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Rittenhouse
Rittenhouseby Michael DoyleWhen the cognitive dissonance begins to divergeAnd we find America struggling and on the vergeThere is no doubt that we must must ask the whyMartyrs are made but no one wants to really dieA young man, barely a … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged 2020 Election, Abyss of Sin, America, Around, Ask Why, Cabal, Cognitive Dissonance, Conspiracy, Courage, Die, Disney, Diverge, Doubt, En Masse, Eternal Vigilance, Exoneration, GoFundMe, Good Guys, Greater Injury, In the Open, Injustice, Jury, Kenosha, Kidnapper, Law Enforcement, Martyrs, Mass Action, Not Guilty, Our Nation, Out of Town, Pander, Peers, Poetry and Poems, Political Hacks, Raw Violence, Righteous Celebration, Riot Kitchen, Riots, Rittenhouse, Seattle, Sigh of Relief, Stoke the Flames, Torment, Underclass, Urban, Verdict, Verge, Weep, Win, Wrong Intention
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A Lone Bagpiper
All of us are coming out of the isolation spawned by Covid-19 into a world changed by virus and by riotous disruption. In some ways, this is good. In some ways this is bad. In all ways, this is a … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged 1918, Alleged, Authorities, Bagpiper, Change, Cheap Rumors, Clairty, Confuse, COVID-19, Destiny, Doubt, Edge, Effective Testing, Enhance, Eradication, Explanation, French Square, Game of Chance, Genetic, Head, Herd Immunity, Human Beings, Immunization, Impact, Isolation, Lack of Transparency, Leaders, Legacy, Lethal, Lie, Lone, More, Nation, Notion, Odds, Ought, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Question, Rapid Mutation, Response, Riots, Segment, Sensible, Simulation, Society, Taught, Tell the Truth, The People, Virus, Walk, World
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Thought For the Day: Nonviolence Is the Most Potent Weapon Available To Oppressed People In Their Struggle For Freedom and Justice
“(R)iots are socially destructive and self-defeating. I’m still convinced that nonviolence is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom and justice. I feel that violence will only create more social problems than they will … Continue reading
The Great Not So Great Society
American History continues through the Lyndon Baines Johnson presidency: The Great Not So Great Society by Michael Doyle LBJ entered his presidency aiming to be legendary Setting his sights on ending poverty through Great Society Johnson aimed to do this … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Affluence, Anti-War, Anxiety, Assassination, Black Vote, Blank Check, Bleed Out, Bobby Kennedy, Civil Rights, Conflict, Conservative, Counter-Culture, Disaffection, DMZ, Doctrine of Limited War, Domino Theory, Draft, Echo, Eisenshower, Emptiness, Ethics, Flaw, Fought, Franchisement, Gap, Government, Great Society, Hubert Humphry, Inadequacy, LBJ, Legendary, Legislation, Limitation, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Marriage, Martin Luther King Jr, Master, Materialism, Medicare, MLK, Nation, Nights, Nihilism, Nominee, Peace With Honor, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Politics, Poverty, Presidency, Promise, Question, Quiver, Radical Movements, Real Time, Repudiation, Result, Return, Richard Nixon, Riots, Role, Skepticism, Soldiers, Southeast Asia, Substiution, Television, Tonkin Bay Resolution, Torpedo, Up Close and Personal, Urban, Victory, Vietnam, Violence, Watts, Welfare, Wilderness
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The Death of Empires and America Marches On
American history continues through the beginning of the Great Depression. The Death of Empires and America Marches On by Michael Doyle The end of the Great War brought down empires from prior Redrawing Europe’s map by 14 Points down to … Continue reading
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Tagged 14 Points, 1920, American History, Assembly, Black Thursday, Business, Calvin Coolidge, Depression, Economy, Empire, Europe, Great Depression, Great War, Henry Cabot Lodge, Henry Ford, Herbert Hoover, Jazz Age, League of Nations, Mellon, Normalcy, Nye Commission, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Ratification, Recession, Referendum, Regulation, Riots, Silent Cal, Sovereignty, Spanish Influenza, Supply Side Economics, Tax, Veterans, Warren G Harding, Woodrow Wilson
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WordPress #Daily Prompt July 14 – Tailor
Zoot Suits were once quite the riot….
Posted in Photographs & Memories, Second Life
Tagged Daily Prompt, Passions, Riots, Tailor, Wordpress, Zoot Suit
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 