-Less, Childish Games, Clear, Complexity, Conflict Free, Conscious, Court, Deserved, Destination, Distinct, Document, Don't Tread On Me, Doubt, Edge, Evidence, Eyes, Foolish, Games, Guitar, Inhumanity, Inked, Intention, Known, Last and Final Warning, Learn, Ledge, Life, Lion, Look, Mane, Mercenary Knight, Mistakes, Need, Once In Your Lifee, Owe, Pack of Lies, Pay, Peace, Peacefulness, Pick On, Poetry and Poems, Price, Profound, Push, Rarified, Reserved, Right, Road Runner, Roll, Route, Shade, Shallowness, Share, Simplified, Sin, Soul, Steer Clear, Stress, Strum, Tale, Tattoo, Time, Transparent, Trite, Tug, Tust, Vain, Vain Effort, Voice, Wasted, Wicked, Wile Y. Coyote, Wonder, World, Writing, Wrong Sort of Man, zoo
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Sparked Distraction
Sparked Distractionby Michael DoyleAll the world is extraordinaryThere is so much to seeIn every moment and all actionsThere is the spark of distractionHopefully and creativelyYour safety is found in beautyAs you go out into the world to seeAll there is … Continue reading
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Tagged 21st Century, Beauty, Belong, Best Light, Birthday Candle, Box, Breadcrumbs, Cancer, Candle Lights, Capturing Life, Clear, Comedy, Connection, Continue, Creative, Cry, Curiousity, Darkness, Death, Degree, Distance, Doubt, Dramedy, Eventuality, Every Moment, Existential, Extradordinary, Fallen Tear, Film, Final Answers, Fork, Fullest, Future, Generation, Gratitude, Grow, Heavens, Heavens Above, History, Hopeful, Imagination, Implausible, Impossible, Inspiration, Known, Last Breath, Learn, Left Behind, Letting Go, Little Smiles, Live Love, Living Gods, Lock, Look, Love, Majesty, Matters, Miarcles, Mournful Look, Nightmares, Nowhere, Once, Pain, Path of Life, Pay, Penance, Poetry and Poems, Real, Reality, Rebirthed, Records, Road, Safety, Scourge, Sensation, Shatter, Short or Long, Songs, Sorrow, Sparked Distraction, Stay, Stride, Struggles, Surreal, Take Care, Tears, Terror, There, Tomorrow, Torment, Touch, Travel, Whisper, Worthy
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The Devils We Wish We Didn’t Know
The Devils We Wish We Didn’t Knowby Michael DoyleThe NCAAWas, and is, the DevilWe knew enough to knowA scam for payNever on the levelIt was for extra coinsNot for any college bowlGraveyard memoriesDedicated to familiesThat gave their allIn the name … Continue reading
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Tagged Alive, Broken Bones, Brothers, Champions, Character, Coin, College Bowl, Concussions, Cried, Dead, Dedicated, Devil, Died, Dies, Explanation, Fame, Family, Fifty Yard Line, Football, Fortune, Game, Graveyard, Head, Human Being, Jive, Know, Lies, Loan, Organization, Pay, Played, Poetry and Poems, Rode, Sake, Scam, Spirits, Tears, The NCAA, Ton of Bricks, Tragic, True, Unseen, Wish, Worth, Wounded Voice
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Thought For the Day: There Is A Price To Pay For Speaking the Truth. There Is A Bigger Price For Living A Lie
“There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.” – Cornel West, author and philosopher (b. 2 Jun 1953) Though I disagree with many of the conclusions reached by Cornel … Continue reading
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Tagged Bigger Price, Cornel West, Lie, Living, Pay, Price, Speak, Thought For the Day, Truth
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The Wonderous Sea’s Coral Reef
The Wonderous Sea’s Coral Reefby Michael DoyleThere’s a moving declaration of loveDedicated to the beauty of Mother OceanIt is as pristine as the heavens aboveThis water planet deserves our devotionJacques Cousteau was like a father to us allSharing underwater images … Continue reading
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Tagged Any Direction, Beauty, Citizens, Clams, Clownfish and Sea Anemone, Colonial Animals, Coral Reef, Cost, Course Correction, Crown of Thorns, Declaration of Love, Devotion, Dignity, Divers, Dolphin, Dream, Drift, Dust, Ecological Balance, Endanger, Evidence, Fate, Fiji, Filter, Form, Function, Heart, Heavens Above, Human Cities, Humble, Jacques Cousteau, Keeper of Balance, Life, Limestone, Lost, Lungs and Hearts, Majesty, Mankind, Meaning, Moments of Play, Mother Ocean, Natural Alliance, Nature's Trust, Nudibranchs and Flatworms, Oasis, Pay, Plankton, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Pristine, Pulsations of Life, Scraps, Sea, Selfish Pleasure, Skeletons, Slow, Strategies, Structural Firmament, Struggle, Survival, Swim, Symbiotic Partners, Triton's Horn, Tropics, Underwater Images, Vain Price, Variable, Wander, Water Planet, Worms and Mollusks, Wounded Reef
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First Principles: 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
“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)
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Tagged Dispensation, First Principles, Forbid, Money, Pay, Private Life, Prudence, Public Moneys, Thomas Jefferson, Unexplained Projects
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 