January 12, 2017

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

Our Views:  “Three aid packages . . . two year period . . . 2005.” Thanks, The Advocate, for this 24 month “hope”.
Let’s see now. July to January: we’re 6 months into the 24 month image.
But how about arming Louisiana citizens with Wikipedia info? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Sandy#Relief_efforts . On November 1, 2012, damage by Sandy began to subside. On December 28, 2012, Congress approved $60 billion. Let’s see. Is that complete coverage in 2 months?
24 months in 2005 improve to 2 months in 2012 but regress to more than 6 in 2016: at who’s expense?
On behalf of Louisiana flood victims, I am neither a happy citizen nor a happy reader.

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

Dean just does not appreciate the entity he may be rebuking---the woe he may be begging. Without knowing the entity, I appreciate whatever-it-is.

The other day, I quoted John’s claim, about a possible statement by Jesus. John 6:39: This is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but raise them up at the last day.

I would not to try to interpret that sentence, nor would I accept John’s interpretation as anything important to me. I rely on the-objective-truth rather than opinion.

I trust each believer’s private responsibility for religious morality. Does Dean have the ability to judge that the churches today are not led by Jesus? Religious morality often conflicts with civic morality. Civic Security is the essential need people share for life. Salvation is for the afterdeath.

DOC (LeBlanc). I can’t believe LeBlanc suggests in writing that it is common for officials in his department to defy LSA-R.S.42:1119. “. . . it’s not uncommon or surprising some corrections employees followed in a relative’s footsteps.”

If LeBlanc’ statement does not get Gov. John Bel Edwards’ attention on behalf of Louisiana First . . .

Welcome help (Hart). Only a dreamer would try to address, “If their lives are precious and should be given a chance to be born, then as a society, we need to help shoulder the burden of raising and caring for these children.” I was hoping before that that you were going to hope for a faster schedule to medical marijuana, but alas, no. 

No doubt, every child should have the chance to live well, but not at the expense of everyone’s opportunity to live. Recognize that these are mutually exclusive extremes, but it is, IMO, the hypothetical you presented. Also, humankind constantly works to solve every problem every individual faces, and sometimes technology for remedy and an individual’s candle of life have unfortunately bad timing.

I contemplate such heart-rending issues from the perspective of the-indisputable-facts-of-reality or the-objective-truth (TOT). IMO, that makes me sincere rather than heartless, and I am a candidate for iterative collaboration for civic morality. I consider the life from a step back: Every viable ovum is precious and should be cared for by the mom and her mate.

Each fertile woman has the potential for about 400 viable ova during some 30 years. Ovulation, inviting conception, implantation, gestation, and delivery are her duties and responsibilities according to TOT rather than dominant opinion. Of course, technology has introduced the possibility for her to forgo the process by surrendering her ova to a lab and letting them contract for surrogacy. However, let’s put that aside.

Some churches attempt to impose on TOT the dominate opinion that “the breath of life” is delivered at conception. However, TOT informs us that oftentimes the dividing cell that results from conception does not implant in mom’s womb. Thus, a pin-sized zygote passes out of her body unnoticed. Shall we castigate her for not noticing the loss of a conception? Are a civic people obliged to invent a sensor by which she can detect a failing zygote and force its implantation? And what of the 4.4 million natural abortions that happen while 3.9 million live births occur (2014 US numbers)? Would the 4.4 double if implantation could be forced? Natural abortions are caused by biological correction of errors that would make the embryo’s future untenable. I contend that “the breath of life” is imparted when the delivered infant is prompted to breathe.

I dream of a world wherein mom’s obligations to her ova are well known and appreciated, especially by her mate. In such a world fewer couples would feel obligated by dominant opinion to risk that a child will be born into a life of misery. It is a heartless church that puts such guilt on moms, dads, and children. A civic people are guilty to the extent that they tolerate the church’s imposition of opinion. And doctors who understand are guilty for not presenting the real numbers to the public. (I do not trust the numbers I worked hard to get.)

Anyone who reads this and castigates me without considering the issues is guilty of insincerity, IMO.

Trump Conference (Page 1A). As I heard Trump, Julie Pace and AP are part of their integrity problem. 

For example, I heard live and at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAkumy7_Pbc around 18 minutes, Trump answer “If . . . “ Also, what I heard was that the DNC was hacked because they had poor software. He added, “BTW, look at what we learned from the hacking.” In my paraphrase: we learned that, through journalists, Hillary was getting debate questions beforehand. Can you imagine the media uproar that would have occurred if I, Trump, had been furnished the questions beforehand? The media are so swamped by their flood of mendacity they are having trouble reforming.

At 53:50 facing the shouting by CNN, Trump calmly repeated, “Don’t be rude.”

BTW, at 54:50, great humor in “I’ve heard Lindsey Graham is a nice guy,” but no response to the silly question posed by a reporter. Next, right away, “[BBC] another beauty.” 

At about 56:50 on war of words with intelligence community, he will have a complete report on hacking in 90 days of approval of the secretary of intelligence.

At about 60:00 facing an “if” question about Putin, he said, “It’s not just Russia.”

Journalists would do themselves a favor by boning up on the four requirements of integrity (honesty is insufficient). Regardless, the people in 97% of American counties are able to wade through media mendacity, so reform as slowly as you like, media.

Sessions unfit (Page 4A). Viewed from George Washington’s four pillars, June 8, 1783, each the NAACP, the ACLU, and the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) seem un-American. It’s a matter of opinion, not an indisputable-fact-of-reality, so a civic people can only nudge and wait for the CBC to reform. Here are Washington’s words:

There are four things, which I humbly conceive, are essential to the well being, I may even venture to say, to the existence of the United States as an Independent Power:  An indissoluble Union of the States under one Federal Head; A Sacred regard to Public Justice; The adoption of a proper Peace Establishment; and The prevalence of that pacific and friendly Disposition, among the People of the United States, which will induce them to forget their local prejudices and policies, to make those mutual concessions which are requisite to the general prosperity, and in some instances, to sacrifice their individual advantages to the interest of the Community.

Washing specified a culture of public-integrity. Some black citizens respond to Washington’s ideas, including the goals stated in the preamble to the constitution for the USA over which Washington presided, with, “Yes, but our ancestors were slaves, and therefore, these noble ideas exclude us.” In other words, we are citizens, but we do not accept the duty and responsibility of citizens. Citing the past to refute the noble ideas of this nation is an option any citizen is free to take. CBC takes that option assuming they are not begging woe. James Meredith seems to disagree.

Repeating past posts, 1966 marcher James Meredith, specified the CBC deficiency: "Citizenship . . . Duty and responsibility are . . . the part the black race has failed to pay any attention to." See bigstory.ap.org/article/5a306dbff24149cea8a84e2a88bcf97d/civil-rights-marchers-us-still-needs-address-inequality . The press, once again, shows neglect of candid talk, as in Meredith’s appeal, in their caption for the referenced article.

Anyone who may be offended by my opinions, is invited to iteratively collaborate for public-integrity, which I obviously do not own, much as I struggle for personal integrity. For example, US Rep. Cedric Richmond could publish for Louisiana how CBC addresses Meredith’s concerns within Washington’s ideal or a 2017 interpretation. He is free to ignore, of course.

The Advocate business plan (Page 6a). This article brings to mind the AMO brutality of Rahm Emanuel: “You never let a serious crisis go to waste.” The events of 2016 happened and The Advocate’s publications benefited: That’s my read on George’s boast.

IMO, Mr. George is so myopic he can’t even cite valuable work his investigators—his employees---actually did. As a fully paying subscriber since 1969 (when we moved into our first home), I want a good hometown newspaper and constantly nudge The Advocate to fill that role. So here are a couple George failures to appreciate great employees:

·         Louisiana give-away: theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_bbb73f9d-4261-59a9-bd30-0458dc1d1319.html.

·         Systematically picking both a civic peoples’ pockets and dissidents’ futures: theadvocate.com/acadiana/news/article_c92145f2-c223-11e6-a396-53f84e1bf7bd.html . This series unfortunately does not expose the religion-government-partnership in the plundering, but Louisiana citizens are aware of the worship-and-praise that is imposed on a captive people.

·         Visiting possible Alinsky-Marxist organizers (AMO) perhaps imagining the summer of 2016: theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/entertainment_life/faith/article_0267ba79-4a92-552a-aaeb-ecc5df56348a.html .

But The Advocate does not connect dots. And there are stories that are obfuscated by The Advocate. For example, Jeremiah Wright’s visit in February 2015: The Advocate readers may thank Jarvis DeBerry, nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2015/02/jeremiah_wright_tells_a_southe.html for a glimpse of Wright attacking the religion-government-partnership so as to destroy government! Is it black power that proposes to fire our police chief?

Also, the Advocate was there, but did not report F. King Alexander’s LSU Symposium “Moment or Movement”: http://wrkf.org/term/lsu#stream/0  has a snippet on one of about 20 sessions. Public policy in the USA is constrained by the constitutions for each state and the constitution for the USA, not by Mass Communications’ influence on public opinion. I shared my experience and observations at every event I attended: see cipbr.blogspot.com/2016/10/lsu-moment-or-movement.html . 

Regarding social morality failing civic morality, The Advocate is not alone. The ruin caused by Chapter XI Machiavellianism, or the religion-government-partnership has been obfuscated since it was ironically exposed in 1517, so 500 years ago. France over corrects the partnership by requiring strict secularism, disparaging a person’s inalienable duty and responsibility to privately think about his or her heartfelt concerns, which may involve religion. The preamble to the constitution for the USA is civic rather than secular and thereby positions the USA to establish civic morality in public with real-no-harm religious morality in private. But in Baton Rouge, a minister’s collective Together Baron Rouge, is granted a seat at the table with elected officials. Outrageous tyranny!

It takes a lot of work to form and express opinions such as I share above, but before Donald Trump and his 140 word independence, there was no pressure on the press to establish a business plan based on integrity. However, a civic people can demand public-integrity now and always.

Gov Edwards seems to reject Senator Kennedy’s request. (Page 7A).  Gov. Edwards impresses me that he cannot collaborate to make Louisiana citizens first in Louisiana. I wrote to my state senator and state representative my hope to see Kennedy’ request fulfilled.

Jeanie Donovan column. Rather than the facts, opinion is far more important to Donovan. The Obamacare cases I know about are terrible—three years of terror! Also the Trump administration will not hurt people. So there, Donovan: That’s my opinion.

James Gill column. I voted for Landry and like it when he decides to learn firsthand what is going on in Louisiana. I think that is what he is doing with a small squad in Gill’s turf.

Robert Samuelson column. Trump’s plan doesn’t repeat history. And Trump doesn’t resist producing products for markets; he resists production outside America for sale in America.

Creating an administration is not jawboning. Trump’s administration has the most qualified people for their respective offices, and if they don’t perform, they’ll be replaced. 

Anyone who tries to second-guess Trump is begging a dinner of past words. Samuelson seems qualified to take that risk, and he took it freely.

Kathryn Jean Lopez column. Yesterday, I was reviewing the biology of ova with MWW, who prefers planting flowers for me to maintain. (I like maintaining flowers, because in the bargain MWW listens to me enough to perceive the-objective-truth (TOT), which I lamely attempt to understand. In other words, she knows that I know that I do not know TOT.) Anyhow, the moment she understood my term “natural abortion,” and the mom’s ultimate duty to terminate her pregnancy if necessary, she said, “I understand your point: I oppose abortion for fun.”

Some girls have uncommon share of common sense and had it from the start.

Trump press dependency (1/11). ABC news responded that Trump will need them to add to his 43% approval rating. They wish he needed them! If the facts are Trump improves the lives of US citizens, the press will be more pressured toward integrity than they are now under Trump’s index finger and “No, I will not give you a question.”

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, education non-profit. See online at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com.