Tuesday, January 31, 2017

January 31, 2017




Phil Beaver works to establish opinion when the-indisputable-facts-of-reality have not been discovered. He seeks to refine his opinion by learning other people’s experiences and observations. The comment box below invites sharing facts, opinion, or concern. (I read, write, and listen to establish my opinion as I pursue the-objective-truth.)
Note:  I often connect words in a phrase with the dash in order to represent an idea. For example, frank-objectivity represents the idea of candidly expressing the-objective-truth without addressing possible error or attempting to balance the expression.

The Advocate:

Our Views: Iteratively-collaborating to establish A Civic People rather than "uniting God’s people” may help.
 
Developing a spiritual life may seem intended to provide for the spirit in the afterdeath. Preparation for afterdeath may lessen the attention to fidelity for body, mind, and person in civic life. Often, the personal person is lost to the universal spirit, which has never been disproven. In other words, life is lost to benefit the possible afterdeath. Again, the person is sacrificed to the universal soul, whatever that may be.
 
Every adult’s social morality, spiritual reality, and religious pursuits may be subordinated to willful, civic morality. Civic justice may provide the broadly-defined-civic-safety-and-security that is necessary for each person to pursue the social, spiritual, or religious preferences that may make his or her life worth living.
 
Some people belittle my writing. In this case, it may seem overboard. However, those who comprehend the above, fresh expression of my "same old song” don’t litter.


Today’s Thought. When Trump visited the Dow Hangar, he joked about being “The Person of the Year,” and asked for a show of hands who thought it should be “Man of the Year.” Most people, perhaps playing the poke at political correctness raised their hands. When he asked for “Person” voters I was one of two who raised a hand. Each human’s personhood is important to me: I know nothing about spirts and such. 
 
Regardless, I think choosing the male pronoun for Holy Spirit is part of the long-standing subjugation of women that We the Civic People of the United States should oppose.
 
I like jokes and humor, but I also like to consider reform of serious oppression: The oppression of women should have ended when they won the vote. That does not mean I condone “feminism.” Women have physics-created obligations to their viable ova, IMO.

Pipeline (Foltz). Thank you for a much needed letter with data supporting the facts.
 
“The Facts are the facts.” Often, “the facts” are in the brains of the opinionated, as writers for the press constantly exemplify. I would like to see the civic dialogue create or adopt language that has more teeth. I suggest the-indisputable-facts-of-reality. The dashes are intended both to convert the phrase into a thought and on repetition invoke the thought efficiently (avoid acronyms).
Variations can be employed. For example, the-discovered-facts-of-reality are more disputable than the-understood-facts-of-reality, which is lesser than the-indisputable-facts-of-reality. I am most interested in the-indisputable-facts-of-civic-reality. For example, a civic people do not lie so that they can communicate (borrowing an illustration used by Albert Einstein).

 
Administrative States (Anderson). The liberal-democrat goose provoked the fiscal-conservative gander. Or the Alinsky-Marxist organizer preceded the constitutional administrator.

Isn’t great (Bell). Ms. Bell, your hopes for America are expressed by your words. I certainly hope the future brings you the shame you deserve today, IMO.


I doubt you have made even one effort to befriend a Muslim as We the [Civic] People of the United States---those who have read and comprehend, trust and commit to the civic agreement stated in the preamble to the constitution for the USA. (I doubt you understand my sentence.)


Talking to a Muslim neighbor is like pushing a rope. The message perceive is: Sooner or later, Ms. Bell, you’ll submit to Allah. (Whatever that means. I have resolved my concern by taking it to mean that sooner or later Phil Beaver will die. However, I have not heard a Muslim confirm my ameliorating thought.)


I think this is the heart of the Arab conflict: Submission. It can be resolved in the USA only by iterative collaboration for civic justice according to the preamble.


Cal Thomas column. Wow! That’s twelve major points in one week. Thank you for the list.
 
Robertses column.  “. . . a Democratic opponent who failed to elicit anything,” beyond public dismay with witness before the Senate about the Secretary of State lying about Benghazi. “What difference---at this point, what difference does it make?”
It takes two liberal-democrat writers to come up with classic nonsense: “. . . face real reality now.”

Michael Gerson column.  Maybe Gerson considers me gullible. Based on my life, I would not disagree. However, I think these thoughts were great for advocates of the preamble, a civic people, to hear: “We will face challenges. We will confront hardships. But we will get the job done.”

We the People of the United States also includes dissidents, criminals, evils, and other aliens in addition to a civic people. Gerson’s in there somewhere; perhaps Gerson knows where. He may subscribe to the motto, “What difference does it make?”

Clarence Page column.  Chicago is the home town of Saul Alinsky organizers (AMO) and perhaps its modern prince, Barack Obama. Also, Obama’s Minister Jeremiah Wright of the famous speech, “don’t look to government, look to black theology.”

Also, I do not recall Page mentioning drug wars. Maybe Chicago exempts itself from civic morality.

Page 5B cartoon.  Clinton quote, “What difference does it make?”


Private help (Page 1A). Maybe first time to ask, but private offers have been tendered.


It takes a lot of work (corporate expense) to propose and nothing for government to reject. See theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/article_a452a410-f724-538d-b49b-b21f5d9e071d.html. I hope my state representatives, Claitor and Foil, are not discouraged by past failed efforts.


What’s new on the state reliability scene? Not Edwards, IMO.

I rail against taxes all the time, but I support a gas tax that cannot be spent on anything but road and bridge maintenance. Our roads are dangerous.


LSU scientist (Page 1A). Suggestion: Professor Christopher Austin’s accomplishment on DNA empowers discovery of the-indisputable-facts-of-reality, hereafter The Facts. The Facts exist, and humankind conducts the noble work to discover, comprehend, and benefit, either by technology, risk avoidance, or understanding. With each opportunity to express public thanks for research accomplishments, repeatedly use bold font to draw our attention to the name:  Professor Christopher Austin.

Sally Yates (Page 1A). Does Sally Yates hold the distinction as the first government official to hear the NY accented, “Ya fiaud?” I hope not.

Supreme opinionator (Page 1A). Of course, I know nothing. However, the fact that Neil Gorsuch has been clerk for Anthony Kennedy turns me off. Kennedy is the self-appointed lord of dignity and equality, who in gay marriage opinion ignored the dignity and equality of a child to both stay with the couple who conceived him or her and be reared by a heterosexual couple.

Quebec attack (Page 2A). It is beyond shameful that Tracey Lindeman and Bob Gillies can get through the Associated Press system the early attention to: the suspect “likes” Trump on Facebook. Both Lindeman and Gillies will encounter dishonesty in both their professional and personal lives until they learn the value of integrity. I have written about integrity since Stephen L. Carter's wholly inadequate IMO "The Insufficiency of Honesty" (February Atlantic ): integrity has .... The Atlantic Monthly; May 1996; Letters; Volume 277, No. Without integrity, understanding is impossible.

Donald Trump taught me the value of brash dishonesty to confront dishonesty and thereby express to the dishonest party his or her opportunity to offer Trump integrity and thereby receive tentative-integrity. Trump returns integrity with integrity rather than tentative-integrity; I hope.

“. . . a long simmering debate about race and religious accommodation.” Anyone who asserts that this struggle is limited to Quebec is delusional. See 7-minute video, “Shampoo Summit,” for example.

State sovereignty (Page 2A). IMO, Syria forfeits state sovereignty when its citizens flee violence and destruction. That does not mean I want to take charge of the problem beyond protecting my border from escaping aliens against the preamble to the constitution for the USA.

Iran (Page 2A). No thank you, Barack Obama and John Kerry, for befriending the enemy.

Cut two regulations for each new one (Page 6A). This makes me bullish on America’s people and future prosperity. Prosperity here means prosperity abroad.

Vote fraud (Page 8A). Phillips’ three registrations are from past residence, and two of the three are void. He voted in only his current state of residence. Nevertheless, he recommends a national ID that travels with the person, a good idea.

Boy scouts (Page 8A). Transgender psychology must be dealt with. Anyone whose early psychological influences conflict with the-indisputable-facts-of-reality must deal with those conflicts.
For example, I was reared to be Southern Baptist, contrary to my early personal preference to trust and commit to the-objective-truth of which most is undiscovered and some is understood. In my youth, I tried to believe the earth is 4,000 years old. Mom and Dad were such good providers, I tried to indoctrinate myself for five decades. Beliefs are for consenting adults rather than children.

I can never recover from my erroneous early influences, yet I have never blamed anyone beyond my own gullibility. Gullibility is the first of the eight deadly errors.



Other dialogues:

Today, someone I have known for over forty years responded to my apology for ebullience with, “I have never seen you grumpy. I mean it: it’s never happened.”


Phil Beaver does not “know”. Phil trusts and is committed to the-objective-truth of which most is undiscovered and some is understood. Phil Beaver is agent for A Civic People of the United States, a Louisiana, an education non-profit. See online at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com.

Monday, January 30, 2017

January 30, 2017



Phil Beaver works to establish opinion when the-indisputable-facts-of-reality have not been discovered. He seeks to refine his opinion by learning other people’s experiences and observations. The comment box below invites sharing facts, opinion, or concern. (I read, write, and listen to establish my opinion as I pursue the-objective-truth.)
Note:  I often connect words in a phrase with the dash in order to represent an idea. For example, frank-objectivity represents the idea of candidly expressing the-objective-truth without addressing possible error or attempting to balance the expression.

The Advocate:

Our Views:  They say “Follow the money.” But how in the world can The Advocate business-plan direct the people running The Advocate to alienate the people who pay taxes?

Take for example, Gov. John Bel Edwards’ recent deal to spend $24 million to place surveillance equipment in New Orleans. Who will sell the equipment? Who will maintain it and effectively monitor the information coming from the equipment? How many calls for police will the equipment demand and who will answer? I think that money should go to Louisiana schools.

The Advocate’s solution is to move state budget to local budgets. Same thang. All over the city we have red-light cameras taxpayers paid millions for. Who is maintaining them? Who is collecting money from them? What happened to that money? What are we doing with CATS! LSU tram! Stop wasting money in Baton Rouge!

It is past time for the State of Louisiana to stop spending $26 billion/year. That’s $26,000 million per year of which the school system needs $35 million.

Edwards is one bad dude when it comes to scare tactics to benefit the people who are getting the money, and for some reason The Advocate is right in there with him.

One other point that really galls me: The Advocate paints the picture "Over Time, Louisiana has to invest more in public education." This attitude---supporting the adults who vie for money in order to satisfy adults while putting off care for children---hurts children who are alive and well. Shame on the adults who play shell games with education funds. Shame on Gov. Edwards.

Today’s Thought. Ezra sought the law of the Lord. Dean switched to God. 

I acquired the impression I should think independently of both the old and the new.

I pursue the-objective-truth and behave according to the-discovered-and-understood-indisputable-facts. For example, the earth is like a globe and some 4.6 billion years old. Also, civic people do not lie so that they may communicate.

Dictators (McMurray). The media vie for dictatorship.
 
Mary: Sure, that's why we have freedom of the press enshrined in the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
 
To Mary:  Which press is your tyrant? I do not accept their tyranny. I have three blogs and thereby prevent the press from editing my opinion.
  
Medical insurance (O’Quin). The “two problems” I understood. However “purchase a government plan” and “bonus the employee” not so much.

How’s about this plan. People pay for routine medical services rather than insurance, and the government covers catastrophic medical expenses for every citizen.

To: Ralph Wright: Ralph, thanks for catching my oversight. How about adding to the recipe private hospitalization insurance paid by people who want it?

Contests (Hale). IMO President Trump lets the other party determine the civility of talk and intends to win on their turf. It seems to me he treats dishonesty with dishonesty and integrity with integrity. If a round or two of dishonesty reforms the other part to integrity, both parties win. I never expected to encounter such character but I hope I have----in Donald Trump.

Froma Harrop column. “The people don’t like having security taken away from them.” Only a civic people work for Security. The rest of “the people,” merely demand it.
 
Byron York column.  I was in the crowd via my TV and what impressed me most was, “We will face challenges. We will confront hardships. But we will get the job done.” Tune in, civic people; encourage and appreciate each other rather than carping away our chance for civic morality.

E. J. Dionne column.  Can you imagine the governor of California living in the-objective-truth rather than liberal-democracy?
  
EBR land deals (Page 1A). With real needs like this, how can EBRP leaders set aside money for an LSU tram?

School budget (Page 1A). I say elsewhere, shame on Gov. John Bel Edwards and Jay Dardenne. I take back my votes---both of them. Well, at least I won’t grant either of them my vote again.

Travel ban (Page 1A). IMO the ban was stated well and suffered the predicable transition problems imposed by an opposing liberal-democrat-personnel on the job.

I got caught in several events like that myself. For example, in 1978, I had to suddenly fly home because of a technology-trade embargo. Not to make little of the present pained persons.
 
“House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul said . . . “[Trump] is doing more to shut down terrorist pathways into this country than the last administration did in eight years.”
 
LSU art student (Page 1A). Blindfolded, black-garbed "Erfan Ghiasi, a Muslim" states a falsehood then asks passersby to either hug him or hit him, depending on whether he's trustworthy or not. It’s not a proposition I would entertain.
 
Yet, being a seeker, I might ask: Do you appreciate a civic-American-citizen’s commitment to the preamble to the constitution for the USA? If he needed explanation I’d give it.
 
If he answered positively, I might ask, “Do you think that eventually I, a non-Muslim will submit to Allah?” If he answered positively, I might then ask, “What does ‘submit to Allah’ mean?”
 
Depending upon his answer, I might change the subject to LSU basketball. If he wanted to return to the topic of submission, I would try to collaborate.
 
Perhaps in this context "submit" means die, which I am prepared for.
 
Canada mosque shooting (Page 2A). I thought Canada was exempt from hatred. I think it is past time for a civic people to demand an end to the wars between the Abrahamic religions or at least to exempt non-believers from the civic burden.
 
We still don’t know if the Texas mosque fire was arson.

Sanctury state (Page 3A). I support states’ rights, and if California voters want to live in a haven for illegal aliens, let them vote for it.

Immigration orders (Page 6A). I doubt the orders were carried out as expected. The new administration is encountering huge push-back from officials who are part of the liberal-democrat camp. I appreciate the White House responding as on 7A.

Murdered priest (Page 8A). With regret for the loss, I hope the law is upheld despite the priest’s expressed opinion. Priests claim statutory perks which should not be granted.
 
Other dialogues:

I was already alarmed. Now I am doubly alarmed squared.
Nevertheless, I'm glad you're not writing about what President Clinton has done since January 20.


Phil Beaver does not “know”. Phil trusts and is committed to the-objective-truth of which most is undiscovered and some is understood. Phil Beaver is agent for A Civic People of the United States, a Louisiana, an education non-profit. See online at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com.