January 10, 2017

Request: Phil Beaver works to establish opinion only when the-indisputable-facts-of-reality have not been discovered. He seeks to refine opinion by learning other people’s experiences and observations. Please use the comment box below to share facts and opinion.

Our Views:  The case for growth must have a standard, and Louisiana education from K-12 through university is a dysfunctional as can be. Many people claim a crying need for the workers we need, others contribute money to improve STEM, but many professors and administrators do all they can to advance social democracy. What a human needs is coaching so as to have civic morality and collaborate for public-integrity for the rest of his or her life.

Today’s Thought. I mean no offense to readers who love this long-standing feature. I am offended by the absence balancing appreciation for trust and confidence in the-objective-truth (I pay my subscription cost but may not always so subject myself).

“How much better to get wisdom than gold, to get insight rather than silver!” A person must earn their living to have mutual freedom and must collaborate for civic justice in order to have the liberty to pursue heartfelt hope. Some want to spend life to save a soul.

Abortion misinformation (Kocher). I agree. Abortion is a private matter rather than a religious cause or civic constraint.

2010 NOPD reform (Fecke). It seems to me Landrieu invited trouble and the federal government delivered:  nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2010/05/mayor_mitch_landrieu_seeks_fed.html . The misery and losses just keep mounting.

Rely on the Constitution (Dearden). I agree: an effective President knows the law and works within in.

Scott Wilson praises Dabadie (Online).

Informed by Dabadie's performance for EBR Parish and recommendations by the first-responders' organization, the prudent thing to do is give Dabadie a raise and the people's appreciation.

Taking back a campaign promise is a noble act of integrity---both wholeness and comprehension of the facts---given the data at hand.

Jindal ruin (Online). I never voted for Jindal and saw him as phony plying Chapter XI Machiavellianism. (See first paragraph at constitution.org/mac/prince11.htm and read it as irony.) My paraphrase is: the religion-government-partnership picks believers' pockets along with the rest of the people. Since God is in charge, only a fool would try to persuade the people to stop the tyranny.

But Jindal was nothing compared to President George W. Bush, who reported that his higher father influenced him to invade Iraq . . . we now know on a mendacity. Cost so far is $7 trillion, around 5,000 American lives, and an unspeakable number of foreign lives.

Also, 1850's Protestant ministers in the South preached Bible verses so as to condone slavery and partnered with legislators to attack the USA! Proportional to today's population, losses were equivalent to 8 million Americans! Protestants had poisoned the preamble with the false label “secular.” It is not too late to establish the civic contract in the preamble.

A civic people may end the religion-government-partnership in the USA anytime they want to stop the losses and misery. Religion is an adult private-practice that in public ruins children’s private-liberty-with-civic-morality. Kept private, all real-no-harm religions may flourish . . . in public-integrity.

Tighter Bonds (Page 1A). "Montrell Jackson, words the Baton Rouge Police officer shared on Facebook days before he was fatally shot: 'Don't let hate infect your heart.'"

"The governor was joined by Baton Rouge Mayor-President Sharon Weston-Broom, Louisiana State Police Superintendent Mike Edmonson, Wildlife and Fisheries interim Secretary Patrick Banks, Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Casey Rayborn Hicks and Baton Rouge Police Deputy Chief David Hamilton."

Why did The Advocate not recall Sheriff Sid Gautreaux and EBRP Police Chief Carl Dabadie Jr. and their contributions to Baton Rouge Security? Is it because state Rep. C. Denise Marcelle was on the scene? If so, The Advocate did not report it in writing. 

Will Ms Broome exercise her chance: "Don't let hate infect your heart."? Or will a campaign promise overrule Dabadie's great work for the people of Baton Rouge? I know what I would do: I would act for the people.

TOPS cuts. (Page 1A). Based on President F. King Alexander’s October, 2016 symposium “Moment or Movement?” it seems to me most parents should seek education for their children elsewhere no matter what the cost. IMO, LSU has fallen in with social democracy or togetherness or contemporary liberalism (nanny state assurance) or communitarianism, or socialism, or communism---which ever label you want to use for solidarity or a raised fist.
 

Meryl Streep’s folly (Page 3A). I don’t know Meghan McCain’s point but have a similar view:  Streep and others mimic Trump poorly when they try to impose their art form on his. They could reform.

Trump is acutely aware when someone attempts to use someone’s personal notoriety, perhaps their own celebrity, to gain political leverage against Trump on mendacity. He mocks the folly and the guilty do not like Trump’s style. Too bad: stick to the-objective-truth.

It seems to me that people who approach Trump with the-objective-truth receive candid response. If he has been wrong, he says so; the other party may not agree that the admission of wrong was candid, but so far, I can found ways to give Trump the benefit of the doubt.

Trump is so competitive that whatever notoriety the other party brings to the political mendacity, Trump mocks in kind. In the case of Serge Kovaleski, IMO Serge, whether on his own or on assignment, intended to entrap Trump in a sensational rebuttal no cripple should have to endure. Trump accepted the media challenge. It cannot be overlooked that a newspaper employs mendacity when it feels it can get away with it. Kovaleski is a career newspaper collaborator, regardless of any authenticity Kovaleski may possess. IMO, the media is so bad it can turn honest writers into people with no hope for integrity. (If you are a writer, think about your environmental influences.)

It would be interesting for Streep to create a movie that expresses Trump’s understanding of how newspapers destroy the integrity of writers. Streep plays a female equivalent to Trump. If she did that, I might change my mind and think she has understanding rather than folly. It would be a typical Hollywood art expression, which need not reflect the-objective-truth. She and the entire production could make millions from Phil Beaver’s impression of the Trump scene.

Cal Thomas column. Wow! Extoling Scientology as a segue to promoting Christianity. Then the conclusion: “Why not try something new?” Thomas admits to readers: he has lost his way.

Ron Faucheaux column. Begging woe often begets woe.

Stephane Grace column. What a bitter loser Ms Grace seems to be. Jeff Landry’s brand is public-integrity to Louisiana inhabitants, both those who want individual-independence and those who are attracted to the folly of someone else assuring personal, work-free equality. We still need Landry to discover that Chapter XI Machiavellianism or the religion-government-partnership is civically immoral.

Michael Gerson column. Trump ends his speeches with the promise that his administration (not a solitary man) will provide Americans safety and security. With this claim, “anyone who opposes Trump is the enemy.” Writers who cannot share Trump’s vision with readers brand themselves as enemies of the people. Think Meryl Streep and her tyranny before the Golden Globe television audience IMO.

DA Moore (Jan. 7, Page 2B). I stated that the recent performance information makes it favorable for Mayor Broome to take-back a campaign pledge and keep Carl Dabadie for his contributions to Baton Rouge success. IMO Moore responded that that would be a good outcome, and that his witness to the Mayor had been recently published by The Advocate.

Phil Beaver does not “know”. Phil trusts and is committed to the-objective-truth of which most is undiscovered and some is understood.