Tag Archives: Society

Na/Glo/Po/Wri/Mo #21: In Believing We Can

Posted on April 21, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo #21: In Believing We Canby Michael DoyleIn today, I see tomorrowIn today, perched as it isIn today, seated on the edgeIn today, formed by yesterdayAnswers needed to questionsAnswers in need of themselvesAnswers that go unansweredAnswers we still need to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accepting Difference, Answers, Ask Deeper, Believes, Believing We Can, Complete, Dignity, Done, Door, Edge, Extinguish, Find Our Journey, Formed, Hard Work, In Need of Themselves, In the End, Journey Is Long, Let Go of Hate, Life Will Win, Love Is the Answer, More, Na/GloPoWriMo, Offer Best Equity, Only We, Perch, Poetry and Poems, Question, Replete, Seated, Smarter, Society, Start In Belief, Stay the Course, Still Need To Find, Today, Tomorrow, Truly Grow, Truly Know, Unanswered, Vanity, Ways of Opportunity, We All Truly Belong, Yesterday | Leave a comment

On the Justice of Impeaching and Deplatforming Maxine Waters For Repetitive Incitement

Posted on April 19, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Maybe it’s “the soft bigotry of low expectations” that has afforded Maxine Waters the megaphone through which she blasts her hatred and anger spewed absurdities? I am not wise enough to know. Nor, do I know enough about her to … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Absurdities, America, Anger, Appropriate and Just, Appropriateness, Blast, BLM, Brooklyn Center, Congresswoman, Curfew, Demand Justice, Deplatform, Derek Chauvin, Disciplinary Actions, Equal Application of the Law, Expulsion, Fire Gunshots, Fracture, George Floyd, Get More Confrontational, Hateful Rhetoric, Hatred, Her Own Standards, House Minority Leader, House Rule 23 Clause 1, Impeach, Impeach and Remove, Incitement of Violence, Increase Anger and Hatred, Inflammatory Remarks, June 23 2018 Incitement, Jury Intimidation, Justice, Kevin McCarthy, Litany of Grievances, Looking For A Guilty Verdict, Low Expectations, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Maxine Waters, Megaphone, Minnesota, National Guardsmen, Numerous Racist Statements, Own Words, Passed A Line, Political Opposition, Racial Animus, Record, Reflect Creditability On the House, Repetitive Incitement, Society, Soft Bigotry, Strident Polarization, Thought For the Day, Understand, Walk Away, Write Your Congressperson and Senator | Leave a comment

The Positive and Negative Of Social Learning From Television and Other Screens

Posted on April 1, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

The Positive and Negative Contributions of Social Learning From Television and Other Screens: The case is, more often than not, made that social learning from television and other screens is largely negative. To the degree that the negative case … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: On An Introduction to Environmental Science

Posted on March 28, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Two Issues Described Related To Environmental Science Either Local or Nationwide: Of the many and varied facets of environmental science, there are at least two general areas that have have been of interest for many decades. The first of these … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged 21st Century, Al Gore, Approach Concerns and Issues, Aquaculture, Balance, Better Angels, Better Understanding, Biomes, Biosecurity, Burning Down Society, Climate Change Paradigm, Cognition, Common Blunders, Common Good, Consideration, Control, Cross-Contamination, Decades, Discharges of Effluents, Disservice, Dogmatic Positions, Doomsday Scenario, Ehrlich, Einstein, Empirical Observation, Environmental Science, Ethics of Belief, Farming, Food Sources, Foregone Conclusion, Foster Dialog, General Theory of Relativity, Global Food Security, Individualism, Life, Listen, Malthus, Manage, Marketplace of Ideas, Multiple Concerns, Multiple Sides, Not Censored, Oceans, Open Discussion, Opinion, Outlook, Polarization of Thought, Population Growth, Possibilities, Prediction, Probabilities, Problematic Nature, Pseudo-Skepticism, Public Discourse, Public Policy, Question, Reduction of Polarization, Save Society, Science, Science Is A Process, Scientific Analysis, Shout, Society, Species, Stabilize, Sustainability, Terrestrial, Thought For the Day, Trajectory, United Nations, Utopian, Valid Viewpoints, World | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: After A Shooting Spree, They Always Want To Take the Guns From the People Who Didn’t Do It

Posted on March 25, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.” – … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged After, Live, Military, Police, Shooting Spree, Society, Take Guns Away, The People, Thought For the Day, Who Didn't Do It, William S. Burroughs | 1 Comment

The Not So Cooked Goose of Dr. Seuss

Posted on March 4, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

The Not So Cooked Goose of Dr. Seussby Michael DoyleThis is not what it means to be wokeSomething inside must be truly brokeThese sinister snowflakes in reactivitySeek to search and destroy all creativityFor generations we have lived and learnedFrom lessons … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged A Thing of Notoriety, All Creativity, Anxiety, Before Me, Belief, Brave and Free, Cooked Goose, Courage, Cringers, Dear Country, Defend, Different Voice, Discerned, Dr. Seuss, Far Out of Reach, For Myself, Generations, God, Incapable, Leaving Each To Their Own, Lessons Taught, Liberty, Live For, Lived and Learned, Lost Within, Loudly Assert, Make What's Right, My Death, My Freedom, My Last Breath, Need To Live, No More Freedom, No Sense, Not the Way, Poetry and Poems, Propriety, Reactivity, Real Dignity, Real Justice, Safe Zones, Search and Destroy, Sinister Snowflakes, Society, Something Inside, The Founders, They've Made Your Choice, Thought and Speech, True Justice, Truly Broke, Truth, Vacuum, What It Means To Be Woke | Leave a comment

First Principles: The Great Desideratum In Government Is, So To Modify the Sovereignty As That It May Be Sufficiently Neutral Between Different Parts of the Society To Control One Part From Invading the Rights of Another

Posted on February 2, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“The great desideratum in Government is, so to modify the sovereignty as that it may be sufficiently neutral between different parts of the Society to controul one part from invading the rights of another, and at the same time sufficiently … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The Aim of Every Political Constitution Is, Or Ought To Be, First To Obtain For Rulers Men Who Possess Most Wisdom To Discern and Most Virtue To Pursue the Common Good of the Society

Posted on November 15, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“The aim of every political constitution is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society; and in the next place, to … Continue reading →

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I’ll Always Take Your Call

Posted on October 28, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

I’ll Always Take Your Callby Michael DoyleRipped apart deep inside my DNAFinding the scary part is the last biteWhen suddenly, I run short of what to sayAnd my wildest dreams hold me through the nightSomewhere in the geometry of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abstract, Always, Apprehensive, Beeline, Behind, Bitter Respite, Boundaries, Breath In, Breath Out, Bridge, Catch Your Fall, Chase, Condescension, Conviction, Dark Tendency, Despair, Desperate, Different Tempos, Direction, DNA, Do It AGain, Dread, Edges, Elasticity, Facts, Feeling, Finish Stong, Geomtry, Hands In Mine, Heat of It, Holding On, Hollow Comfort, Hope, Implore, Infinite, Jester, Jump, King, Less Than Clever, Letting Go, Live and Learn, Lives Lessons, Melts Away, Moments, My Love Runs Deep, Never Leave You, Nighttime, Offer, Photograph, Place, Plasticity, Poem, Poetry, Prevail, Rare, Refuse To Drown, Remember, Return, Ripped Apart, Run Short, Say, Scary Part, See Beyond, Shadows Creep In, Shriek, Silent, Silver Lining, Society, Song, Spin, Superficiality, Take Your Call, Terror, Through the Night, Unruly Mind, Waiting Out, Wildest Dreams, Worse, Wrap, Zig Zag | Leave a comment

First Principles: I Know No Safe Depository of the Ultimate Power of the Society But the People Themselves

Posted on October 21, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Control, Discretion, Enlighten, Eucation, Exercise, First Principles, Inform, Remedy, Safe Depository, Society, Take It, The People, Thomas Jefferson, Ultimate Powers, Wholesome | Leave a comment